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Providence City Council, mayor divided on how to spend proposed $40-million city infrastructure bond

Edit The Providence Journal 19 Jul 2016
PROVIDENCE — A turf war over paving may be in the offing between the City Council and the administration.Mayor Jorge O. Elorza announced last week that he wants to put a $40-million city infrastructure bond on the November ballot, with the list of sidewalk, street, recreation and repair projects it would pay for chosen by the administration's ......

10B: It's A House (and techno) Party, YO!

Edit Skiddle 19 Jul 2016
Swing by 10b for London's freshest house & techno afterhours club. This one's for the music lovers - 8 hours of house and techno, from favorite classics to the sound of the underground ... This one's for the music lovers - 8 hours of house and techno, from favorite classics to the sound of the underground....

DDA may launch next housing scheme online

Edit The Hindu 19 Jul 2016
When the Delhi Development Authority (DDA) launches its next housing scheme, which is expected soon, the long queues of flat aspirants outside its headquarters might be missing. According to senior officials of the land development agency, the DDA is planning make the entire process of applying for a flat in the housing scheme online ... That is why the agency receives several lakhs of applications whenever it launches a housing scheme....

Slum dwellers to be housed in situ

Edit The Hindu 19 Jul 2016
The Tamil Nadu Slum Clearance Board (TNSCB) will be constructing 26,978 in the same locality houses across the State ... In Chennai, 4,662 houses under the Beneficiary Led Individual Construction have been approved ... The construction of 925 houses is in progress ... The cost of the in situ beneficiary-led housing project is Rs ... Upgrading, on the other hand, makes a significant impact on the lives of people....

Robbery bid thwarted

Edit The Hindu 19 Jul 2016
A quiet afternoon turned horrific for a senior citizen on Monday as two unidentified youths, one of whom posed as a courier delivery boy, barged into her house and tied her and her maid up with the intention of burgling the house....

State Rep. Howse, ODP Speak Out Against Portman’s Housing Record and Attempt to Politicize Affordable Housing to Hide from Trump (Ohio Democratic Party)

Edit Public Technologies 19 Jul 2016
Portman's record of cutting housing assistance and how his event is a politically motivated attempt to distract from his own support for Trump during the RNC ... 'The truth is, Senator Portman is trying to distract from his endorsement of Trump just like he's trying to cover up his record of hurting fair and affordable housing ... of the housing market....

Shanghai land prices out of sight

Edit China Daily 19 Jul 2016
Shanghai's limited land supply for residential development and the current undersupply of housing stock have fuelled developers' expectations on further rise in housing prices ... Residential housing prices in Shanghai have surged more than 20 percent in the first quarter of 2016 and authorities have been taking measures to curb speculation....

Roads in Fort St. George to be re-laid

Edit The Hindu 19 Jul 2016
A long, faded line on the walls of the heritage building, once Robert Clive’s House, shows the level of its submergence in the floods of November-December last year ... Mary’s Church, Exchange House (Fort Museum), Big Warehouse and Last House — are under the control of ASI (Chennai Circle). The Fort House, where the State Assembly ......

House prices to fall but Scotland 'will avoid recession'

Edit BBC News 19 Jul 2016
However, its UK Economic Outlook report suggests house prices will rise sharply after two years and reach an average of £156,000 by 2020 ... The firm also said "vastly more" affordable housing should be built to help first-time buyers get on the property ladder ... "The picture on housing is sobering and timely as we see the end of the right-to-buy scheme at the end of this month....

House burgled

Edit The Hindu 19 Jul 2016
Burglars broke into the house of a textile shop owner at V ... The ... His mother Muthulakshmi stayed in the house ... 30,000 were stolen from the house....

Upper house victory may embolden Abe to revise Constitution

Edit China Daily 19 Jul 2016
Tatsuo Hirano, an independent member of Japan's upper house of parliament, or Diet, applied last week to join the ruling Liberal Democratic Party ... Article 96 of the Constitution stipulates that for any amendment two-thirds majority is required in both houses of the Diet, along with the approval of a majority of the voting population in a referendum....

UK should avoid severe recession or house price crash despite growth downgrades following Brexit vote (PwC - PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP)

Edit Public Technologies 19 Jul 2016
After this initial dip, however, projected house price growth picks up again to around 4% in 2018 and an average of around 5%-6% per annum in the longer term as persistent supply shortages keep house prices rising faster on average than earnings ... have been by 2018, in contrast to a reduction of £10,000 in Scotland and just £8,000 in the North East....

Homeless in Chennai to soon get a place to stay

Edit The Hindu 19 Jul 2016
“We have completed all procedures and it should be set up by the end of this week or next,” he said ... While activists and homeless families have welcomed the move, they claim that providing a permanent housing facility would be more helpful than opening temporary shelters ... It had stated that the shelter was only the first point of intervention and could not replace the right to housing for all....
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