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    U.S. Economy Endures Slowest GDP Growth in Two Years

    Apr 28, 2005 04:00 AM EDT

    ... lot of construction of second homes. RAY SUAREZ: What about the upper Midwest, Carl Tannenbaum? This is a place that's been known for being affordable for a long time. Are there winners and losers in your region? CARL TANNENBAUM: Generally housing remains both affordable and very busy. Construction is ...

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    Pathways to Housing for the Homeless Mentally Ill

    Dec 30, 2002 05:00 AM EDT

    ... for $25, so now that's $45, okay? BETTY ANN BOWSER: Eckblad and Peterson are case managers for a New York organization called Pathways to Housing. It finds affordable apartments for mentally ill homeless people. Leaders in the field are watching what Pathways is doing because the nation's homeless ...

  • This guaranteed income experiment looks to reverse 'history of judgement' on people in poverty

    This guaranteed income experiment looks to reverse 'history of judgement' on people in poverty

    Mar 21, 2021 09:47 PM EDT

    ... for families to find-- affordable spaces outside of-- subsidized housing.  Zachary Green: Claire Cousin grew up in Hudson and now sits on the city’s housing authority.  Claire Cousin: Most people that have children are only looking to get on wait lists for subsidized housing because that's the only ...

  • Hurricane Katrina exposed ‘deeper tragedy’ of inequality, says Obama

    Hurricane Katrina exposed ‘deeper tragedy’ of inequality, says Obama

    Aug 27, 2015 11:29 PM EDT

    ... had for too long been plagued by structural inequalities that left too many people, especially poor people, especially people of color, without good jobs or affordable health care or decent housing. JUDY WOODRUFF: As a candidate in 2008, Mr. Obama sharply criticized then President George W. Bush for his administration ...

  • Obama says New Orleans is 'moving forward' after hurricane

    Obama says New Orleans is 'moving forward' after hurricane

    Aug 27, 2015 11:49 AM EDT

    ... In the speech, Obama says Katrina helped expose structural inequalities that long plagued New Orleans and left too many people, especially minorities, without good jobs, affordable health care or decent housing and too many kids growing up in the midst of violent crime and attending inefficient schools. Ten years out ...

  • WATCH: 'We all know' Trump is not making your life more affordable, Spanberger says

    WATCH: 'We all know' Trump is not making your life more affordable, Spanberger says

    Feb 25, 2026 04:57 AM EDT

    ... the official Democratic response to the president’s speech, Spanberger stressed how Trump’s policies on a host of daily issues, from health care to housing, hasn’t made life more affordable. Instead, Democrats have been “laser-focused on affordability” in communities across the country, Spanberger said. “Americans deserve to ...

  • How young Michigan voters feel about Biden, Trump and the upcoming election

    How young Michigan voters feel about Biden, Trump and the upcoming election

    May 02, 2024 10:30 PM EDT

    ... has -- for the average person in the U.S. has kind of not been so well. Everything is more priced. I don't think that housing is going to be affordable for a lot of people, and inflation is crazy. People are being overworked, but, like, not getting paid enough ...

  • Did the nation's largest housing recovery initiative work?

    Did the nation's largest housing recovery initiative work?

    Nov 19, 2015 03:06 PM EDT

    ... Refinancing Program" (NBER Working Paper No. 21512), Sumit Agarwal, Gene Amromin, Souphala Chomsisengphet,Tomasz Piskorski, Amit Seru and Vincent Yao examine the nation's largest housing recovery initiative, the Home Affordable Refinancing Program (HARP). They find that it spurred substantial mortgage refinancing activity and freed up resources for households to ...

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    Obama to Announce Major Expansion of Mortgage Relief Program

    Mar 26, 2010 01:51 PM EDT

    ... for at least three months and possibly as much as six months. Offering new incentives to lenders to modify second mortgages and asking the Federal Housing Administration to offer more affordable loans to some borrowers who are considered "under water." (Nearly one-fifth of all mortgages are now said to ...

  • Trump picks Project 2025 architect Russell Vought to return as top budget official

    Trump picks Project 2025 architect Russell Vought to return as top budget official

    Nov 23, 2024 12:27 AM EDT

    ... Health and Human Services Department in large part through how Medicaid and Medicare funds are distributed. It also contains about $642 billion in cuts to Affordable Care Act. The budgets for the Housing and Urban Development and Education departments would also be cut. Vought’s budget ideas were independent of ...