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JustShelter: Housing Anniversaries
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JustShelter project news, plus news on sustainability, affordable housing, and urban design. Friday, 29 March 2013. My goal is to be there to celebrate the projects I am starting today. See the St. Catharines Standard insert. On the BP anniversary. Posted by Dick Halverson. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). For over 30 years we served as development consultants working with first time or infrequent developers of non-profit or for-profit housing, schools, and other facilities. Contact us by email.
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JustShelter: Trees have property value
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JustShelter project news, plus news on sustainability, affordable housing, and urban design. Monday, 31 October 2011. Trees have property value. Plant a Tree, Boost Your Property Value. I've know it for years, but had no real proof. Trees add value to property. Trees imply permanence, continuity with nature, privacy from neighbours, and above all, shade - no pun intended. Not happy at all. They intuitively feel the value of the own property decline. Nice quote: Best time to plant a tree?
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JustShelter: More Damage to Niagara Cities
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JustShelter project news, plus news on sustainability, affordable housing, and urban design. Tuesday, 3 July 2012. More Damage to Niagara Cities. Proposed Outlet Mall in NOTL. Note the guard towers at entrances to keep out pedestrians. 65279;On the June 8th Standard front page we saw three hospital sites are leaked and an “XL retail outlet” for NOTL proposed, all of them outside urban areas. Why are we again going to hurt ourselves? For years we have known we must be smarter about development to red...
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JustShelter: CBC Coverage of Cordage Green
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JustShelter project news, plus news on sustainability, affordable housing, and urban design. Monday, 25 June 2012. CBC Coverage of Cordage Green. We had an excellent bit of coverage on the CBC National on Cordage Green. What is most exciting about this project is the broad support we have in the community. This is going to be extraordinary. The comment in the video about homes at $100 ft2 is unfortunate. That would be construction costs only. Keep track of the progress at www.cordagegreen.ca.
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JustShelter: New Kiwanis Seniors Project
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JustShelter project news, plus news on sustainability, affordable housing, and urban design. Monday, 20 December 2010. New Kiwanis Seniors Project. Mayor Brian McMullan speaking at the announcement of funding for the Kiwanis Project on Geneva Street. The 40 unit, 6 story building will add to the 100 seniors units already on site next to the Fairview Mall. Also on hand was the Regional council Chair, Peter Partington, MPP Jim Bradley, and MP Rick Dykstra. Posted by Dick Halverson. Contact us by email.
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JustShelter: Oil crunch
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JustShelter project news, plus news on sustainability, affordable housing, and urban design. Wednesday, 11 November 2009. It has been awhile since posting anything here. So here are some miscellaneous items around a predicted energy crunch:. From popular science an interesting chart that is likely wildly optimistic and news of several former staff members. “ IEA Whistleblower Claims Agency Has Downplayed Looming Oil Shortage. To back up the concern, here is a recent Glob and Mail blog by Jeff Rubin.
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JustShelter: Myth of Aging in Place
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JustShelter project news, plus news on sustainability, affordable housing, and urban design. Saturday, 25 August 2012. Myth of Aging in Place. One of our projects is in Niagara Falls where Covenant Care Niagara is working to create a new kind of nursing home in Ontario where aging is not considered an illness suitable for a large institution, but a fact of life, where, in a small setting, life continues to be meaningful, relevant, and important. Posted by Dick Halverson. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).
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JustShelter: Valley Way Project
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JustShelter project news, plus news on sustainability, affordable housing, and urban design. Monday, 20 December 2010. Construction is underway at 6009 Valley Way, converting the old St. Michaels High School into 34 apartment units for seniors. Occupancy is scheduled for June 1st. We are the development consultants. This is the first phase for this project that will later include life lease independent and assisted living units. Posted by Dick Halverson. Labels: Project: Valley Way. Contact us by email.
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JustShelter: One-fifth of Canadians can’t afford their homes
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JustShelter project news, plus news on sustainability, affordable housing, and urban design. Tuesday, 30 March 2010. One-fifth of Canadians can’t afford their homes. This is quite sad. One in four can not afford to own their own home, counting those who living in subsidized housing. While home ownership is not a right or often not desirable, this is not about choice, it is about an unequal distribution of wealth. From theToront Star:. Truggling to cope with the cost of their homes. Contact us by email.
