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The Divine Lorraine Hotel, also known as the Lorraine Apartments, stands at the corner of Broad Street and Fairmount Avenue in North Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Designed by architect Willis G. Hale and built between 1892 and 1894, the building originally functioned as apartments, housing some of Philadelphia's wealthy residents.
Guild House is a residential building in Philadelphia which is an important and influential work of 20th-century architecture [2] and was the first major work by Robert Venturi. [3] Along with the Vanna Venturi House it is considered to be one of the earliest expressions of Postmodern architecture , [ 4 ] and helped establish Venturi as one of ...
The Plaza Apartments, also known as Vernon House, is an historic, American apartment complex that is located in the Strawberry Mansion neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.
Its operating mandate is to offer non profit housing, where the rents or housing charges as they are called, goes back into the maintenance of the building instead of the profit of a landlord. Co-operative housing is controlled by the members of the co-op, which is run by a board of directors. There is no outside landlord.
The fee can range from $5 to more than $60 per rent payment. One tenant in Concord took to Nextdoor this month to express their grievance. “Convenience fee to pay rent?
Nationwide, the first public housing projects were made possible by the New Deal's Public Works Administration (PWA) program and later by the U.S. Housing Act of 1937.The Act of 1937 (also known as the Wagner‐Steagall Act), provided subsidies to construct, own and manage public housing to local public housing agencies for “families whose incomes are so low that they cannot afford adequate ...
The Norman Blumberg Apartments, also known as the Blumberg Homes, were a 510-unit high rise public housing complex in the Sharswood neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Owned and operated by the Philadelphia Housing Authority , they were viewed by many as a symbol of the City's failure to address concentrated poverty and crime and were ...
Permanent, federally funded housing came into being in the United States as a part of Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal. Title II, Section 202 of the National Industrial Recovery Act, passed June 16, 1933, directed the Public Works Administration (PWA) to develop a program for the "construction, reconstruction, alteration, or repair under public regulation or control of low-cost housing and slum ...