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Boulevard Gardens to become ‘newer model’ under $140M plan (access required)

By Sam Boykin, staff writer
Published: March 10,2011

Nine months after the Charlotte Housing Authority won a $20.9 million HOPE VI federal grant last summer to redevelop one of the city’s oldest public housing projects, the demolition of Boulevard Gardens is nearly complete. Plans for the redevelopment, dubbed Boulevard Homes, call for 227 mixed-income family units — which consist of very low-income, work [...]


State rolls foreclosure-prevention program

By Mecklenburg Times staff reports
Published: December 1,2010

The North Carolina Housing Finance Agency announced Wednesday that a new state foreclosure-prevention fund is available through participating U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development-approved counseling agencies. Financed by the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Hardest Hit Fund, the program will make mortgage payments for qualified unemployed workers while they seek jobs or complete job [...]