A new affordable housing complex has moved into Topeka. Woodland Park Apartment Homes at Soldier Creek offers 1, 2, and 3 bedroom units. They have a total of 236 apartments available for rent. Most of them are two bedrooms.

Simple business practices determine rent (Daily Illini)

Before landlords could start touring and leasing apartments for next year, they had to get one thing set: the rent. Determining the cost of monthly rent for an apartment comes down to simple supply and demand, said Michael Jay, director of public relations for Campus Property Management.

Three years later, 6,500 subsidized New Orleans apartments fester (New Orleans Times-Picayune)

More than three years after Hurricane Katrina, nearly 6,500 privately owned, federally subsidized apartments sit unrepaired in the state of Louisiana. Most -- about 4,000 -- are in the New Orleans area.

AGENT TAKES 100G RENT MONEY AND RUNS: COPS (New York Post)

A con artist real-estate agent tricked a prospective tenant out of two years' rent - $100,000 - for two apartments, authorities said. The woman handed over her life savings to Leif Lopez, a licensed broker she met on craigslist and who had...

For sale: glass house (Boston Globe)

Since she lost the Democratic primary last month, State Senator Dianne Wilkerson and her supporters have been blaming Cambridge philanthropist Barbara Lee.