RACINE — A $7.2 million residential-retail development is being proposed for a West Racine block that’s been vacant since mid-2006.

Storm-condemned apartments spawning break-ins (Galveston County Daily News)

Neighbors of the condemned Ashton Place apartments say people have turned the buildings into a rent-free lair and that crime in the area has increased.

Rent discounts popping up as apartment vacancies climb (Tucson Citizen)

The economic downturn and a state law against hiring illegal immigrants have dramatically increased the number of vacant apartments in Tucson.

Chilling Audiotapes Released 4 Years After Fatal Fire (NBC New York)

Two New York City firefighters died as a result of a landlord's greed and his desire to get extra rent payments from illegally subdivided apartments, prosecutors said Monday.

Prosecutor: Firefighters from LI walked into 'death trap' (Newsday)

Opening statements in trial of two tenants, landlord charged in '05 death of two firefighters Greed and a desire to get extra rent payments from illegally subdivided apartments led to the deaths of two firefighters in a January 2005 blaze at a Bronx apartment building, a prosecutor said Monday in opening arguments of the manslaughter trial of two tenants and the landlord. ...