“It’s been decades since Manning Rollerson cut the grass in front of his grandmother’s home in Freeport, a petrochemical town of about 12,000 that’s situated on the Gulf, about an hour’s drive south of Houston. But he still remembers the way the wild onion would burn his eyes as he pushed a barely functioning … [Read more…]
“Denver hit a milestone on Wednesday, opening it’s 3,000th affordable housing unit in the last four years. Mayor Michael Hancock has a ‘3×5 Initiative’ to open 3,000 affordable housing units in five years. He hit that mark one year early with the ribbon-cutting of the Ash Street Apartments at 11th Avenue and Ash Street, … [Read more…]
“Alfredo Valdez-Martinez says the discounted bus pass that he gets from RTD’s Nonprofit Program means everything to his work. But he’s been told that he won’t be able to access the discounted pass because of an unexpected change to the program. “Without the help that I get from this bus pass to get to … [Read more…]
“During a recent tour of Carmel Place, New York City’s new micro-apartment complex, Ammr Vandal, project manager for nArchitects, explained how design can generate a sense of roominess in even the smallest spaces. We were standing in the building’s three-hundred-and-two-square-foot second-floor model unit, one of its “mid-size” micros. The other apartments range from two … [Read more…]