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• Looking Forward

  RALEIGH, N.C.—State officials here are done worrying about the credit crisis, which stranded hundreds of affordable housing developers without investors to buy their low-income housing tax credits (LIHTCs).

• A Storm and a Study Raise Erosion Concerns

• After the Flood

  Drivers along Interstate 10, tracing the Gulf Coast from the Florida panhandle through Alabama to Mississippi, can still see wreckage left behind by the hurricanes of 2005

• Portland Weathers Storm

  Portland, Ore.—Trammell Crow Residential (TCR) has placed a big bet on the Portland area, building new projects ranging from a 22-story high-rise at Alexan South Waterfront to 274 garden apartments at Miraval at Villebois and 188 rentals mixed with retail space at North Mississippi Apartments.

• Renovation Station

  Jackson, Miss. — For a city that’s lost more than 20,000 residents over the past two decades, this town has a lot of development in the pipeline. More than $1.6 billion in commercial and residential real estate investment is poised to pour into the downtown area of Mississippi’s capital city...

• Wild Winds and Rolling Waters

  Despite months of front-page Hurricane Katrina news coverage in 2005, building codes and enforcement practices continue to vary greatly. Moreover, surprisingly little is known about how hurricane winds pull apart and drive rain into homes — and what affordable measures can seal them tight. Plus...