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In the US, evacuations ordered; Wash. residents go home

Published in Monday August 20th, 2012 In In the media

August 19, 2012 Thunderstorms and lightning threatened fire officials’ plans to contain a large blaze in central Washington state as hundreds of Washington and California residents returned home to find out whether their homes were spared. In Idaho, authorities on Saturday issued a mandatory evacuation order for some 350 homes in the area around Featherville […]

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Repair New York City’s Housing Issues

Published in Tuesday August 14th, 2012 In In the media

August 13, 2012 More than 650,000 people live in housing that is controlled or subsidized by the New York City Housing Authority. Too many have to wait for months for needed repairs to leaking plumbing and other problems. In an estimated 10,000 apartments, repairs are not scheduled until 2014. This is clearly unacceptable. The question is […]

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In the US, California affordable housing projects suffer from loss of funding

Published in Monday August 13th, 2012 In In the media

August 12, 2012 By Alexandra Zavis and Jessica Garrison Duroville trailer park residents are among the victims of a loss of state and federal funding that affordable housing projects had historically relied on. Four years after a dilapidated Coachella Valley trailer park known as Duroville became a national symbol of slum housing, Riverside County officials […]

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In the US, the one housing solution left: mass mortgage refinancing

Published in Monday August 13th, 2012 In Opinion

August 12, 2012 By JOSEPH E. STIGLITZ and MARK ZANDI MORE than four million Americans have lost their homes since the housing bubble began bursting six years ago. An additional 3.5 million homeowners are in the foreclosure process or are so delinquent on payments that they will be soon. With 13.5 million homeowners underwater — they owe more […]

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Affordable housing projects get state financial boost in the US

Published in Monday August 6th, 2012 In In the media

August 3rd, 2012 by Claire Bessette Several local projects, including a planned conversion of the historic Ponemah Mill in Norwich, will receive state grants or loans in a major affordable housing investment announced Thursday by Gov. Dannel P. Malloy. The Lofts at Ponemah Mills, a 116-unit project at the Taftville mill, was awarded $3 million […]

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AARP Study Say Ethnic Elders Slammed Hardest by Foreclosures

Published in Thursday July 19th, 2012 In In the media

19 de julho de 2012 The mortgage crisis has slammed every age group—especially the oldest Americans 75-plus—and has hit Latino and African American seniors and their families the hardest, according to a study being released today by AARP. About 1.5 million people ages 50 or older lost their homes to foreclosure from 2007 to 2011, […]

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In the US, 190 migrant workers to remain in vacant South Bend nursing home

Published in Monday July 16th, 2012 In In the media

July 14, 2012 A building once used as a nursing home has now been turned into housing for more than 150 migrant workers. The order to evict nearly 200 migrant workers from a former South Bend nursing home has been dropped. The about-face comes just one day after the city’s code enforcement department flexed its […]

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California foreclosure overhaul signed into law in the United States

Published in Thursday July 12th, 2012 In In the media

Last week, California lawmakers passed the legislation that would provide homeowners with some of the nation’s strongest protections from foreclosure and aggressive bank practices. For instance, seizing a home while the owner is negotiating to lower mortgage payments will be restricted. At a signing ceremony in downtown Los Angeles, Brown said that the measures were an important step for an economy still suffering the fallout of the subprime mortgage crisis and housing bust.

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In the US, affordable housing is still scarce according to experts

Published in Tuesday July 10th, 2012 In In the media

July 8, 2012 Official says public housing needs growing as market rents rise While there have been signs that the economy is picking up, lower income people are still finding it a challenge to find affordable housing, local experts say. The impact of the struggling economy has caused people to spend more on housing that […]

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In the US, homeless housing project sparks worry it could harm downtown business

Published in Tuesday July 10th, 2012 In In the media

July 9, 2012 A new apartment building, intended to bring stability to Bellingham’s worst homeless cases, has received local backing and is likely to be built – even as some local leaders worry the project would hurt downtown business. If the project is fully funded and built, the Catholic Housing Services project at 1100 Cornwall […]

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