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Taking Down the Walls Around Public Housing

6 min read

Public housing has come a long way since Liberty Square was built in the late 1930s in Miami.

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Amazon Dives into Affordable Housing

6 min read

There is going to be a lot going on at 192 Shoreline, a new affordable housing development in the Washington community of Shoreline, in the northern suburbs of Seattle.

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Transfiguration Place Apartments

5 min read

A collaboration between the City and Archdiocese of Detroit featuring an extensive consultation with area residents has resulted in the redevelopment of an old, vacant Catholic school building into 19 affordable housing units by Cinnaire Solutions and Ethos Development Partners. 

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Friars Court Apartments

5 min read

The emptying out of urban offices due to the pandemic has allowed many workers to relocate farther away from work, making housing in city suburbs even less affordable than usual. The town of Hudson, NH, a suburb of Boston, is one of them. 

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Sage at Folsom

6 min read

Sage at Folsom—a 55-and-older affordable development being built in Folsom near Sacramento—will hopefully be part of a new model of senior housing for USA Properties Fund.

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The Sibley Building in Rochester, NY

7 min read

With the opening of a third phase of housing and a giant marketplace and food court modeled on Boston’s historic Fanueil Hall and New York’s Chelsea Market, an epic mixed-income, mixed-use historic development is nearing completion in Rochester, NY, after 12 years of creative and complicated work.

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The Commons at South Cumminsville

6 min read

Affordable housing is well-known for needing multiple funders to make developments viable. But according to Department of Housing and Urban Development Secretary Marcia Fudge, effective collaboration extends beyond funding to operations as well.

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Properties in New Mexico

6 min read

One of the challenges of housing finance in rural areas is that properties are so spread out, it sometimes is hard to achieve the kind of numbers you need to make a project work.

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Courthouse Lofts in Worcester, MA

7 min read

Not many 19th century courthouses get turned into 118 units of multifamily rental housing.

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Harborwalk in Boston

5 min read

More and more, developers and architects are having to pay attention to climate change, especially when building anything near water.

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Miriam Apartments in Chicago

6 min read

Fifteen years ago, residents of the historic Miriam Apartments in Chicago got together to create a grand mosaic, a bright and beautiful therapeutic work of art that symbolized the positive aspects of what living there meant to them.

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Prospect Yard In Cleveland

6 min read

The Stuyvesant Motor Co. building in downtown Cleveland is a landmark structure from the city’s manufacturing heyday but had also been a decaying eyesore for decades.

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