Yearly Archives: 2007

New Orleans City Council Vote Creates Opportunity to Rebuild Better Affordable Housing for Lafitte/Treme...

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...

Providence Community Housing and Enterprise Break Ground at Annunciation Inn Senior Housing

$13 Million Renovation is First of 900 Apartments to be Rehabilitated for Seniors Returning to New Orleans NEW ORLEANS, Dec. 7 /PRNewswire/ -- Providence Community...

Annunciation Inn Apartments for Low-Income Seniors Breaks Ground In New Orleans’ Upper Ninth Ward

Built in 1981 in New Orleans' St. Roch neighborhood in the Upper Ninth Ward as a Housing and Urban Development Section 202 development, Annunciation...

FEMA Closes Hurricane Katrina, Rita Trailer Parks

The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) announced today that it is closing 13 trailer parks in Louisiana where victims of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita...

Louisiana Builder Producing Disaster-Resistant Modular Homes

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...

Data: U.S. Rep. Melancon Can Act to Save 628 Homes in Congressional District From...

Estimate of Number of Homeowners Who Could Save Home Based on Publicly Available Data from Center for Responsible Lending; Rep. Melancon Urged to Support...

KB Home says it plans no future investments in Louisiana

KB Home, the Los Angeles builder that became the first national homebuilder to enter the metro area after Katrina, said today that it will...

Commercial Real Estate Symposium – New Orleans, Nov. 16

The Louisiana CCIM Chapter, in partnership with Louisiana REALTORS, will present its annual Commercial Real Estate Symposium on Friday, November 16 at 8:00 am...

New Orleans Developers Announce Plans for The Royal Cosmopolitan, Louisiana’s First Condominium Hotel

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...

Local Home Sales Buck National Trend

The national housing market is at its lowest point in 20 years.  But, It's a trend Northwest Louisiana is not following. After near-record years...

Deadline to Schedule Road Home Initial Appointment Is December 1

BATON ROUGE, La., Oct. 31 /PRNewswire/ -- Applicants to The Road Home program must schedule their initial appointments by December 1, 2007, program officials...

Renter insurance becomes a requirement for some tenants

Darlene Jenkins-Armour has lived at Willow Trace Apartments in Shreveport for seven years. There and at other apartment communities that she's lived in, she's paid...

Reserve Fund Announced That Could Spur $100 Million in Home Renovations in New Orleans

Freddie Mac, City of New Orleans, LHFA Invest $4.5 Million NEW ORLEANS, Oct. 22 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Freddie Mac (NYSE: FRE), in collaboration with the Louisiana...

ISG Opens Sales Center for Algiers Crossing … New Orleans’ New Riverfront

MIAMI, Oct. 19 /PRNewswire/ -- Algiers Crossing LLC has announced the sales center opening for 1,500 residence mixed-use community on 14 acres being positioned...

FERRIDAY AND TALLULAH RECEIVE $643,000 IN GRANTS FROM HUD FOR AFFORDABLE HOUSING AND ECONOMIC...

$16.8 million in Rural Housing and Economic Development grants awarded nationwide FORT WORTH - Housing and Urban Development Secretary Alphonso Jackson today awarded $643,800 to...

Recent

T & I Committee Passes Graves’ Legislation to Improve Disaster Recovery

The House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure advanced a slate of bills today, including a bipartisan disaster relief bill authored by Reps. Garret Graves (LA-6) and Stacey Plaskett (D-V.I.). The legislation, H.R. 1311 is designed to help communities recover from disasters and increase disaster program transparency and oversight