Posts relating to “"housing"” (24184)

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1. Residential Investment: Moving Sideways

   
   Calculated Risk — Authority 738
   Weak new home sales and housing starts is both good and bad news. One of the key economic problems right now is there […] are too many housing units 1 . This excess inventory includes a large number of single family homes, and a record number […] of vacant rental units. So fewer housing starts means population and household growth will absorb the excess housing
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2. At last, some sense on housing | Shaun Spiers

   
   The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority 986
   Healey, the minister for housing and planning, made a remarkable speech this week that has received far too little coverage […] . Beyond that, anything that appears to question the idea that ownership is the one desirable form of housing tenure is bound […] to be controversial. Healeys energetic shadow, Grant Shapps, quickly tweeted a response : "Housing minister confirms
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3. County gets $11 million federal grant for homeless services

   
   OC Watchdog — Authority 466
   The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development  just awarded the county $11 million for homeless assistance […] supportive housing for the disabled and special needs homeless populations, according to a prepared statement from the county […] to 36 different programs, as follows: American Family Housing ,$419,662 for 36 beds, supportive services, and
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4. Social policy in the noughties: housing

   
   The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority 986
   Housing returned to the political agenda at the start of the decade, but how has it fared since? Peter Hetherington […] reports Housing became a political battlground as the new decade dawned – but for all the wrong reasons. Early 2000 marked […] a portfolio embracing housing and the environment, John Prescott was keen to steer a middle course after a government
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5. The Goldman Housing Scandal Isnt A Scandal: Its Inevitable

   
   The Business Insider — Authority 748
   derivatives (synthetic CDOs) to allow investors to bet on the housing market, sold the CDOs to clients who wanted to bet on […] additional housing market gains, and then went short the same CDOs because Goldman believed the housing market would crash. The […] housing scenario above is as follows: Clients are desperate for products with which to bet on the housing market We can
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6. The professionals: Social housing requires managers with a variety of …

   
   The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority 986
   With slashed budgets and increased demand, social housing requires managers with a variety of skills When Paul Gatrill […] experience, was placed at CityWest in 2005 by interim management agency Impact Executives. Although social housing interim work […] pressure With an estimated 1.7m English households on waiting lists, the pressure on the social housing sector is enormous
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7. (LYTS) Housing Starts and Building Permits Rebound

   
   Stock Blog Hub — Authority 461
   This morning’s release of data on Building Permits and Housing Starts show that the housing sector rebounded in […] November after an awful October. Looking first at Housing Starts, they rose by 8.9% to an annual rate of 574,000 up from 527 […] ,000 in October. The October number for housing starts was originally reported as 529,000. The rate last month was 12.4% below
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8. Can you solve the housing puzzle?

   
   NBCSports.com: Other sports — Authority 905
   Here’s a holiday treat from us: a housing puzzle -- an old-fashioned double jumble -- to keep the mind fresh this
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9. Stocks finish slightly higher despite housing data

   
   The Washington Post — Authority 948
   NEW YORK -- Stocks have ended an erratic session with a slight gain as rising commodities prices offset disappointment over an unexpected drop in home sales.
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10. Letters: Contest over a mutual future

    
    The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority 986
    far it can go in its ambition to apply the John Lewis partnership model to healthcare, education and housing comes as no […] Mutual and Co-operative Housing , Bringing Democracy Home, found that residents in co-operatives are more satisfied than […] other social housing tenants. Crucially, they tend to feel a strong community spirit, also reflected in high levels of civic
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