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The Prior Lake City Council recently approved the preliminary plat for the project.

The platform looks to encourage investment in Birmingham neighborhoods through technology.

Zoning that keeps up with the times. A more reactive incentives policy. Less dependence on variances. An immediate change in eviction policies.

A dozen national experts studied Columbus neighborhoods and told officials here that those four changes, among others, could help these areas thrive.

After a week of studying several neighborhoods and talking with city, business and nonprofit leaders, the group presented its findings this morning at the Coleman Center as part of a larger program to help…

This firm has completed 39 upscale houses in the Golden Oak neighborhood since 2013.

After years of enigma and rumors, Robinson Ranch across the street from Apple's Austin campus could be in store for a major transformation — if the family that owns the 7,000 acres can decide what it wants to do with the site. Much of the ranch has no height restrictions for buildings, and it's in one of the hottest real estate markets in the region.

Like construction and landscaping, the apartment management industry also is experiencing shortages.

By Holden Lewis, Nerdwallet

Whether you can afford a home depends — a lot — on the city you want to call home. A modest income can go a long way in Cumberland, Maryland, the metropolitan area with the nation’s most affordable houses. In contrast, the least affordable homes are in the San Jose, California, metropolitan area — the center of Silicon Valley.

In Cumberland, a median-priced house costs less than two years’ median household income. By contrast, the typical home in San Jose costs about 10 years of household income.

NerdWallet calculated affordability for 173 metropolitan areas by comparing the median annual household income and the monthly principal-and-interest payment for a median-priced single-family home. “Median” means half of the values or incomes are higher and half are lower. Those comparisons revealed the five most- and least-affordable markets for buying a home.

The lists were compiled using data from the National Association of Realtors, the Census Bureau and Ne..

It was good to see Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett’s call for city funding to support affordable housing development, especially near downtown Milwaukee.

Downtown Atlanta planners spent 2017 engaging stakeholders in a discussion about the vision for the downtown area, resulting in the newly adopted Downtown Atlanta Master Plan, a blueprint for the next 15 years of growth and change downtown.

Under the direction of Central Atlanta Progress (CAP) and the Atlanta Downtown Improvement District (ADID), the master plan is complete and implementation is underway, said Jennifer Ball, CAP’s vice president of planning and economic development.

“We…

It was 2001 when Leonard Adams founded a nonprofit to provide low-income housing with support services in Atlanta’s Westside.