Sentences with phrase «abandoned housing developments»

John Divola photographs wrecked apartments in abandoned housing developments; Brie Ruais flattens out the corner of a room with a bulky ceramic sculpture; and Michael Henry Hayden makes details of rooms — complete with light fixtures, door locks, and mood lighting — that look more like photographs than painted replicas of the real thing.

The corporate empire has foreclosed on millions of homes, forcing the 99 - percent, now called «subprimes» to roam the broiling hot, heavily polluted countryside, squatting in abandoned housing developments until the authorities force them out.

They spit at cars, wander abandoned housing developments with misbegotten candy - colored exteriors, and run out into parking lots without looking both ways.

The author acquaints readers with several such denizens in the first few chapters before introducing a fascinating newcomer to the area: Clair, an alluring and mysterious woman Ben encounters squatting in the model home for an abandoned housing development in the middle of nowhere.

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The audit said that the city's Department of Housing Preservation and Development often delays or abandons development schedules for turning over the properties, and that «even when H.P.D. moved forward with planned development, it did not meet its stated timelines for nearly half of its projeDevelopment often delays or abandons development schedules for turning over the properties, and that «even when H.P.D. moved forward with planned development, it did not meet its stated timelines for nearly half of its projedevelopment schedules for turning over the properties, and that «even when H.P.D. moved forward with planned development, it did not meet its stated timelines for nearly half of its projedevelopment, it did not meet its stated timelines for nearly half of its projects.»

The Department of Housing Preservation and Development has allowed as many as 1,131 properties lie idle, with some sites largely abandoned, and many others where projects have been severely delayed, according to an audit by the office of Comptroller Scott Stringer.

In an effort to recruit and retain teachers as well as encourage economic development in McDowell County, W.Va., the Reconnecting McDowell partnership purchased a long - abandoned property May 12 in downtown Welch, W.Va., that will become apartment - style housing for teachers and other professionals.

I live now in a house in Queens which was abandoned when we purchased it from HUD (Housing and Urban Development) then fixed up to be habitable.

«In - between time» applies to civic space, too — depopulated modernist housing developments that sit precariously between evacuation and demolition (explored by Beshty in his Excursionist Views), plants, weeds and vegetation on isolated highway medians (Island Flora), or abandoned shopping malls (American Passages).

Taken in Southern California's Antelope Valley, these photographs depict recently constructed houses that have been abandoned and left for ruins, the result of economic recession and ill - conceived suburban development.