Squandered Heritage

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• bayoustjohndavid // Jul 2, 2008 at 10:10 pm

  Have you seen any signs of fresh paint on condemned houses? Looking at the 2008 budget, it appears that that NOAH’s NUCOAT program was allocated close to $3M this year, but over $8M last year. It’s hard to tell exactly what’s what on the city budget, but that under Neighborhood 1. NUROOF looks like it got $1.7M last year, nothing this year. Not sure which, if any, of those lines refer to the remediation. I would assume that if part of NOAH’s budget was under Neighborhood 1, it would all be; but that might be too logical and too transparent.

• NOAH and NORA | Squandered Heritage // Jul 20, 2008 at 5:50 pm

  […] This property is only one example of the endless properties which seem to skirt the rules. So it begs the question did NORA actually apply for remediation of a property that states it’s mission is to provide the service to elderly homeowners? I doubt it, NORA would have better things to do like reorganize and polish up a tarnished reputation than to cheat an elderly homeowner out of some much needed help. […]

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