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Ezdan : Large Turnout on Leasing in Ezdan Oasis First Phase

Ezdan Real Estate Company, a subsidiary of Ezdan Holding Group , has announced that it has witnessed an outstanding public turnout on Ezdan Oasis in a record time. Since the leasing campaign began , the company received up to 5,000 inquiries about the project, including up to 1,000 rental demands on the first phase of the project in Al Wukair area . Ezdan Real Estate has received inquiries and demands for leasing in the Oasis through various communication channels , including Sakin centers in Doha and Al Wukair, ' Ezdan WhatsApp ' service, and the company's official website, along with its official pages on social media platforms , through which over half a million people were able to learn about Ezdan Oasis project and inquire about leasing in its first phase. Through the special offer launched recently by the company on the occasion of launching the Oasis first phase, tenants are granted eight months free of charge in Ezdan Oasis. The current phase includes 1 ,875 ...

Ezdan’s latest Oasis project gets 5,000 inquiries in record time

Ezdan Real Estate Company, a subsidiary of Ezdan Holding Group , has witnessed an “ outstanding public turnout for Ezdan Oasis in record time”, receiving up to 5,000 inquiries about the project, including up to 1,000 rental demands in the first phase of the project in Al Wukair area . Inquiries and demands for leasing came via ‘Sakin’ centres in Doha and Al Wukair, Ezdan’s WhatsApp service, and the company’s official website, along with its official pages on social media platforms through which over half a million people were able to learn about Ezdan Oasis project . Through the special offer launched recently by the company on the occasion of launching the Oasis first phase, tenants are granted eight months free of charge in Ezdan Oasis. The current phase includes 1 ,875 units of one, two, and three bedroom apartments distributed across 76 buildings, and equipped with high-end furniture. In the first phase, tenants can benefit from a variety of amenities and facilities, including...

How Can We Keep Housing Affordable? - Charlotte Magazine - September 2017

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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...

What Cities Can Learn From the Victorian Era

The Late Victorian period in the United States—roughly the last third of the 19th century—produced some of the most beautiful neighborhoods in the history of Western civilization . It also produced some of the most hopeless slums. In response to the crisis of industrial cities, the modern discipline of city planning emerged . The tools of this new profession helped clean up many unhealthy aspects of urban industry , but also stifled some of the best innovations of Late Victorian urbanism . By the 1920s, planners in the industrial world had established the legal authority to promulgate land-use regulations, and over the next generation, they succeeded at slowing the construction of slum housing and segregating noxious industries from incompatible activities, such as housing and office space. Through some of the same devices, however, planners curtailed some positive features of 19th- century urbanism , including the rich variety of free- form industrial development and the adaptiv...

100 Best Apartments For Rent in Atlanta starting at $440!

Atlanta's has an array of rental options. It is a sprawling place where land is not at a diamond premium as in other premier cities. Expect to encounter amenity-rich complexes with functions, fountains, and racquetball. There are downtown high-rises and bungalows in the social heart of the city. Also, with summer temperatures well over 90 degrees many of the apartment communities have awesome ways to help you beat the heat: outdoor areas with built in bbqs, pools and gyms. Some choose row houses near universities and in developing neighborhoods. Yes, you can even live near the Varsity if you crave those hot dogs that much... What'll ya have: Cumberland-Smyrna: Edge cities to Atlanta, the Cumberland-Smyrna areas are scaled down amalgams of financial districts and mega- family centric zones . Home to offices (more space here than in Miami), malls, hotels, and, recently, The Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre . This area, especially if you work herein, is one of those places you...

Rolling Hills Apartments, St. Paul, Minnesota

OVERVIEW “Wherever there is conflict in the world, a few years later you start to see that population showing up here,” says Andriana Abariotes, executive director of Twin Cities LISC ( Local Initiatives Support Corporation ). Minneapolis-St. Paul has a long history of welcoming immigrants and refugees from around the world and is home to many organizations serving these populations. St. Paul’s East Side, where LISC has worked for years, is home to a rich cultural mix of immigrants including Hmong , Somali, Karin, Bhutanese, Sudanese, Latinos and others, alongside Native and African Americans. “Wherever there is conflict in the world, a few years later you start to see that population showing up here.” “It is a hard to reach population,” says Amy Gillman at the LISC national office . These are “highly impoverished and culturally diverse residents , who face significant barriers to physical and social activities related to health.” To make matters worse , the city is experiencing a ...