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.

WASHINGTON, D.C. - November 6, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) today approved several disaster recovery plans throughout the State of Louisiana totaling $91.7 million to help local communities to recover from Hurricane Isaac in August of 2012. These disaster plans will rely on grants provided earlier this year through HUD’s Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) 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.

HORNBECK - September 24, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- Today, Governor Bobby Jindal announced that the City of Hornbeck has been approved for a $395,000 loan for water system infrastructure improvements from the state Department of Environmental Quality Clean Water State Revolving Fund.

MANSURA - September 23, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- Today, Governor Bobby Jindal announced that the Town of Mansura has been approved for a $1.01 million loan for water system infrastructure improvements from the state Department of Environmental Quality Clean Water State Revolving Fund

NEW ORLEANS, LA - September 16, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- TOMORROW, September 16, 2013, Mayor Mitch Landrieu, City and State officials will join The Domain Companies for a ground breaking ceremony on the first phase of the South Market District mixed-use transit oriented development. The Paramount, a $48.4 million investment project, will occupy a full block bordered by Girod, Lafatyette, O’Keefe and Rampart streets

Washington, DC - September 13, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- Congressman Charles W. Boustany, Jr., M.D., (R-South Louisiana) issued the following statement after supporting legislation H.R. 3013, the Home Protection Act of 2013, seeking to keep flood insurance rates affordable for the residents of South Louisiana

NEW ORLEANS, LA - September 9, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- Today, the City announced it will hold an online tax title sale as part of its continuing efforts to collect delinquent real estate taxes. The online auction will take place September 10-12, 2013 from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m.

NEW ORLEANS, LA - September 5, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- Today, Mayor Mitch Landrieu announced the successful placement of 244 chronically homeless and vulnerable homeless individuals in just 100 days as part of the 200 Homes in 100 Days Campaign. From May 24 to September 1, 2013, the City advanced the campaign in cooperation with UNITY of Greater New Orleans, Southeast Louisiana Veterans Health Care System, State of Louisiana, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development New Orleans Field Office, and 60 partner agencies and homeless service providers that make up the Continuum of Care. The campaign addresses the needs of those who have been homeless for more than one year or who have experienced four episodes of being homeless in the past three years to follow on the Obama Administration’s goal of ending chronic homelessness nationwide by 2015