More than 500 of Broward County‘s powerful women will be picking up hammers and power tools over the next five months to help build three Habitat for Humanity homes in Oakland Park. The women are building the homes with the Taylor, Myers and Anderson families as part of Habitat for Humanity of Broward’s “Women Build” [...]

The Homestead Housing Authority board should be disbanded and the executive director fired, according to a blistering letter written by one board member. Board member Lois Jones laid out those recommendations in a letter to one of the housing authority’s federal funding agencies, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, or HUD. She also [...]

WASHINGTON, Feb. 22 (UPI) — Existing U.S. home sales rose in January and unsold inventories declined, the National Association of Realtors said Wednesday. The second consecutive month of declining inventories means a reduced supply of homes in the market, which is an indication that home prices could rise. Prices have remained low since the December [...]

NEW YORK (Dow Jones)–Alexandria Real Estate Equities Inc. (ARE), a real estate investment trust, plans to issue $500 million of debt in the U.S. …

Stonington – A local developer is seeking approval from the Planning and Zoning Commission to build a $6.5 million affordable housing project on Route 1 in Pawcatuck, just west of Rutman’s Wayside Furniture. The Spruce Meadows project calls for 44 apartments and a community building on a 3-acre site at 100-102 South Broad St. TFB3 [...]

U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Secretary Shaun Donovan on Friday awarded public housing authorities in Wisconsin more than $15 million to be used to make major large-scale improvements to their public housing units. The grants are provided through HUD’s Capital Fund Program, which provides annual funding to all public housing authorities to build, [...]

<!–Saxotech Paragraph Count: 17–> Low prices and plenty of inventory contributed to homebuyers finding good deals around the state in January. The Wisconsin Realtors Association reported Monday that sales of existing homes across the state showed a 10.8 percent improvement when compared to the same month last year. For 2011, Wisconsin recorded 51,512 sales of [...]