Michael Dudley

<p>Municipal officials, real estate professionals, and neighborhood residents are struggling with the new suburban phenomenon of home abandonment.</p>

<p>Johannesburg's Ponte City, a once-exclusive whites-only address now at the center of a dangerous, abandoned part of the city, will undergo a major renovation project featuring affordable housing, with the aim of turning the neighborhood around.</p>

<p>The Onion reports on the tragic loss of two cities in a senseless pileup.</p>

<p>It's time to remove the fare box and watch how fare-free transit can transform society, writes Dave Olsen.</p>

<p>An enormous fire in Edmonton that destroyed a condo development under construction and damaged more than 70 nearby duplexes has resulted in calls to upgrade Canada's building codes.</p>