The Residential Service is a volunteer, non-profit group which is interested in maintaining the stability of the neighborhood.
Tag: Fair Housing
We have had another instance of a person seeking conventional financing for a home in our area and again coming up against a blank wall.
Recent reports indicate that St. Louis will be obtaining special federal funds because it is a city whose residents have fled the central city with unusual speed.
The first feedback on the redevelopment plan for the "triangle area" indicated to the Skinker-DeBaliviere Community Council Board that the issue of subsidized housing was going to be criticized both by those who think the projected percentage of such housing too high, and also by opposing groups who think the percentage too low.
The Residential Service has filed a complaint with the Justice Department regarding a real estate speculator who has operated in the neighborhood in a discriminatory manner.
Kenneth Cohen, chairman of the Rosedale-Skinker Association is a young old-timer in the neighborhood.
“Sure this neighborhood is integrated.
The problem of loans, mortgages and financing for city property has not changed since the last issue.
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.
