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City treating Queens businesses like ‘their own ATM,' de Blasio says
Richmond Hill :: GA :: USA | 3 months ago
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Courtesy of Public Advocate's office Public Advocate Bill de Blasio outlines his latest report during a news conference in Richmond Hill, Queens, on Monday. De Blasio said businesses in boroughs outside of Manhattan are disproportionately hit with
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Greensboro waffles on blighted homes
Greensboro :: NC :: USA | 6 months ago
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On a recent gloomy Monday morning, Brian Higgins loaded Councilwoman Nancy Vaughan and another visitor into his white sedan for a tour around the neighborhood he loves. He didn't have to drive far to show them the trouble with Glenwood. On the next
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Greensboro's housing laws don't always protect
Greensboro :: NC :: USA | 7 months ago
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The little white house with the maroon shutters on Glenwood Avenue seemed like an ideal home for a family of five when the Mendezes moved in last June...It looked very pretty, husband and father Juan Carlos Mendez Sr. said through an translator.
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Vancouver artists getting the boot in city’s aggressive real-estate market
Vancouver :: Canada | over 1 year ago
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Artist Jim Carrico stands in the art space he rents out at 154 West Hastings in Vancouver, Oct. 3, 2011. From Tuesday's Globe and Mail Published Tuesday, Oct. 04, 2011 8:54PM EDT Last updated Tuesday, Oct. 04, 2011 9:00PM EDT Vancouver has more
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Hutchinson housing: Rentals a focus of concern
Seattle :: WA :: USA | almost 2 years ago
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She stapled plastic around the inside of the windows to keep rain, wind and insects out. For a couple of months, the Postal Service wouldn't deliver mail because there was a hole in the porch floor. There was a thermostat on the living room wall, but
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Saddleback Inn fights demolition order
Santa Ana :: CA :: USA | almost 2 years ago
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ANA Why has the once-popular Saddleback Inn been allowed to sit vacant , allegedly a magnet for vagrants and prostitutes, for several years while its owner pays $13,000 a month in rent on the land? During a hearing this week on whether the fire-
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French students selling crepes flee city inspectors
Shanghai :: China | almost 2 years ago
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One student took a snapshot and posted it on the Internet, making the two students immediately famous online. When French students meet the city inspectors" on www.renren.com, a social networking website popular with overseas Chinese students and new
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Progress, but Prospect Towers fix isn't complete
Hackensack :: NJ :: USA | 2 years ago
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More tenants have moved back into the 18-story Prospect Towers apartment complex while construction workers continue to repair the underground parking garage that partially collapsed last summer. Marty McKenna, spokesman for Equity Residential, which
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Wichita neighbors' long-term feud builds after signs
Wichita :: KS :: USA | over 2 years ago
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The Wichita Eagle A bitter and surreal feud among families at one corner of Wichita's east-side College Hill neighborhood has raised questions about blight, tolerance, common courtesy and freedom of speech. The years-long battle drew attention from
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Contractor gets home confinement in bribery case
Chicago :: IL :: USA | over 2 years ago
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Padraig Gravin, 33, who admitted paying out bribes while working as a project manager for a Chicago developer, was in tears as he left U.S. District Judge David Coar's courtroom with his wife and two friends...Gravin's attorney, Michael Clancy, said
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