Housing

A majority of people inquiring about a home loan receive equal treatment but there is still room for improvement in the number of minorities facing discrimination by mortgage lending institutions, according to a new report released by HUD.

May 3, 2002 - HUD News

New urbanist-looking courtyard apartment complexes are being revived in Southern California.

April 30, 2002 - The Los Angeles Times

According to the Census Bureau, San Diego County's population growth was fueled largely by new babies. Census figures suggest that number of people moving out is higher than the number of people moving in but some experts are skeptical.

April 30, 2002 - The San Diego Union-Tribune

Development Magazine compares two similar projects -- one in the suburbs, the other cose to the CBD. Which has more risk?

April 30, 2002 - NAIOP Development Magazine

Can the Stapelton project in Denver, CO. -- the largest urban development in the country -- be a "poster child for smart growth?"

April 29, 2002 - CNN

Rob Reiner and Robert Pregulman say the Ahmanson Ranch project, promoted as a "Smart Growth" solution to Southern California's affordable housing crisis, is just "classic urban sprawl" and is neither affordable nor will it solve the area's housing crisis.

April 29, 2002 - The Seattle Times

Long Islanders begin to rethink historically exclusionary zoning as a growing number of residents and businesses suffer it's consequences.

April 26, 2002 - The New York Times

New home sales fall 3.1 percent in March.

April 25, 2002 - The Boston Globe

Writer Peter King walks along Los Angeles' midsection to see what's changed in the decade since L.A.'s riots.

April 22, 2002 - The Los Angeles Times

This front page Wall Street Journal article features a glimpse into the infighting that has arisen as a result of the over-malling of America.

April 20, 2002 - Wall St. Journal

Council members back incusionary housing and declare housing emergency.

April 18, 2002 - The San Diego Union-Tribune

Nonprofit developers are building the larger apartments sought by low-income tenants, but not enough to meet the demand.

April 17, 2002 - The Los Angeles Times

Eight buildings in downtown Buffalo, NY, are being converted into apartments and developers have plans for other similar projects.

April 17, 2002 - The Buffalo News

Cities that encouraged go-go construction of power centers at major intersections are seeing their policies come back to bite them.

April 17, 2002 - The Arizona Republic

San Diego's elected leaders are working to solve the crisis that has thousands of San Diegans finding it increasingly difficult to pay the rent, let alone purchase a home, in one of the least affordable markets in the nation.

April 16, 2002 - The San Diego Union-Tribune

Century City, CA, began in 1959 as a 'centers plan.' Work, live, eat and play in the same community. Now it is changing.

April 16, 2002 - The Los Angeles Times

The Regency Housing Group has quietly made itself one of the largest builders of affordable apartments in the country since its founding seven years ago.

April 16, 2002 - The News & Observer

The age of the "master builder" has been replaced with a new "planning democracy."

April 15, 2002 - The New York Times

The San Antonio Development Agency and Solar San Antonio have partnered to create a community in the spirit of recently enacted city and state laws that encourage higher-density housing in more energy efficient, nonpolluting urban environments.

April 14, 2002 - San Antonio Express-News

The Town of Freeport, Maine approved an ordinance requiring developers to custer homes and preserve open space.

April 13, 2002 - Portland Press Herald