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Second Annual College Town Renter Satisfaction Rankings Rate Renter Satisfaction Based on Ratings by Current Apartment Renters LOS ANGELES, CA--(Marketwire - May 26, 2011) - With college graduation season in full swing, ApartmentRatings.com (www.apartmentratings.com), the leading website for user reviews of apartments around the United States, today released its annual rankings of renter satisfaction for the 100 largest college towns and college cities in the country. Topping this year's list is Berkeley, Calif., home to the University of California-Berkeley, the oldest university in California's University of California system. The university's 35,000 students enjoy a picturesque, small-town feel in the city of about 100,000. Though housing costs can be higher than many other college towns, Berkeley offers numerous public transit options and is extremely pedestrian and bicycle friendly -- an ideal situation for college students . Berkeley takes the top spot from D...

Video: Sister and cousin of Berkeley balcony victims on taking part in Rose of Tralee BelfastTelegraph.co.uk http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/video-news/video-sister-and-cousin-of-berkeley-balcony-victims-on-taking-part-in-rose-of-tralee-36057350.html http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/video-news/article36057369.ece/9496c/AUTOCROP/h342/2840525-1503397291403957.jpg Email A young woman who lost her sister and cousin in the Berkeley balcony collapse hopes to "make them proud" when she takes to the stage at this year's 58th Rose of Tralee Festival. San Francisco Rose Amanda Donohoe (19) lost her sister Ashley and her cousin Olivia Burke on June 16, 2015, when the fourth-floor balcony of a rented apartment collapsed . Students Eimear Walsh , Lorcan Miller, Niccolai Schuster and Eoghan Culligan were also killed in the tragedy. Physics student Ms Donohoe said both she and her sister dreamt of taking part in the festival since they were children. She said she grew up watchi...

As teachers, cooks, cashiers, and bus drivers are being priced out of Charlotte, one question looms: How does a growing, thriving city in modern America keep housing affordable for its working-class citizens? By RACHEL JONES Published: 2017.08.23 06:21 AM Jacqueline Ingram (middle) works full-time at the Ross Dress For Less distribution center in Rock Hill. But in this booming region, her salary isn’t enough to comfortably buy a home for her and her kids, 12-year-old Nya and five-year-old Rejonee. PHOTOS BY ANDY MCMILLAN ONE RECENT SUNDAY AFTERNOON , Jacqueline Ingram and her two daughters explore an empty four-bedroom house for sale on a Brianna Way cul-de-sac in southwest Charlotte , filling it with their dreams along the way. “This one is mine,” 12-year-old Nya says of an upstairs bedroom with a view of the Clanton Park neighborhood . “I could put my chest over there, and my table there.” As five-year-old Rejonee sprawls out on the carpet in the room across the hall, In...