(Photo by Infrogmation, used under a GNU Free Documentation License ) With the advent of a new administration in Washington providing the long-beleaguered citizens of New Orleans, LA a new sense of hope (no doubt increased upon hearing that the President has promised to visit the region) it’s easy...

The Housing Authority of the City of Pittsburgh is digging itself into a giant hole,it seems: Big drills roared at Northview Heights last week, their truck-mounted bits boring 300-foot-deep wells in the rocky earth, seeking neither oil nor gas, but only access to the subterranean temperatures that p...

A huge issue I have with pulling in private developers to build public housing initiatives is that while the developers immediately benefit from an influx of tax money and free public land, projects designed to mix affordable housing for poor and working classes with middle class homesteads plod and...

Don't "upgrade" to Firefox 3.0. It is not compatible with your previous plug-ins (the ones they prominently advertise as a feature of the browser on their own site) and, on a lot of computers (including mine) it stops YouTube working. Videos buffer alright, it's just they go for half a second and th...

The Erie Housing Authority held a public meeting yesterday on the proposed spending of $1,045,000 to install central air conditioning in over 1,300 public housing units. The authority will vote on their $3.7 million 2008 spending plan at their December 26 meeting. You can view their entire draft pla...

The struggle over public housing has been building for years here in New Orleans. Now it’s ramping up to new levels. It’s a disgusting and pathetic spectacle. With apologies to Mom and Dad, it’s a clusterfuck. There’s just no other word to describe it. I don’t have it i...