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Tag: Housing

Plans and projects for improvements in parts of the 25th and 28th wards, comprising Region V of the Women for City Living were outlined at a meeting for local residents on October 12.
Recently my husband and I decided to buy a beautiful old home in the Skinker-DeBaliviere area.
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.
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.
Original printed diagram of census tracts 1051 and 1052; historical tract boundaries, not a newly created map.
Original printed diagram of census tracts 1051 and 1052; historical tract boundaries, not a newly created map.
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.
Original printed triangle-area redevelopment diagram with street labels; a historical illustration, not a newly drawn boundary.
Original printed triangle-area redevelopment diagram with street labels; a historical illustration, not a newly drawn boundary.

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St. Roch’s neighbors and friends are invited to Rochtoberfest, an evening of barbecue, good food and community fellowship on Saturday, November 7.

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Join us for a free concert and fundraiser to support The Times of Skinker DeBaliviere, St. Louis’ oldest neighborhood newspaper.

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