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Across Florida, Buildings Are Quietly and Quickly Being Assembled with Real-Life LEGO Bricks

A Florida construction firm is seeing fast adoption of its intuitively-made building blocks that work like real-life LEGO bricks. The interlocking blocks made of a mineral composite and reinforced with glass fiber can be quickly and quietly assembled into walls, floors, and even roofs, with a special adhesive and a rubber mallet being the only… Keep Reading

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Seven Watertown houses renovated under city program

The city set out to get eight rundown houses fixed up and back on the tax rolls. Seven of them are moving along, with hope for the eighth. The eight houses are under a city program to attract developers for rehabilitation and bring them back to life. The city Planning Department used a request for… Keep Reading

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Military Veterans Who Lost Limbs Receive Mortgage-Free Homes to Honor Their Service

Across the country, soldiers who came home mangled from the wars in the Middle East are receiving mortgage-free homes as a small measure of gratitude and honor for their sacrifices. In DeForest, Wisconsin, a medically-retired former Sergeant Tory Honda was recently given the keys to a new mortgage-free home. Walking through it alongside television cameras,… Keep Reading

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Apple Committed $2.5 Billion to Build Affordable House and Thousands of Units Have Already been Built

Citing a profound civic responsibility in the tech-heavy city of San Jose, CEO of Apple Inc. Tim Cook created a corporate fund to advance affordable housing projects in the city four years ago. Now, $1.5 billion has already been spent, and it’s resulted in the creation of thousands of housing units across the city and… Keep Reading

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Plans emerge for homeless, low-income housing project on Watertown’s Main Avenue

For the second time in as many months, the city’s Planning Commission will consider a large affordable housing facility in the city, this time a 61-unit building on the city’s north side. The city’s Planning Commission will see plans for the first time on Tuesday for a four-story housing facility for the homeless and seriously… Keep Reading

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Detroit Students Build a House–Then Deliver the Entire Structure For Low Income Housing

It was a surreal sight for Pedro Rivera, a whole house was on the back of a trailer driving down a Detroit suburban road; a house that he and his friends had built with their own hands. “All my friends, we all looked at each other like, ‘Wow, this is what we did,’” Rivera, a… Keep Reading

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Jefferson County’s homelessness committee announces recommendations for local solutions

Jefferson County’s Homeless Project Steering Committee has made its final recommendations on how to address homelessness and housing insecurity. In a wide-ranging presentation on Wednesday at the Children’s Home of Jefferson County’s State Street campus, some of the key members of the committee announced the product of over a year’s worth of research, brainstorming, outreach… Keep Reading

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Watertown’s Main Avenue shelter to stay open, with no closing date in view

WATERTOWN — The temporary shelter on Watertown’s Main Avenue will likely stay open indefinitely as officials continue to search for solutions to the county’s housing shortage. Legislator Anthony J. Doldo, who represents the northwest part of the city where the shelter is and chairs the county’s Health and Human Services Committee, said Tuesday that there… Keep Reading

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Homeless shelter to remain open; Jefferson County unsure how long

It came just shy of a month ago. Local business owner PJ Simao, donating his – not currently in use – auto body shop in Watertown as a place where the local homeless population could get out of the cold and snow this winter. Many had been setting up tents in a city pavilion. It… Keep Reading

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ACR Health cleans up debris at vacant Butler Pavilion as homeless residents shelter on Main Avenue

WATERTOWN — Piles of clothing, firewood, tent poles and rotting fruit were among heaps of debris cleared from the Butler Pavilion this week. ACR Health began digging out what residents left behind when they moved into a makeshift shelter on Main Avenue ahead of the storm that arrived Nov. 18. The lake-effect storm dumped more than 5… Keep Reading