A year ago, Syria’s new leader pledged to 'close the notorious prisons' run by Bashar al-Assad. But prisons and detention ...

Maxwell, following Stavroff’s The Maxwell (656 beds, 140 parking spaces) and Subtext’s student housing (795 beds, 333 parking spaces). Together with Aylesford Action, a remarkable community-based ...

Though the Sharaa regime vowed to shutter Assad's notorious jails, tallies show they are locking hundreds of people up ...

How many more floods before Morocco invests in the city of Safi’s crumbling infrastructure? A storied Atlantic port where grinding waves, ancient fortresses, and centuries of pottery and sardine ...

The land bank is granted unique powers under state law, allowing it to clear titles quickly, eliminate liens and past claims and hold property without paying taxes.

Then came the second wave in late winter: Hundreds of people from Assad’s Alawite sect, mostly men, were seized by the new ...

Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan's blight removal program reduced the number of abandoned Land Bank homes from 47,000 to under 1,000 during his 12 years in office.

TOLEDO, Ohio (WTVG) - A woman’s body was found in the rubble of an abandoned, burned down home in Toledo’s Old South End.

Detroit has demolished roughly 27,000 abandoned houses and sold another 19,000 formerly vacant homes since Mayor Mike Duggan ...

This Kansas City neighborhood east of downtown had a reputation for crime and blight. But a broad effort to improve the local ...