• Obama to announce Julian Castro for housing secretary post

    Obama to announce Julian Castro for housing secretary post

    May 23, 2014 01:40 PM EDT

    ... Hispanic officials serving at the pleasure of the president. Donovan, 48, is highly regarded inside the White House as a strong manager. He is an affordable housing advocate whose work overseeing the federal government's response to the destruction Hurricane Sandy unleashed on the East Coast in October 2012 has ...

  • Cities crack down on homeless living in vehicles

    Cities crack down on homeless living in vehicles

    Apr 18, 2014 10:55 PM EDT

    As U.S. home prices continue to rise and apartment vacancy rates drop, the lack of affordable housing has even edged the most vulnerable -- the homeless -- out of their cars and into the streets. The Wall Street Journal reports that at least 70 cities in the nation have passed laws ...

  • Foster families find and share support with elders at Oregon housing community

    Foster families find and share support with elders at Oregon housing community

    Apr 16, 2014 01:03 AM EDT

    ... JUDY WOODRUFF: Picking up on what we just heard, next, turning the corner -- about 15 percent of seniors in the U.S. live below the poverty line and many struggle to find affordable housing. But a unique community in Oregon is offering low-income seniors reduced rents, in exchange ...

  • The housing crisis: What's the Fed's excuse?

    The housing crisis: What's the Fed's excuse?

    Feb 06, 2014 06:32 PM EDT

    ... Fed testimony about the 2004 Bank of America-FleetBank merger, “So when they [Bank of America] say they’re going to commit $750 billion [in affordable housing lending] we take that to the bank.” As of 2012, NACA had obtained more than $13 billion in bank commitments for its loan ...

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    Homeless resident impacted by shutdown gets a helping hand from anonymous NewsHour viewer

    Oct 14, 2013 06:35 PM EDT

    ... Kim and I reported on how the government shutdown has delayed seventeen homeless San Francisco residents from moving into federally subsidized apartments in a new affordable housing building called Bayview Hill Gardens. One of those impacted was Dior Hall, a 36 year-old, part-time Walgreens cashier, who had been ...

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    Moving to paradise for cheaper retirement

    Sep 24, 2013 02:58 PM EDT

    Finding it too expensive to stay in North America and northern Europe, some retirees are moving to tropical destinations where they can live on less than $40 a day. Many countries in South America and Southeast Asia feature low costs of medicine, affordable housing, and large English-speaking retirement communities ...

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    Chinese Factories Build Troubled Relationships

    Jul 17, 2013 09:40 PM EDT

    ... China’s migrant workers feel like “outsiders,” despite working in a city for years. As non-local residents, migrant workers don’t have access to affordable housing and certain basic needs. Reuters also reported a slowdown in the average monthly wage for migrant workers, dropping from 21.2 percent in ...

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    Exit Interview: Barney Frank Reflects on Successes, Regrets, Future Plans

    Dec 26, 2012 11:47 PM EDT

    ... the prejudice by being visible about it, helping to block the conviction of Bill Clinton of impeachment. I have done a lot of work for affordable housing, rental housing. I understand the rap on me and other liberals is, oh, we push poor people into homeownership. And it's exactly ...

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    From Homeless to Homecoming and Beyond

    Nov 15, 2012 11:39 PM EDT

    ... Families account for one third of the national homeless population. Those circumstances can be due to a host of reasons such as the lack of affordable housing, limited government assistance and other hardships like unemployment and domestic abuse.When 53 percent of homeless mothers themselves lack a high school diploma ...

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    Faces of China's New Government

    Nov 15, 2012 10:42 PM EDT

    China unveiled its new Communist Party leadership Wednesday night.