Recently my husband and I decided to buy a beautiful old home in the Skinker-DeBaliviere area.
Category: Housing
Is anyone else wondering why individual property owners, especially home-owners, are having trouble getting insurance when commercial property owners, according to the newspapers, have insurance on all those properties that burn so conveniently?
Any readers of The Paper who have had similar problems in obtaining loans to purchase or repair property in the neighborhood, could help the current campaign for fair lending practices by sending their names and addresses, and the name of the lending institutions dealt with, to The Paper, 6008 Kingsbury, St. Louis, Mo.
Residents of the Pershing area met recently with the Skinker-DeBaliviere Community Council to seek solutions to the problem of crime in their area which was the scene of three rapes in the past month.
Redevelopment plans for the "triangle area" were submitted, as scheduled, to the City Plan Commission on October 6th.
I am personally fed up with the insurance game.
We're all city dwellers.
The Executive Board of the Skinker-DeBaliviere Community Council, Inc. gave its approval to the redevelopment plan worked out by its Housing Committee and Team Four, an urban planning firm.
More black residents — both as owners and renters of housing units — constitute a major change in the Skinker-DeBaliviere area during the 1960s, census returns made public recently indicate.
Under the auspicies of the Skinker-DeBaliviere Community Council, the Residential Service covers several different areas.
Plans for the redevelopment of the "triangle area," the northeast corner of the Skinker-DeBaliviere area from Delmar back to Waterman and the 5800 block of DeGiverville are continuing.
The S-D Community Council has applied for a $40,000 grant from Region 5 of the Law Enforcement Assistance Agency to support a multi-purpose anti-crime program in the neighborhood.
