Apartment City

Two U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development top management representatives from the Birmingham, Ala., field office spent Tuesday afternoon listening to residents’ concerns at a Phenix City low - income apartment complex . Their site visit to Stonewood Apartments off 28th Avenue was sparked by a video posted to YouTube last month that shows a former resident manager berating , cursing and threatening to evict a handicapped tenant who was complaining about a faulty refrigerator. HUD Program Center Director Donna Crane and Chief Project Manager for Multifamily Housing Jalon Rush - Carter began meeting with residents during the lunch hour. They declined to comment, but said this was not a scheduled visit. The HUD representatives referred all questions to the Birmingham office , which did not respond Tuesday to an email seeking comment . The HUD investigation into the management of Stonewood, which has 50 federally- subsidized serving elderly and handicapped residents , ...

Kids in low- income neighborhoods tend to change schools more often than their peers. And studies show that can have a detrimental effect on their education. So this past year, one public school in Atlanta tried to break the trend — by providing families with lawyers. At Thomasville Heights Elementary School , in southeast Atlanta , Christal Reynolds and Ayanna Jones-Lightsy have just started their day. Reynolds, a community advocate, is already on the phone. She’s talking to a parent who needs her apartment windows replaced . “If you can today, call that repair line,” she said. “And please ask for a confirmation number.” Meanwhile, Jones-Lightsy, an attorney, pulls a stack of documents out of a file cabinet. She said, they’re apartment building inspections acquired through an open records request . “We requested a lot to go back and do comparisons,” Jones-Lightsy said, “what they claimed has been fixed and may not have been fixed, and what has actually been fixed.” Jones-Lightsy a...

NASHVILLE, TN (WSMV) - A Channel 4 I- Team investigation found the out-of-state landlord of a Nashville apartment complex earned $1,023,126 despite repeated code violations , including a caved-in ceiling and sewage leaks. Sheree McLaurin showed the Channel 4 I-Team photos of her ceiling caving in and the ripped-up kitchen floor in her apartment at the Riverchase Apartments complex in east Nashville . "It was horrible. It was horrible," McLaurin said. Danielle Nix also showed us photos of her old apartment at Riverchase, including how her ceiling was peeling apart and damage in her bathtub. "It was very deplorable conditions," Nix said. A Channel 4 I- Team investigation found the Riverchase complex received 18 code violations in the last five years. Among the violations city inspectors cited were sewage leaks, holes in the roof and a caved-in ceiling. And a city investigation is still ongoing into a suspected electrical fire in December 2013, which started w...

FARMINGDALE, NY - The Nassau County Industrial Development Agency (IDA) recently approved an economic compact that will assist a developer in building an apartment complex in Farmingdale for persons 55 years of age or older. “This project will further the redevelopment efforts of the Village of Farmingdale as its works with its master plan to revive its downtown and will create new, much- needed housing options for seniors,” County Executive Edward Mangano . The compact, approved by the IDA at its Aug. 16 meeting, will assist Ronkonkoma- based Carlyle Building LLC in constructing a 50,497-square foot, 3-1⁄2- story apartment building on vacant land at 776-780 Fulton Street. The $7.9 million project would have 24 units, three one-bedroom apartments and 21 two-bedroom apartments. Designated as a “Housing for Older Persons” project in accordance with the Fair Housing Act , the development will only be occupied by persons 55 years of age or older. In addition, three of the units will ...

Alyssa Mulliger Staff Writer @AMulligerSHJ Spartanburg native Tamela Lyles remembers the exact date she moved into unit No. 310 at Oakview Apartments in the city’s Northside neighborhood. It was Jan. 23, 2004, and she was 19 years old. Lyles lived in the 800-square-foot, two-bedroom apartment with her three children. The family experienced good and bad times at Oakview, keeping mostly to themselves except for associating with some residents a few doors down, Lyles said. Oakview's residents are gone now — the city began demolishing the units last week to make way for the new Dr. T.K. Gregg Community Center . While some former residents say the apartments provided a needed home, they also say moving has brought welcome changes and opened up a new life to them. Built in the late 1940s and early 1950s along Howard Street, the federally subsidized, low- income apartments lacked central air conditioning and had tiled floors and cinder block walls . Over the ...

The housing market got so bad Pardee Homes mothballed its 660- home Natomas project in early November. But just down the block, beyond the builder’s vacant model homes , construction is already under way on its Willow Glen Apartment complex . Pardee is going forward with plans to finish the 135- unit apartment complex at its Natomas site to meet affordable housing requirements . The financing of Willow Glen Apartments was complete Sept. 27 and building permits issued on Dec. 11 by the City of Sacramento. While the builder has a two-year deadline to complete the low- income housing project , inclusionary housing rules require the apartments be done before all the market rate homes are complete. Although market conditions led to the single- family home project ’s temporary (?) demise, officials from apartment management company , Chelsea, do not expect the slowdown to have a negative impact on Willow Glen. In fact, Chelsea representatives plan to visit the area this spring to b...

Damonte Ranch area is a sign of the city's need for housing in Reno, Nev. The recent influx of new workers combined with near-zero residential development during the recession gave birth to a classic supply-and-demand scenario that saw the cost of housing skyrocket in the Biggest Little City." title="In this March 24, 2017 photo shows a new apartment complex in the Damonte Ranch area is a sign of the city's need for housing in Reno, Nev. The recent influx of new workers combined with near-zero residential development during the recession gave birth to a classic supply-and-demand scenario that saw the cost of housing skyrocket in the Biggest Little City." src="src" /> In this March 24, 2017 photo shows a new apartment complex in the Damonte Ranch area is a sign of the city's need for housing in Reno, Nev. The recent influx of new workers combined with near-zero residential development during the recession gave birth to a classic supply-a...

Centre Street Partners , which is comprised of three local companies — The Community Builders, Jamaica Plain Neighborhood Development Corporation and Urban Edge, have been selected to begin the restoration of the Mildred C. Hailey public housing apartments . Hailey Apartments , Wednesday, May 18, 2016." width="771" height="518" class="size-large wp-image-19570" /> Richard Heath Dedication of Bromley Heath as Mildred C. Hailey Apartments , Wednesday, May 18, 2016. In February the Boston Housing Authority (BHA) announced they were seeking a private developer to renovate the Jackson Square apartment complex into a mixed- income community , with a commitment to preserve all of the existing affordable housing units . “In order to meet the housing needs of all of our residents, we must think creatively to preserve our existing affordable housing stock , while developing new housing,” said Mayor Martin Walsh via a press release on August 8th. “I am pl...

Apartment department: Officials with ceremonial scissors gathered Monday to cut the ribbon at the 252- unit Costa Mariposa apartment complex in Texas City. The ceremony marked the official opening of the 7555 Medical Center Drive complex developed by San Antonio-based The NRP Group. The complex is the first affordable multifamily development completed in the county since Hurricane Ike struck two years ago. Because it targets low- and moderate- income people Costa Mariposa was awarded post- Ike stimulus funds from the Tax Credit Assistance Program administered by the Texas Department of Housing & Community Affairs . The department issued $14 million in tax exempt bonds in addition to $8.5 million in tax credits to the developers. The department also awarded the project $3 million from a federal program designed to expand the supply of decent affordable housing for moderate- to low- income families and individuals. Costa Mariposa received another $2.5 million from the T...

The Tapiz at Mariposa apartment project , part of Denver Housing Authority ’s Mariposa District redevelopment project in the Alma Lincoln Park neighborhood . (Kevin J. Beaty/Denverite) People who are now happy to call the Mariposa District home would have tried to avoid the area in the not so distant past. “The projects came in here in 1952,” said Bob Cordova, a resident at the Tapiz at Mariposa. “This was the meanest goddamn area of Denver growing up, and it only got worse.” Cordova said he moved to the 100-unit Tapiz apartment building not long after the eight- story senior housing project was completed in 2011. “It feels safe in the area now,” Cordova said. The Tapiz was the first of eight redevelopment phases that Denver Housing Authority undertook to demolish and replace its 250- unit South Lincoln Park Homes . Several residents refer to the former complex as “the projects.” South Lincoln Homes complex along Navajo Street before they were demolished for the Mariposa Distr...