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...Haas said that most of the violence is drug-related, but both he and Mayor E. Denise Simmons said that rumors of an escalating drug war are not currently substantiated...
...Miami-Dade County, to the south, where 1 in 4 homeowners is 30 days or more behind in his or her mortgage payments, residents are bracing for what Mayor Carlos Alvarez says could be an imminent property-tax hike to fill an almost $400 million budget hole - a move that veteran Miami realtors like Alex Shay insist would set recovery back. "It's out of line," says Shay, who recently took Alvarez to task on his Miami Real Estate blog. "A lot of people here are barely holding on to their properties, using credit-card advances to pay escrow...
...lower assessments. And real estate experts like Paul say onerous tax bills aren't proving too large a hindrance to foreclosed-home purchases. The bigger concern is that during the boom, many local governments spent their revenue windfalls like sailors, which makes taxpayers less sympathetic to their budget whining. Mayor Alvarez insisted this month that "it's almost impossible that we can achieve an acceptable budget" without a property-tax increase. But because Miami-Dade residents saw so much official profligacy during the housing bubble - county commissioners were famous for having cops chauffeur them around town, which cost hundreds...
Fixing Joburg means reuniting it. Mayor Amos Masondo's plan for "ensuring sustainable shared growth that benefits all" aims to do just that. And he has had some success. Businesses and restaurants have returned to the inner city, encouraged by new infrastructure projects like the Newtown Cultural Precinct, and crime is off its peak since the installation of hundreds of security cameras...
...edge of town. The apartheid government decided blacks had no need for not only freedom, fair wages and a decent education but also roads, trees and houses. Soweto was a place of tin shacks and red dirt. As part of the effort to redress this legacy of inequality, the mayor has repaved Soweto's main roads, and Williamson invented his extreme park missions...