Affordable Housing
Morning News Roundup
Here are our favorite headlines from the world or cities, urbanism, transportation, and beyond. Take a look below and share what you're reading in...
Construction Watch: Apartments shape up, change name on East Broadway
The apartment complex rising on the former Mercy Academy site at 1172 East Broadway is beginning to look like a real building. On a...
Looking at Louisville’s apartment boom with four different maps
While the news cycle typically talks about individual development projects individually, looking at the bigger picture can reveal larger trends or insights. For instance,...
Are you paying for parking you’re not using? How parking minimums...
For most people, zoning requirements have little to no effect on everyday life. Indeed, zoning—which is defined by municipal governments and which regulates building...
Historic Shawnee school building being converted to affordable apartments
The Shawnee neighborhood on the western edge of Louisville is among the city's most historic and well preserved, with block after block of well-kept...
Smoketown To Be Transformed By $200 Million Hope VI Development
Louisville Metro Housing Authority officials recently announced plans to tear down the Sheppard Square housing complex just south of Broadway in the Smoketown-Jackson Park...
Planting Seeds Of Growth In Shelby Park
An historic mixed-use commercial building has been fully renovated in the Shelby Park neighborhood. Oak Seed, a local company dedicated to restoration of buildings...
Restoration Underway At SoBro’s Olympic Apartments
The Olympic Apartments on the corner of Third Street and Breckinridge Street in SoBro are getting set for a top to bottom renovation that...
What Is A Housing Project?
The new HOPE VI development named 810 East Broadway held an official ribbon cutting yesterday. We've told you about the building all through construction...