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Senate Passes Landrieu Tax Cut For Gulf Coast Homeowners

$1.1 billion tax relief amendment to housing bill would eliminate so-called "Road Home Tax," spur business investment WASHINGTON - April 11, 2008 - (RealEstateRama) —...

State Announces Residential Property Storm Mitigation Incentives

Insurance premium discounts are available in 2008 to home owners who build or retrofit a structure to comply with the requirements of the State...

Rebuilding Together and NeighborWorks® Work Together to Assist Low-Income Homeowners

WASHINGTON D.C. - Rebuilding Together, the nation’s lead nonprofit working to preserve affordable homeownership, today announced that it has partnered with NeighborWorks® America. The...

Rebuilding Together Teams with NBA for “NBA Cares All-Star Day of Service”

New Orleans - February 12, 2008 – Rebuilding Together New Orleans, a leader in the city’s post-hurricane renewal, will be hosting almost 400 NBA...

Providence Community Housing and Enterprise Commence Construction on 474 Affordable Homes for Low-Income Seniors...

$41 Million Invested Through GO Zone Tax Credits to Rehabilitate and Build Four Apartment Complexes NEW ORLEANS, Jan. 9 /PRNewswire/ -- Providence Community Housing and...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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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