Development
FEMA, State Funds Elevation Projects For 600 Properties
October 31, 2008 Posted by Louisiana RealEstateRama
NEW ORLEANS, LA - October 31, 2008 - (RealEstateRama) — The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), the Louisiana Recovery Authority (LRA) and the Governor’s Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness (GOHSEP) recently announced Hazard Mitigation Grant Program (HMGP) funding to elevate or reconstruct approximately 600 flood prone properties throughout the state of Louisiana.
FEMA Implements Direct Housing In Louisiana
October 30, 2008 Posted by Louisiana RealEstateRama
New Orleans, LA - October 30, 2008 - (RealEstateRama) — In response to a request from the state of Louisiana, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is offering mobile homes and park model units only to families who need continued temporary housing assistance after hurricanes Gustav and Ike in the five, State-identified priority parishes of […]
Construction Begins on Ten Homes for Lafitte Redevelopment
August 26, 2008 Posted by Enterprise
New Orleans, LA - August 21, 2008 - (RealEstateRama) — Providence Community Housing and Enterprise today celebrated the ground breaking of the Edmundite Homes, 10 wood-frame houses located in the historic Treme/Lafitte neighborhood just four blocks from the site of the former Lafitte Public Housing development.
HUD Charges Louisiana Couple With Housing Discrimination
April 22, 2008 Posted by HUD
Husband and wife accused of violating Fair Housing Act
WASHINGTON, D.C. - April 22, 2008 - (RealEstateRama) — The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development today announced it is charging a Louisiana couple with racial discrimination in connection with the sale of a privately owned townhome. HUD claims Reggie and Kimberly Collier complained to a local […]
Rebuilding Together and NeighborWorks® Work Together to Assist Low-Income Homeowners
March 28, 2008 Posted by Louisiana RealEstateRama
WASHINGTON D.C. - Rebuilding Together, the nation’s lead nonprofit working to preserve affordable homeownership, today announced that it has partnered with NeighborWorks® America.
New Orleans City Council Vote Creates Opportunity to Rebuild Better Affordable Housing for Lafitte/Treme Residents
December 21, 2007 Posted by Louisiana RealEstateRama
Providence Community Housing and Enterprise Help Build Community’s Vision for Lafitte
NEW ORLEANS, Dec. 21 /PRNewswire/ — Yesterday, the New Orleans City Council voted unanimously in favor of proceeding with the rebuilding process of several public housing developments in New Orleans.
Providence Community Housing and Enterprise Break Ground at Annunciation Inn Senior Housing
December 7, 2007 Posted by Louisiana RealEstateRama
$13 Million Renovation is First of 900 Apartments to be Rehabilitated for Seniors Returning to New Orleans
NEW ORLEANS, Dec. 7 /PRNewswire/ — Providence Community Housing and Enterprise today announced the groundbreaking for the rehabilitation of Annunciation Inn, a complex of 106 apartments for low-income seniors age 62 or older in the St. Roch neighborhood in […]
Annunciation Inn Apartments for Low-Income Seniors Breaks Ground In New Orleans’ Upper Ninth Ward
December 5, 2007 Posted by Louisiana RealEstateRama
Built in 1981 in New Orleans’ St. Roch neighborhood in the Upper Ninth Ward as a Housing and Urban Development Section 202 development, Annunciation Inn is a five-story, 106 unit apartment complex for seniors age 62 or older who earn less than 50 percent of the area median income.
Louisiana Builder Producing Disaster-Resistant Modular Homes
November 29, 2007 Posted by Louisiana RealEstateRama
ST. MARTINVILLE, La., Nov. 29 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Louisiana System Built Homes announced Wednesday that its modular homes are being built to the Fortified…for safer living(R) standard.
KB Home says it plans no future investments in Louisiana
November 14, 2007 Posted by Louisiana RealEstateRama
KB Home, the Los Angeles builder that became the first national homebuilder to enter the metro area after Katrina, said today that it will not make any future investment in the state. The company will complete the housing projects it already has underway within about seven months.
New Orleans Developers Announce Plans for The Royal Cosmopolitan, Louisiana’s First Condominium Hotel
November 8, 2007 Posted by Louisiana RealEstateRama
Multi-Million Dollar Project Creates Over 600 New Jobs in New Orleans Post Katrina
Sheila C. Johnson’s Salamander Hospitality Named Management Company for New Luxury Property in French Quarter