Sentences with phrase «house over the neighborhood»

A final word of advice from ERA brokers: Don't choose the house over the neighborhood.

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Why would you buy right now, when houses all over the neighborhood have «For Sale» signs?

Of course, it's not news that the cost of housing in neighborhoods near Center City has been steadily creeping up over the last few years.

On any given day, residents can grab a coffee (served with animal crackers) at Tryst, arguably the most popular cafe in the neighborhood, stroll along the wide sidewalks, browse a few boutiques such as Urban Dwell, enjoy a meal on the balcony at Roofers Union while looking out over the city, and finally catch a live band or DJ playing at Songbyrd Music House.

The largest of these squatter neighborhoods, El Guasmo, houses over 200,000 people within a vast network of unnamed, unmapped streets.

If I drew a cartoon for the «Naked Pastor» it would be a guy standing in the middle of shattered glass with buckets of rocks throwing them over a cliff at neighborhood of full of glass houses.

It would be like joining a home - owner's association in your neighborhood, and when it comes time to move, you handing over your house that you paid for to the HOA.

We will be taking a creepy bride and either Spiderman, Superman, or Batman (I have a very indecisive two - year - old) out trick - or - treating in our neighborhood then head over to a friend's house for a little Halloween fiesta.

But people on both sides say the proposal has become mired in debate over affordable housing, with one resident at a recent Village Board meeting, for example, warning against attracting bums to the neighborhood.

The grants are going to: Ravinia Festival, $ 300,000 over three years for arts education and programming at Lawndale community organizations; Chicago Children's Museum, $ 80,000 for general operations; Steppenwolf Theatre Company, $ 80,000 for general operations; Association House, $ 75,000 for its integrated arts program; Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, $ 75,000 for general operations; Northwestern University Settlement Association, $ 75,000 for arts programming in the West Town and Humboldt Park neighborhoods; and WTTW - Ch. 11, $ 75,000 for the Artbeat Chicago program series.

Over 500 people signed up to volunteer for Josh's campaign — and they are attending weekly phone banks, house parties, or neighborhood canvassing events in each of their major cities.

Since then, its work has expanded to 14 cities in upstate New York and Pennsylvania where more than 1,400 units of affordable housing and over $ 300 million in community investment have improved countless lives and neighborhoods.

Sean Ryan [email protected] State and Milwaukee preservation experts disagree over whether the Hide House in Milwaukee's Bay View neighborhood has any historic significance.

UPPER MANHATTAN — A lack of affordable housing options in Washington Heights and Inwood is driving residents out of the neighborhood, according to hundreds who rallied over the weekend to raise their voices about the problem.

«I'm proud to fund Cities RISE, which will build on our significant work over the past three years — using our settlements with the big banks that were responsible for the housing crisis to revitalize neighborhoods and create safer, more stable communities for New Yorkers across the state.»

WILLOWBROOK — The city's first publicly funded wellness community — a neighborhood with retail shops, medical facilities and affordable housing focused on residents» health — is taking over a shuttered tuberculosis hospital on Staten Island.

While several have outspokenly criticized Rikers, called for it to be closed, or at least called for inmates under 18 to no longer be held there, housing inmates in the neighborhoods they represent rarely goes over well with constituents.

«One in five people in the country will be over the age of 65 by 2030, but in many respects, the communities we've developed over the past 40 years do not accommodate the housing, neighborhood and mobility needs of an aging population.

The rezoning is expected to allow developers to increase density in the neighborhood, and is an important component of de Blasio's housing plan to construct or preserve 200,000 affordable units over a decade.

Every year, the authority turns its millions of dollars of excess revenue over to the city, where some of it goes to build affordable housing in other neighborhoods.

More than a dozen East Harlem residents were tossed out a town hall meeting Thursday night after giving Mayor Bill de Blasio an earful over his controversial rezoning plan to bring more high - rise housing to the neighborhood.

State Attorney Eric Schneiderman was to announce late Friday morning a pilot program that will make available to land banks statewide $ 4 million for New Yorkers to take over «zombie homes» in their neighborhoods and rehab them into affordable rental housing.

Soon he is flying over his own neighborhood, and then the monitor fills with an overhead image of the house he lives in, including discernible details like skylights, missing shingles, and the backyard sandbox his kids play in.

Their goal was to monitor those families over the coming years as they sought permanent housing back in their original neighborhoods or elsewhere, and to track how disaster and displacement affected health.

So, the rare house that falls within our preferred neighborhoods that has the pretty finishes and upgrades go for $ 20,000 or more over asking.

I have officially made the transition to full - time Floridian and I guess it isn't so bad after all My apartment is in a historic neighborhood which has the most gorgeous houses that I drool over on my nightly walks with Jax and also scope out the best ones for my blog photos like this!

Parent Tawanda Sheard describes the journey her fourth - grade daughter would take to attend the closest district school: «Abandoned houses, liquor stores, guys on the corner» — and a jaunt over Interstate 78, which bisects the neighborhood.

They were selected because their parents had volunteered for the Moving to Opportunity (MTO) program, an initiative to enable low - income families to use housing vouchers to escape high - poverty neighborhoods and move to mixed - income ones instead (see «New Kids on the Block» and «All Over the Map,» Fall 2007).

When from 2004 until 2008 McDonald's Corporation and Ronald McDonald House Charities donated over a million dollars to the Renaissance Schools Fund which funded Mayor Daley's dismantling of over 60 neighborhood schools?

Then comes the mother of a boy with special needs to discuss whether Hancock — a spunky neighborhood school in a yellow brick building that towers over the small square houses surrounding it — will still be the right placement for him as a fifth - year senior.

Over the past four years Austin Voices has convened hundreds of people to weigh in on the education issues that affect them — from the neighborhood level with public housing «community conferences» to the national level with hearings on No Child Left Behind.

For over eighty years, this government housing agency has been insuring mortgage programs for new home buyers, consumers in equity challenged neighborhoods and low income households.

In places like rural Cleveland, where houses in neighborhoods that were just barely winning over crime as it was, now have 10 of 20 houses empty and just can't win the fight anymore.

If you are looking to enter the housing market, as either a buyer or a seller, let's get together to go over exactly what's going on in our neighborhood and discuss your options!

Home to 18 Fortune 500 companies, the city is also attracting young professionals from all over the country — not just for the city's job offerings, but for its affordable housing and kid - friendly neighborhoods that offer 400 parks and 60 lakes.

One came up to me at a grocery store parking lot, one was surrendered by some college girls who couldn't keep him after the semester, and the other was born in my neighborhood, ended up under my house with his brother, and was a bottle baby we kept, who grew up to be over 15 lbs.

; walking through a Bulgarian Roma (gypsy) neighborhood everyone warned me against visiting and being invited into house after house with apologies («I'd make coffee, but we have no water»); and a teary - eyed Burmese man in his 60s telling me after a conversation over tea that «I will remember you for eternity.»

Shanghai is a collision of old world and new: a bustling metropolis where futuristic skyscrapers tower over centuries - old neighborhoods of traditional shikoumen lane houses.

Rather, it extends from one neighborhood around Bushwick Avenue, near where Famous Accountants has taken over a basement, to the low - income housing off Lorimer Street, near another newcomer named Spread Art.

Over the course of the last ten years, two of the city's neighborhoods, the Design District and the nearby Wynwood, have become famous for their ever - changing art scene that today houses around 200 galleries and artist - run spaces.

All over the neighborhood that shares the filthy canal's name, repurposed industrial buildings house art studios that throw their doors open to the public once a year.

Haroon Gunn - Salie's Turn the Other Way, originally installed in a demolished house in District Six, asks viewers to consider their own role in the devastation of the neighborhood that began in the 1960s, and the ongoing conflicts over the land on which it once stood.

The San Bruno fire that ripped through a neighborhood in the California town has taken the place of other news stories including how the Ravens shut down the Jets, and left well over 50 houses destroyed and dozens others damaged, according to numerous reports.

KEY ACHIEVEMENTS • Troubleshot a telephone cable problem within seconds which had been in limbo for over 3 months • Singlehandedly converted cable television from analog to digital for 120 houses in the same neighborhood • Wrote a short booklet on educating customers about in - house cable maintenance, resulting in fewer breakdown incidents • Implemented a cable damage control process which resulted in a 50 % decrease in acquiring additional cable, and reduced costs by the same percentage

We pored over the moving stories one by one, meeting REALTORS ® who build and rehab houses for the poor; care for those in need; and work to revitalize neighborhoods, protect the environment, and raise funds for medical research.

When you first put your house on the market, you might be hopeful for a quick sale — especially if you've put a lot of money into improving the house over the years and if the neighborhood is one that has historically attracted a lot of buyers.

There is a house in my neighborhood that has been sitting vacant for well over a year.

It seems that despite political concerns over growth and the fashion for urban neighborhoods, most consumers still look to suburban housing as the American Dream.

She helped us eliminate a slew of house we were going to see by going over the neighborhoods and properties.

Love Thy Neighbor (hood): A slight majority of respondents (56 percent Caucasian; 50 percent African American; 50 percent Hispanic) said they would rather live in the neighborhood of their dreams, even if they are not head over heels for their house.