To help pay for the costs, apartment groups are looking for additional financial support, such as breaks on property and state income taxes and business license and building permit fees for owners who retrofit.
Another difference between now and the 1960s is the Nimby mentality and the ability of suburban neighborhoods to mobilize to stop anything — ritzy shopping malls, apartments, group homes — seen as a threat to property values and schools.
He bounces among apartments, group homes and the Alaska Psychiatric Institute, the state-run mental hospital in Anchorage, mumbling about the Secret Service and other favorite topics to anyone who will listen.
He sought to replace the slab design of high-rise blocks with apartments grouped in a circle around a central court, giving residents the light and privacy that rectilinear, long-corridor construction lacks.
Real estate companies seeking to sell hundreds of apartments grouped in dozens of complexes across the capital city of Santiago and the seaside resort of Vina del Mar conducted a coordinated sale at the weekend, imitating traditional late-night efforts in Latin America's retail sector.
But an empty apartment or group of apartments cannot be turned into makeshift hostels.
By now Wright's practice encompassed apartment houses, group dwellings, and recreation centres.
The owners, Kitti Lirtpanaruk and Lenny Limleartvate, left the rest up to him and his team, the Apartment design group.
Leaders of the city's largest apartment landlord group, the Rent Stabilization Association, said they had not seen the final codes but generally supported an earlier draft as long overdue.
Essex was able to ride the wave of strong occupancy and rent fundamentals in the apartment REIT group.
