Calvin Stuart, executive director of the Skinker-DeBaliviere Community Council, has asked HUD to let the Council or another party sponsor seven parcels of foreclosed property so that they can be rehabiliated.
Category: Housing
The Kingsbury Redevelopment Project has all but $5000. of the $40,000. seed money needed to start the project.
A guide for prospective home buyers in our area is available at the Council office.
The Residential Service reports that since February 1, 1972, it has been involved in the sale of 18 houses in this area.
Kingsbury Redevelopment Corporation, a subsidiary firm wholly owned by the Skinker-DeBaliviere Community Council, is continuing work on plans redevelopment of the "triangle area"..
A number of local block units, as well as the Council, are inquiring of federal mortgage insuring agencies about the disposition of repossessed homes in our neighborhood.
Beginning in the January semester, 10 students sponsored by the Ecumenical Campus Ministry at Washington University will be working for college credit in our neighborhood, particularly in the field of housing and real estate.
West End Townhouses, Inc., a limited dividend firm, founded by the late Phillip Lucier, to buy, renovate, rent and sell multiple family dwellings in the neighborhood, reports that it is completing readjustments caused by Mr. Lucier's sudden death in 1970.
Why are whites moving back into the Skinker-DeBaliviere area?
It probably didn’t surprise anyone in this neighborhood to read a recent article in the daily press stating that the ordinance requiring real estate companies to register the names of the straw parties they use in real estate transactions was being ignored by the real estate industry.
Crime is down in the 7th District and in the Skinker-DeBaliviere area (though the West End keeps its image as a high crime area).
THE RESIDENTIAL SERVICE OF Skinker-DeBaliviere Community Council, is a volunteer staffed, non-profit group who help prospective buyers find a home in this area.
