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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...

The Back-to-School Investment

School has started across Louisiana, and when students first walked into their new classrooms, chances are things looked pretty much the same as when...

PAR Releases “Guide to the Proposed Constitutional Amendments”

The Public Affairs Research Council of Louisiana (PAR) today released its “Guide to the Proposed Constitutional Amendments” for the October 20, 2007, ballot. The...

Increased property assessments shock homeowners

Phone lines lit up the second and fourth floors of City Hall Monday as frazzled homeowners across New Orleans started to receive unwelcome letters...

Property reassessments steam N.O. homeowners

Editor’s note: Moving Forward is the first of a two-part series on how New Orleans is recovering from Hurricane Katrina as the two-year anniversary...

Neil Erwin: LSUS to host conference on growth

On Friday, Aug. 24, LSUS will host a timely and first-ever conference to organize North Louisiana around some critical growth management issues, centered on...

Millage revival may raise taxes

SELA 5-mill tax was waived after storm Property owners in Jefferson Parish could see an increase in their tax bills this fall should the Parish...

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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