No room for low-income housing in South Los Angeles

Low-income families are being priced out of their own neighborhoods in South Los Angeles so landlords can profit from luxury housing. Organizations such as Esperanza Community Housing aim to prevent the...

Affordable MHADA houses in Mumbai :Long queues just to buy forms

Maharashtra housing and Area Developoment Authority (MHADA) opened up 3,863 houses ranging from INR 3,30,000 to INR 5.6 million have caught the fancy of citizens in the financial capital of Mumbai. Housing by...

PFNC Global Communities, shipping container homes for the homeless

A company out of New Mexico, PFNC Global Communities, has come up with a novel solution to the growing homeless problem; turn shipping containers into social housing.  Career homebuilder Brian McCarthy...

Shipping containers could be 'dream' homes for thousands

This type of thing should have been done for Katrina victims, and with today's economy and foreclosures, this could end up being the home for millions of Americans."CORRALES, New Mexico (AP) -- It was a side trip...

CitySkip: Man Builds Secret Apartment At Mall, Gets Away With It For Four Years

The leader of an artists' cooperative was apprehended and sentenced to probation for illegally setting up a secret apartment inside the Providence Place Mall in Providence, Rhode Island.