• Are adult foster homes a good long-term care option?

    Are adult foster homes a good long-term care option?

    Jul 15, 2018 02:52 PM EDT

    ... home nearby and help guide you to other community services. As the population of older adults continues to increase, so will the need for supportive, affordable, community-based housing. “They're going to be sicker, they're going to be a less financially stable, have less assets, have fewer children ...

  • Architecture becomes a tool to fight poverty through this Pritzker winner

    Architecture becomes a tool to fight poverty through this Pritzker winner

    Jan 14, 2016 12:52 AM EDT

    ... Alejandro Aravena, it's a practical and aesthetic solution to a real world problem: growing urban populations and too little public money available to build affordable, but livable housing. ALEJANDRO ARAVENA: It's not half of a house. It's half of a good house. And the good is the ...

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    Protecting Its Fannie: How Mortgage Giant Primed the Bubble, Covered Its Assets

    Jul 01, 2011 10:26 PM EDT

    ... comment on any of the charges in the book. But its supporters say it was trying to do something almost all politicians believed in: making housing more affordable for more people, especially the less well-off. So, isn't homeownership good social policy? GRETCHEN MORGENSON: Not if you're giving ...

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    Dismal Home Sales Report Renews Economic Recovery Concerns

    Aug 24, 2010 09:38 PM EDT

    ... mortgage rates are low, people buy more houses. It's not working this time. Why? SUSAN WACHTER: Mortgage rates are at historic lows, and also housing prices have fallen, so that housing is affordable. But the fears of weak job growth, possibly losing a job, possibly the fact that wages ...

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    New Details Emerge on Mortgage Relief Plan

    Mar 04, 2009 09:30 PM EDT

    ... families avoid foreclosure. In a statement, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said that "it is imperative that we continue to move with speed to help make housing more affordable and help arrest the damaging spiral in our housing markets, just as we work to stabilize our financial system, create jobs and ...

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    Public Housing Renewal

    Sep 18, 2003 04:00 AM EDT

    ... realize their full potential to become whatever they want to become in life. There is no way you would have mixed income communities of public affordable market rate housing if you were going to have CHA as nothing more than a dumping ground again. It would never work. ELIZABETH BRACKETT ...

  • How Lahaina is recovering 3 years after the devastating fires

    How Lahaina is recovering 3 years after the devastating fires

    Aug 07, 2026 10:25 PM EDT

    Carolyn Auweloa: When you buy a Community Land Trust home, you're committing to owner occupancy, you or your family, and it ensures that this home will always be forever affordable. Stephanie Sy: While housing construction has begun in earnest, the historic town's commercial core is still hollowed out ...

  • Brooks and Capehart on the busy first week of the new Trump administration

    Brooks and Capehart on the busy first week of the new Trump administration

    Jan 24, 2025 11:30 PM EDT

    ... she could have been able to do it, but Trump did it. And so we have much greater grounds to hopefully the home building. And housing can be affordable for young people. So that's a very positive thing that Trump people did. On immigration, I obviously don't approve ...

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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 ...