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Affordable Housing Institute – Essential actors in affordable housing delivery

10/13/09 By: David A. Smith Excerpt Last week in Washington, as part of the World Habitat Day activities, AHI – in partnership with the National Housing Conference as host and the Housing Partnership Network as a co-sponsor – issued and … Continue reading

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WHO’S IN CHARGE HERE, ANYWAY? – ‘Who’s my landlord?’ – A bill before City Council would reveal the people behind each LLC – City Limits.org

By Nekoro GomesOctober 19, 2009 Mike Grinthal, a staff attorney with South Brooklyn Legal Services who often finds himself working for tenants and trying to locate the owners behind an apartment building’s limited liability corporation, describes the inspiration for a … Continue reading

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Des Moines to invest up to $1.3M in troubled apartment complex – contaminated with mold

Boards block the entrance to a sewer-damaged area of the complex. City housing inspectors said last month that they planned to condemn the property unless repairs were made. By DONNELLE ELLER October 19, 2009 Melissa Sholley says the low-income apartment … Continue reading

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Tenant Troubles: Wet, Cold, & Moldy – San Francisco Appeal

by Dave Crow October 14, 2009 Just three days after the Appeal launched, commenter Generic said that a “How Not To Get F….. By Your Landlord” column would be “awesome.” And since that day I’ve been searching for the perfect … Continue reading

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Video – Enclave Apartments – Silver Spring, MD – Woman Says Moldy Apartment Put Her Out $8,000

10-16-09 SILVER SPRING, Md. – A local woman says she lost everything after mold started growing in her apartment. Charmaine Green-Forde lives in the massive 1100-unit Enclave Apartments in Silver Spring, and says her apartment has made her sick. “I … Continue reading

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