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A resolution heading to the Duluth City Council Monday could be the first step.

The city of Decatur will host three focused conversations toward the end of October. The sessions are designed to inform the community, gather community input, and answer questions from residents about potential zoning changes and policy recommendations.

CONWAY — The Way Station, a day resource center for the area’s homeless population, plans to use a $10,000 grant from the New Hampshire Charitable Foundation to study emergency housing options, say board members Jeannette Heidmann and the Revs. Nathan Hall and Gail Doktor. Doktor, pastor of the Jackson Community Church, said she and Hall, pastor of the Lutheran Church of the Nativity in North Conway, along with treasurer Heidmann and other volunteers, founded The Way Station two years...

OPINION: Housing has become the top challenge facing Cornwall March 7, 2021 Reading time: 4 min By Nick Seebruch This is a week where I have several things I’d like to comment and provide analysis that are all related to one big issue. Cornwall has a lot of big and important things going on and this past week in particular saw some significant developments that should not go unnoticed. Housing Cornwall’s Housing Task Force is ready to launch, and not a moment too soon. Th...

Province aims to extend rent freeze to end of 2021 SHARE ON: Pexels Stock Image Renters facing evictions or rent hikes at the end of the month will get another reprieve from the provincial government. The province intends to pass legislation extending the freeze on rent hikes in B.C. to the end of the year.  The changes will also cap future rent increases to inflation, stop illegal renovictions, and, the province says, “make the dispute resolution process better for tenants and landlords.�...

Posted: March 1, 2021 B.C. eyes continuing pandemic rent freeze The B.C. government is proposing legislative changes that, if passed, will extend the current pandemic rent freeze to Dec. 31, 2021. The changes will also cap future rent increases to inflation, stop illegal renovictions and make the dispute resolution process better for tenants and landlords. “The changes mean no more tenants will face eviction notices for phoney renovations that were never going to happen,” said Spencer Chan...

Article content And 2021 began with a second wave of the virus. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser. City has very ambitious agenda for 2021, says mayor Back to video “But this year won’t end book-ended by COVID,” Mayor Kevin Davis told city councillors and viewers of their virtual Zoom meeting on Tuesday. Davis’s annual address, more typically given in January, was delayed as the city continued to respond to the health crisis, which, so far, ...

Keith Carl said there’s much to be excited about for Dodge County and Fremont’s growth.

Article content The Leeds and Grenville Joint Services Committee will pay a Kemptville businessman $282,561 to rent two apartment units at an affordable rate for the next 10 years. In exchange for the money, the businessman must rent the apartments at 80 per cent of the average market rate, which would cost him $52,800 over the 10 years at today’s market values, according to figures presented to the committee last week. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your brow...

Changes approved in Minneapolis 2040 plan begin to take shape December 30, 2019 — 5:47am When Minneapolis leaders began hashing out their vision for the city’s growth, the conversation became almost philosophical, Council President Lisa Bender recalled at a meeting this year. “How is our city arranged? Who can live where? What do buildings look like and feel like?” The result was a 2040 Comprehensive Plan that eliminates single-family zoning, boosts affordable housing requiremen...