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NEWS ABOUT: housing projects

housing projects stories: 5 news summaries

(Newser) - Amid intense US-Israeli negotiations over settlements, Israel today brushed off Washington’s request to stop an American millionaire's housing project in East Jerusalem, the Jerusalem Post reports. Palestinians have complained that it would change demographics in the Arab-dominated area. But Obama "had crossed a red line" in asking... More »

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Israel • Jerusalem • Benjamin Netanyahu • Israel and Palestinians • Palestinians • millionaires • Arab Israeli conflict • East Jerusalem • housing projects

 Calif. Adopts
 Stiff Anti-Sprawl Law

New law ties compact growth to $5B in transportation funding

Oct 1, 08 1:44 PM CDT
(Newser) - The country's most aggressive anti-sprawl bill was signed into law by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger yesterday, the Sacramento Bee reports. The "first in the nation" bill mandates regional targets for reducing greenhouse-gas emissions and uses $5 billion in transportation funding as an incentive to stimulate denser residential development. “This... More »

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California • greenhouse gases • Arnold Schwarzenegger • suburban sprawl • housing projects • California Air Resources Board

 Evacuees Return to 
 Battered Galveston 

Damage varies widely in Texas town hit by Ike

Sep 24, 08 2:31 PM CDT
(Newser) - Heaps of furniture and electronics lined Galveston's streets as evacuees returned to the Texan island to salvage their belongings, the Galveston County Daily News reports. Some were spared from Hurricane Ike’s wrath altogether, while others discovered their homes completely flattened. In the city's central housing projects, first-floor residents found... More »

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natural disaster • Galveston • water damage • housing projects • property damage • Hurricane Ike

Riot Police Move In on Parisian Gang War

Violence in French capital leaves several bystanders dead

Sep 18, 08 8:52 AM CDT
(Newser) - French riot police have been deployed to contain a gang war in the northeast of Paris, as fighting between youths from two rival housing projects has left several bystanders dead, reports the Guardian. Unlike earlier violence in France, this battle is taking place not in suburban ghettos but in the... More »

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France • Paris • gang violence • shooting • housing projects

French Police Storm Housing Projects

1,000 cops bust 33 for riots in raid on immigrant communities

Feb 18, 08 5:03 AM CST
(Newser) - More than 1,000 French police stormed housing projects in three largely immigrant communities outside of Paris early today and arrested 33 suspects believed linked to riots in November, AP reports. Police sources said two gang leaders in particular organized the street violence that included armed rioters in what they... More »

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police • Nicolas Sarkozy • France • Paris • immigrant • riots • suburbs • housing projects

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