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• Funds would boost housing

  November 2, 2011 in City on Page A5 OLYMPIA – More than $9.7 million in state funds is being offered to housing projects for low-income families, seniors and the disabled in the Spokane area. The state Department of …

• Grant to Catholic Charities enables housing for poor

  January 15, 2011 in City on Page A5 Catholic Charities of Spokane announced plans to build a downtown housing complex for the city’s poorest residents to be financed almost entirely by a $2.5 million state grant. The 50-unit … 3

• Displaced tenants going home

  May 29, 2010 in City on Page A1 Nearly half of the 41 tenants of a South Hill apartment building were allowed to return to their homes on Friday, three weeks after they were displaced by a suspected … 3

• South Hill tenants displaced by fire return home

  May 28, 2010 in City Nearly half of the 41 tenants of a South Hill apartment building were allowed to return to their homes today, three weeks after they were displaced by a suspected arson … 1

• More than a store

  May 15, 2010 in City on Page A1 The two-bedroom apartment William Plew recently landed in Post Falls is right across from his son’s school. With assistance from St. Vincent de Paul of North Idaho, the 55-year-old formerly … 3

• Need urgent for displaced residents

  May 14, 2010 in City on Page A7 About two dozen of Spokane’s most vulnerable residents are in urgent need of the community’s help after being made homeless by a suspected arson fire on Saturday. In a city … 1

• No-cost deal seeks low-income homes

  October 17, 2009 in Washington Voices on Page V4 Developers would be allowed to exceed density limits under a proposal to increase low-income housing in Spokane Valley. The plan is proposed by the city planning staff in cooperation with …

• Stimulus benefits housing for poor

  July 8, 2009 in Idaho on Page A1 When Salem Lutheran Church in Spokane’s West Central neighborhood started looking at what really was the best use for land it owned behind and across the street from the church, …

• Stimulus gives boost to low-income housing

  July 7, 2009 in Region When Salem Lutheran Church in Spokane’s West Central neighborhood started looking at what really was the best use for land it owned behind and across the street from the church, … 1

• Low-income housing may return

  March 26, 2009 in City on Page A5 Two years after nearly 50 tenants of the Commercial Building were displaced by a high-tech manufacturing company, the downtown apartments may once again house low-income residents. A federal judge has …

• Commercial Building might offer housing again

  March 25, 2009 in City Two years after nearly 50 tenants of the Commercial Building were displaced by a high-tech manufacturing company, the downtown apartments may once again house low-income residents.

• Group gets grant for affordable elderly housing

  January 14, 2009 in Idaho St. Vincent de Paul in North Idaho has been awarded a $3.8 million federal housing grant to help subsidize 37 units of affordable housing for elderly.

• BlueRay selling top two floors

  April 30, 2008 in Business on Page A10 Less than a year after BlueRay Technologies Inc. displaced nearly 50 poor tenants from apartments on the top two floors of the downtown Commercial Building – sparking a lawsuit by …

• City said Martindale overcharged government

  April 19, 2008 in City on Page B1 A public-private deal to provide low-income housing in Hillyard was doomed soon after it began when the city concluded the government was being overcharged for rental units for the chronically …

• Closure likely for Martindale

  April 10, 2008 in City on Page B1 At a time when Spokane is desperately in need of affordable housing, a 51-unit, low-income apartment building in Hillyard likely will close because its former management company hasn’t paid utility …

• Affordable housing bid made

  January 26, 2008 in City on Page B1 Two Spokane nonprofit organizations have joined with one of the region’s largest residential builders in an attempt to buy more than 200 former Fairchild Air Force Base residences and convert …

• Glitches stall housing lottery

  October 18, 2007 in City on Page B3 A lottery designed to help low-income people get housing vouchers suffered several setbacks during its debut Wednesday, as its phone system failed and a press release sent applicants to a …

• Housing aid needs to go beyond window dressing

  June 27, 2007 in City on Page B1 I’m confused. Tomorrow, there’s a landlord- tenant housing fair set up at the Music City Annex Building on West First Avenue, in an attempt to help the tenants being evicted …