BAC Locals Restore Brickwork at HIT-Financed Project in New York

Members of two Bricklayers local unions in New York City are performing scheduled façade restoration work at the HIT-financed Big Six Towers in Queens, New York.

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National Housing Headlines
08-19-08

County Plans Fresh Approach to Homelessness

The leaders who help homeless people in Pierce County have reworked their approach. Over the past three years, they have worked toward the Bush administration's goal of eliminating homelessness, in part by getting people into housing, then getting th...

08-19-08

No 'Bubble' for Homeless

The rising cost of gasoline and the bursting of the ''housing bubble'' make these troubling economic times. There is a group among us, however, whose housing bubble burst a long time ago. Each night, some 100,000 or more of our brothers and sisters i...

08-19-08

Facing a Tide of Rents on the Rise

Los Angeles could lose thousands of affordable apartments in the next five years, as contracts that require building owners to rent to low-income tenants expire on more than 14,000 units. City housing officials can't predict how many units ultimately...

08-19-08

Valassis Data Aids in Rebuilding New Orleans Neighborhoods

LIVONIA, Mich., Aug. 18 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Valassis(NYSE:VCI), one of the nation's leading media and marketing services companies, has entered into a partnership with the Greater New Orleans Community Data Center (GNOCDC), a nonprofit agency, t...

08-19-08

HUD Awards $19.3 Million in HIV/AIDS Housing Grants to 18 Programs

The U.S. Department of Housing & Urban Development issued the following press release: They are extremely low-income, living with HIV/AIDS and at high risk of homelessness. Today, more than 1,100 persons and their families will find a stable home, an...

08-19-08

Housing Programs Receive Grant

Aug. 15—MERCER, Pa. — Mercer County Commissioners awarded $194,800 from the county's Affordable Housing Fund to two local projects Thursday....

08-19-08

Foreclosures Rev Up SoCal Home Sales

SAN DIEGO Southern California home sales surged to a 16-month high in July as prices kept falling and bargain-hunters snapped up foreclosed properties, a research firm said Monday....

08-19-08

Enterprise Community Grants Will Help Agency Extend Fundraising

Aug. 15—The Kaleidoscope youth arts program recently received a grant that allowed it to extend the deadline for its Big Give Challenge fundraiser. The program received an enterprise community grant in July from the Bowling Green Enterprise Community...

08-19-08

Fishy Second-Home Loans Hit Massachusetts City

Greetings from Dorchester, the nation's new vacation hotspot. More than a dozen condos, many in abandoned or distressed buildings, have sold at sky-high prices to buyers'' using mortgages designed for vacation homes, according to a local housing rese...

08-19-08

Legislative Build 2008 Has Lawmakers 'Working' in Their Districts

LANSING, Mich., Aug. 18 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — On Tues., Aug. 19, legislators from across Michigan will pound hammers, wield paint brushes or plant trees as part of Legislative Build 2008 Celebration Day. The event is the culmination of a summer-l...

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