Latest Neighborhoods News
Protests in New Delhi halt demolition in Muslim neighborhood
NEW DELHI (AP) — Authorities in New Delhi stopped a demolition drive in a Muslim-dominated neighborhood after hundreds of residents and a number of opposition party workers gathered in protest Monday. No buildings were razed down before the bulldozers retreated. ...
Study assesses taking of Black homeowners' property in 1960s
ATHENS, Ga. (AP) — Residents of a Black neighborhood in north Georgia lost more than $5 million on their properties when their homes were destroyed and replaced with university dorms and parking lots more than 50 years ago, according to an analysis by University of Georgia professors. ...
Wilmington kids beautify a vacant property through their art
WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — Billowing barbeque smoke drifted lazily toward the four young artists who gently caressed the weathered maroon boards with their paint brushes, brightening the windows and door of a vacant property in Wilmington’s historic East Side. The artists’ arms...
Urban mining transforms Brazil neighborhoods into ghost town
MACEIO, Brazil (AP) — This part of Maceio, the capital of Brazil’s northeastern Alagoas state, used to buzz with the sounds of cars, commerce and children playing. It went silent as residents evacuated en masse, eager to escape the looming destruction of their homes, which were cracking and...
Legal services nonprofits aid those struggling to keep homes
Elizabeth Vermillera, a retired pharmaceutical technician, spends her days handing out donated clothes and food to people in Baltimore. Since 1997, she has lived with a Shih Tzu and a fox terrier in a rowhouse that her dad gave her. In 2021, the city notified Vermillera that she...
Casino company marks start of work on new Vegas-area resort
LAS VEGAS (AP) — A local casino company with several other Las Vegas-area properties marked the start Friday of a $750 million project to build a 200-room hotel tower and casino in a growing residential and commercial neighborhood southwest of the city. Red Rock Resorts employees...
Ex-acting Mayor Janey to lead effort saving Boston landmarks
BOSTON (AP) — Kim Janey, the former Boston acting mayor and city councilor, has landed a new gig, a one-year assignment leading an effort by the philanthropic Boston Foundation to identify and preserve important historical landmarks in neighborhoods populated predominantly by people of color. ...
