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In 2013, Randy Dillard was living with his four sons and a daughter in an apartment at 198th Street and Bainbridge in the Bronx. The windows were broken; mold and mildew streaked the walls. In the winter, Dillard’s family had to boil water on the stove to bathe; there was no heat or hot water. When the New York City Housing Authority conducted an inspection of the apartment on behalf of Section 8, the federal rent assistance program that financed Dillard ’s rental, the unit failed the test, and Section 8 stopped paying Dillard ’s landlord, demanding that he make repairs. That winter, Dillard was hospitalized for two months with a bout of emphysema; when he came out, he was served with eviction papers for nonpayment of rent. advertisement “I stood in the middle of my hallway looking around my apartment thinking: What am I going to do with my stuff?” Dillard tells Fast Company . “I told myself: I’m going to end up homeless. I’m going to wind up in a shelter.” Dillard got word of a Bron...

T he $8. 7 million Herman Student Life Complex tripled the size of the academic space available for Husker student -athletes by using the previous space known as the Hewit Center and the space previously occupied by the West Stadium Strength Complex . Nebraska Athletics is one of the few self- sustaining athletic programs in the country. In 2016-17, Nebraska was one of only two collegiate programs in the nation to attract nearly 1. 3 million fans across its seven major team sports through the doors of its world-class facilities. In 2016-17, Nebraska was the only Division I program to rank in the top 15 nationally in attendance in football and men's basketball. Overall, nine Husker sports ranked among the top 20 nationally in attendance in 2016-17. This incredible interest and support enables Nebraska Athletics to invest in the student-athlete experience, as well as the overall game-day experience. Nebraska is a leader in providing all the resources and support necessary f...

Would you love to live in a city where southern charm and history meet urban culture ? If so, Columbia, South Carolina , should be considered. A revitalized downtown area offers art galleries , restaurants, a convention center and fine shopping, as well as concerts and more. Exciting educational opportunities can be found here, as the University of South Carolina main campus is located in Columbia. With a large student population , it is easy to find cheap apartments in Columbia, SC. Columbia Attractions Riverfront Park , along the Congaree River, provides jogging and walking opportunities for residents on over 167 acres. It also contains an amphitheater and hosts small concerts . Additionally, Owens Field Skate park is perfect for teens. Parks, recreational programs and events are found in Columbia, as well as an Art Center for classes and exhibitions. Residents enjoy visiting the Riverbanks Zoo with friends and family and exploring the Botanical Gardens. Columbia Sout...

Houston has a lot going for it: An active professional sports scene , two international airports, delicious Tex-Mex. The fourth-largest city in the US (2.3 million residents) has also long held a reputation as a center for big business, boasting 20 Fortune 500 companies . But in recent years, it’s quietly been building one of the most extensive startup ecosystems in the country, too. The city’s economy (as with much of Texas) is intrinsically linked to oil, which means it’s faced its share of adversity. Houston got hit hard in the 1986 oil collapse -- though the silver lining is that it escaped the 2008 recession relatively unscathed (it was the first major city to regain all its lost jobs, and then some). Credit the benefit of experience. “Thankfully, our financial system learned valuable lessons during the oil crash in the 1980s and resulting glut of speculative building,” says Rob Todd, a former Houston City Council member and founder of the telecom company Amplified Solutions ...

Family Development and Presidio Residential Capital have received unanimous approval from the Indio City Council to build Virada, an environmentally responsible 660-acre master-planned community with 1,300 houses, townhomes, condos and apartments in northern Indio. "The Coachella Valley has never had a sustainable community, let alone a sustainable master -planned community of this size and diversity,” said Vincent Barbato, principal of Family Development. “We’ ve created Virada to promote a healthy, active lifestyle with special significance on embracing the environment and forging community pride .” Virada will include 284 acres of open space and public parkland, a clubhouse and pool and a two-and-a-half- acre commercial center strategically located to be within a five-minute walk for all residents. The community is connected by a loop road with wide sidewalks and paths for bikes and neighborhood electrical vehicles . A dedicated solar field is expected to generate enough ...

Creative placemaking — a concept that employs a specific strategy to infuse the arts and culture into a space — can be seen in different forms all around the world. There’s Alphabet City cultural center (run by the City of Asylum nonprofit) in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where you can soak in a cultural performance , browse through a bookstore, drink a glass of wine, and go back home to your apartment — all without leaving the premises. There’s also the Livable Laneways Project in Vancouver, British Columbia, that “ transform overlooked alleys or ‘laneways’ into vibrant outdoor gathering spaces with a stimulating mix of interventions,” according to the Project for Public Spaces, a nonprofit based in New York City, New York, that helps people create vibrant public areas . Now, one creative placemaking project along the waterfront in Berlin, Germany — near where the Berlin Wall once stood — has transformed into a robust urban village . The Holzmarkt urban village has a theater, dance ...

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...