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” [...]

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 [...]

An affordable housing project that’s been in the works for years got under way yesterday with the demolition of two homes on Great Road. Two more houses, on Ford Road and Greenwood Road, are scheduled to be razed today, said Sudbury Housing Authority Executive Director Jo-Ann Howe. All four buildings will be replaced with modular [...]

Jonathan Rose, company president Jonathan Rose Companies said it entered a deal with Citigroup to launch a $75 million affordable housing fund — the largest in the history of the development firm — which will focus on redeveloping and building new properties in New Jersey, Connecticut and Washington D.C. Jonathan Rose, president of the Manhattan-based [...]

NEW YORK, Feb 21, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) – Citi Community Capital (Citi) and Rose Investments, a division of Jonathan Rose Companies, today announced the launch of a $75 million fund which will make transformative investments in multifamily affordable housing along the Eastern seaboard. The Rose Green Cities Fund LLC will acquire and renovate existing multifamily [...]

CONSTRUCTION group Morgan Sindall reported final results for the year to December 31 which showed a 6% boost to turnover of £2.22bn and a 2% fall in pre tax profits of £40m, although its affordable housing division produced a 14.1% rally in operating profits. The firm operates an affordable housing operation for its Lovell brand [...]

<!–enpproperty 2012-02-21 09:37:23.0Expanded financing for affordable housing urgedChina, low-income housing ,financial support ,NDRC,affordable housing11010460Economy2@webnews/enpproperty–> BEIJING – China is encouraging local governments to make full use of their financing vehicles in 2012 in an effort to boost financial support for low-income housing projects, the country’s top economic planner said Monday. The central government has scaled up [...]