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Herman E. Perry Homes (aka "Perry Homes") was completed in 1954 with 1,100 units for black families. [2] [12] [18] Part of the project was destroyed by a tornado on March 24, 1975, with the buildings being replaced in 1976–77. [18] The project's demolition was completed in 1999, [19] and it was replaced with the West Highlands development. In ...
[32] [33] In 2002, authorities established a "municipal land bank" to buy abandoned or foreclosed homes to prevent them from being bought up by real estate speculators. [31] One report was that by the summer of 2009, 1,100 homes in Flint had been bulldozed and that another 3,000 had been scheduled for demolition.
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Here are six abandoned historic homes for sale that you can buy right now. Located in the quaint town of Milton, North Carolina, the Gordon-Brandon House was possibly built circa 1850 by a local ...
Jul. 15—ROCHESTER — Olmsted County has been foraging a new path to create affordable homes from rundown and abandoned properties during the past five years. Rather than auctioning off tax ...
Unsettled History. A man-made disaster in eastern Brazil in the late 1970s helped prompt the World Bank to adopt its first systematic protections for people living in the footprint of big projects. Rising waters upstream from the Sobradinho Dam, built with World Bank financing, forced more than 60,000 people from their homes.
Hull House, Chicago. Settlement and community houses in the United States were a vital part of the settlement movement, a progressive social movement that began in the mid-19th century in London with the intention of improving the quality of life in poor urban areas through education initiatives, food and shelter provisions, and assimilation and naturalization assistance.