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• The Daily Report

  Washington DC’s Affordable Housing Follows the Money

  Larry Martin | Mon, Mar 31st, 2008 | Category: Commentary | City: Washington, D.C. | Tags: building, larry martin, condominiums, affordable housing, washington, dc | 0

  DC’s Mayor Fente has been winning friends among low-housing advocates with pledges to fund, build and preserve 14,000 affordable housing units over a four-year period. During the past years of pumped up real estate values, over 200 low to moderate income apartment buildings were flipped into condominiums, circumventing a city law to give tenants first right of refusal. The City’s regulatory agency allowed systematic abuse of residents by landlords to force them to move. Can affordable housing rebound during leaner revenue years, when pressure to convert from affordable rentals to condominiums is reduced?

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• Columnists

  Celebrities descend upon Milwaukee: Who will do their dry-cleaning?

  Dave Steele | Thu, Feb 14th, 2008 | Category: Report | City: Milwaukee | Tags: commentary, dave steele, milwaukee, condominiums, dry-cleaning, east side, halle berry, celebrities, gold coast, prospect avenue, oprah, screech, brewers, university club, high school of the arts | 1

  What do Oprah’s mom, the guy who played Screech on Saved by the Bell, and Halle Berry have in common? They either currently live, or have recently lived, along Milwaukee’s “Gold Coast:” Prospect Avenue, a row of ritzy condo towers lining the Lake Michigan shoreline. (Yes, that’s right: the Halle Berry.)

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• The Daily Report

  Moving toward affordable housing

  Larry Martin | Wed, Dec 19th, 2007 | Category: Commentary | Tags: washington dc, larry martin, real estate, condominiums, affordable housing, potomac river flood, penn quarter, west end | 0

  For about a decade now, an indicator of economic activity in DC has been the number of erection cranes you can count as you as you drive down into the Potomac River flood plain from upper Northwest. You can pretty much see all of the downtown and a good bit of the Southwest and Southeast too from the piedmont above downtown. I counted the largest number a couple years ago—28.

  The City was building aggressively, with Gallery Place (about 5 blocks north of the National Mall) completing…

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