Housing

Tenelle Winmore, a musician and educator, prides himself on living in north St. Louis where he grew up as a child. Now, he’s worried about his community being taken advantage of after the EF3 tornado on May 16.

The Nolan family and their next-door neighbors have had to find new housing after an EF3-grade tornado tore the roof off their home and caved in the ceiling.

The theater is part of the Marquette Homes project, which includes the rehabilitation of six buildings and construction of three others in the Gravois Park and Dutchtown neighborhoods.

The city set a target of 1,125 cases a year, but is off to a less ambitious start.

After more than two years of work, the Tiny House project in St. Louis’ Benton Park West neighborhood is complete.

The Staenberg Group has plans to redevelop the site into a “Downtown Chesterfield” with housing, retail spaces, restaurants and more. Developers expect it to be four years before people can start moving into new residential units.

Since April 2023, the project concentrated along the 3600 and 3700 blocks of Hebert Street has rehabilitated 10 homes and newly constructed eight.

It’s a project that takes cues from similar ones built across the country in recent years in places like Austin, Dallas, Phoenix and San Jose.

The federal government says new safety standards and building materials mean home buyers priced out of site-built houses have viable options. As storms become stronger and more frequent, experts are tempering expectations.

The nonprofit purchased properties to renovate or demolish existing houses and to construct new ones like those in the housing development, a 20-home subdivision called Lansdowne Park.