Habitat for Humanity International (HFHI), also called Habitat for Humanity, Christian ministry that builds and renovates housing for families in need.
Hengdian's strongest lure is its price: Xu builds, renovates, and offers his lots free of charge.
Its narrator, Henry Park, works as a spy for a private-detective agency, Glimmer & Company, in New York; Lee cleverly renovates elements of the traditional detective thriller, by making spying at once banal (one of Henry's jobs is to track a rising Korean-American politician) and emblematic of a wary immigrant caution, a sleeplessness poised between assimilation and alienation.
The students have been squatting in Bushwick while the School Construction Authority renovates a former hospital building.
The last thing an architect usually worries about when he renovates a landmark building is the original architect's sensibilities, because the original architect is usually dead.
Mentions interview with Arnold Graton, who builds and renovates CBs.
(Michael Gelb, who renovates houses for a living and is also an artist, lives in Massachusetts).
According to Frédéric Sola, owner of Fez Real Estate, a company that sells and renovates riads in the Medina, "Time stopped about five centuries ago.What you see in the Medina, you don't see anywhere else in the world".
Norman, who owns a real estate company that buys, renovates and resells foreclosed properties, is a vain, handsome cad who keeps an ex-lover on the string, strictly for sex, while toying with other women.
Mr. Barrett, a founder of Barrett Design and Development, renovates residential buildings for a living, so rather than seeing the house as a slightly disheveled pile of apartments, he saw a "blank canvas".
This book covers her passage into middle age, as she falls in love with a colleague, leaves her husband, shares custody of a daughter through adolescence, buys and renovates a house, fights off a ravaging real estate development and packs up the contents of her aging mother's beach house.
