Louisiana RealEstateRama

NEW ORLEANS, LA - December 26, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- The weather forecast indicates the temperature or wind chill factor in New Orleans is expected to fall to 35 degrees or below overnight on Tuesday, December 24 and Wednesday, December 25, 2013. All citizens should take appropriate precautions to protect themselves from the potentially dangerous effects of this weather

WASHINGTON, D.C. - December 11, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- Insurance Commissioner Jim Donelon held a press conference this morning to announce a milestone reached by Louisiana Citizens Property Insurance Corporation (Citizens) and also reminded property insurance policyholders that the clock is ticking on the deadline to claim a rebate for the Citizens Assessment. After December 31, 2013, policyholders will no longer be able to claim the 2009 Citizens assessment rebate. Nearly $59 million in rebates for 2009 remains unclaimed by property owners in Louisiana.

NEW ORLEANS, LA - December 6, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- On Friday, December 13, 2013, the City of New Orleans will auction five City-owned properties in the City Hall Council Chambers at 10:00 a.m. The Department of Property Management through the Division of Real Estate and Records will conduct the auction. Registration begins at 9:00 a.m

WASHINGTON - December 6, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- U.S. Senator Mary L. Landrieu, D-La., chair of the Senate Homeland Security Appropriations Subcommittee, and New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu today announced $5.4 million in FEMA Public Assistance Grants to replace water main segments in two New Orleans neighborhoods. Water mains in the two neighborhoods, Holy Cross and Lakeshore - Lake Vista, were damaged in Hurricane Katrina

NEW ORLEANS, LA - November 27, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- The weather forecast indicates the temperature or wind chill factor in New Orleans is expected to fall to 35 degrees or below overnight on Wednesday, November 27 and Thursday, November 28, 2013. All citizens should take appropriate precautions to protect themselves from the potentially dangerous effects of this weather.

WASHINGTON - November 20, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- Today, at the request of Congressman Bill Cassidy, M.D. and members of the Congressional Home Protection Caucus, the House Financial Services Committee held a hearing on the National Flood Insurance Program. Dr. Cassidy released the following statement on the hearing

WASHINGTON, D.C. - November 19, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- U.S. Senator Mary L. Landrieu, D-La., chair of the Senate Homeland Security Appropriations Subcommittee, today announced $5.6 million to reconstruct a residential building at the Alexander Milne Home for Women in St. Tammany Parish

NEW ORLEANS, LA - November 18, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- On Friday, December 13, the City of New Orleans will auction five City-owned properties in the City Hall Council Chambers at 10:00 a.m. The Department of Property Management through the Division of Real Estate and Records will conduct the auction. Registration begins at 9:00 a.m.

NEW ORLEANS, LA - November 7, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- Today, Mayor Mitch Landrieu announced that the City of New Orleans’ $52.3 million “soft second” mortgage homebuyer assistance initiative’ Direct Homebuyer Assistance Program has now issued 500 commitments totaling $27,466,430.14. In total, 437 home purchases by first time homebuyers have been completed through the success of the City’s soft second mortgage program.

NEW ORLEANS, LA - October 22, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- Today, New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu was joined by HUD Secretary Shaun Donovan, the Housing Authority of New Orleans (HANO), and City and State officials to commemorate the ground breaking of the redevelopment of the Iberville Housing Development and to launch the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Choice Neighborhoods Initiative (CNI). Iberville was originally constructed in 1941 and is New Orleans’ last standing conventional public housing development

NEW ORLEANS, LA - October 21, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- Today, Mayor Mitch Landrieu, along with Federal, state and local officials, will participate in a groundbreaking for the redevelopment of the Iberville Housing Development.

WASHINGTON, D.C. - October 1, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- The Justice Department today announced that it has filed a lawsuit alleging that the Housing Authority for the City of Ruston, La., has engaged in a pattern or practice of discrimination against African-American tenants, in violation of the federal Fair Housing Act. The Ruston Housing Authority is a public housing authority that provides housing for persons of low income in Ruston. Currently, the Ruston Housing Authority owns and maintains five housing complexes in Ruston.

WASHINGTON, D.C. - September 27, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- U.S. Senator Mary L. Landrieu, D-La., met with representatives of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce to discuss the importance of fixing the flawed Biggert-Waters Flood Insurance Reform Act of 2012 and ask the Chamber to join the bipartisan effort to make flood insurance affordable for homeowners and businesses.

BATON ROUGE - September 27, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- Today, Governor Bobby Jindal and IBM Senior Vice President Colleen Arnold joined other leaders to break ground on the $55 million urban development in downtown Baton Rouge that will be home to the new IBM Services Center: Baton Rouge upon its completion in mid-2015. The project will create 800 new direct jobs, and LED estimates the project will result in an additional 542 new indirect jobs, for a total of more than 1,300 new permanent jobs in the Capital Region.

NEW ORLEANS, LA - September 25, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- Today, the City of New Orleans and the planning team for the Livable Claiborne Communities Revitalization Study announced the final round of community meetings to discuss the projected impacts and opportunities of future redevelopment scenarios for the Claiborne Avenue Corridor and surrounding neighborhoods.