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... RAY SUAREZ: Guglich expects his student body to double in size in the coming years, as oil workers bring their families to Williston and more affordable housing becomes available. Today, real estate prices here are on par with places like New York City and San Francisco. New residents are routinely ...
... homes stud the streets of Bloomington and its twin city, Normal, a former crack house where syringes littered the floor, an erstwhile empty lot now affordable housing for 10 families. Drive 15 minutes outside town, through Illinois' windswept fields and one its newest industries, power generation, and you will find ...
... struggling, we assess efforts by the government and lenders to deal with the problem. Andrew Jakabovics is head of research at Enterprise Community Partners, an affordable housing nonprofit. He was, until recently, an adviser at the Department of Housing and Urban Development. And Mark Calabria is a director of financial ...
... we're not doing this, we're not doing that. On the other hand, they would go to the government and say, we're doing affordable housing and higher-risk loans, and we are getting credit for that. So it really put them in a very difficult position. JUDY WOODRUFF ...
... was to essentially use high real-estate prices to justify Israel's expansion into what some consider disputed territory. "The government essentially says, 'You want housing? Here's housing, welcome to East Jerusalem!'" But he said that the young professionals driving these protests are not exactly settler material. "These people ...
In a long-awaited report, the Obama Administration unveiled a series of proposals today calling for the eventual end of the troubled and often-criticized mortgage financing giants, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Treasury and housing officials proposed options for a new system that would still likely have the government provide some assistance and a backstop for...
More than two years after the housing bubble collapsed and the financial crisis struck, one debate that looms large in Washington is about to be re-ignited Friday morning: What can and should be done about the housing giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac? The debate has roiled continuously for years between Republicans and Democrats. But...
Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul started off Thursday's first meeting of the Senate Tea Party Caucus on Capitol Hill with this question: "Is the Tea Party still a force in America?" The Republican's query was met with a roar in the affirmative from the crowd of about 150 Tea Party supporters who braved the remnants of...
A full two years after the financial crisis hit (and even longer if you look at the start of the housing bust), Americans are all too familiar with the gloom and disappointment that largely dominated the economic headlines this past year -- and appropriately captured much of our attention at the NewsHour in reports filed...
Ireland now faces the toughest budget in its history, and many wonder how a country once heralded as an economic beacon for smaller nations could have run into such troubles. Could housing, a big factor in its boom and bust, help its economy recover?
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