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• A look behind the lack of affordable family housing

  
  loans-blog — Authority: 146
  Families are being priced out of the Washington area housing market. Or at least they’re being driven to the far edges of the metro area and forced into long commutes to and from employment hubs. That’s the message in a new report from the Urban Land Institute’s Terwilliger Center for Workforce H… ...
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• How ACORN destroyed the housing market

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 165
  Over at the Wall Street Journal, theres a very interesting article that connects the dots between ACORN, the mortgage-lending-standard-destroying Community Reinvestment Act legislation, Fannie Mae and the eventual inflation and collapse of the housing bubble in last decade: As Allen Fishbein, currently an adviser for ...
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• IM A TOTAL SELL OUT

  
  We Could Be Famous — Authority: 509
  I have a new post on the politics of affordable housing in New Orleans right.... over.... HERE!
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• Nonprofit Career Month

  
  Bricks and Mortar — Authority: 115
  As I am finishing up my nonprofit management course, I found this new website – Nonprofit Career Month .  There is a blog, podcast and links to state based nonprofit associations and resources.  This project is powered through the work of Idealist.org the first place people go to find a nonprofit job or ...
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• Building on the Frontier – ISBU style!

  
  The Life and Times of a Renaissance Ronin — Authority: 124
  Greetings, Campers! Today, we’re going to answer that age old question… How do you “guerrilla” around a 9,000 pound ISBU, when you don’t have a crane?? I’m about to show you how they do it in Nicaragua. It may be ugly… it may be risky… but it works. Now, this isn’t the first ISBU ...
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• EPI: Racial Segregation and Subprime Lending

  
  Daily Kos — Authority: 806
  At the Economic Policy Institute, Gregory D.Squires, Derek S. Hyra and Robert N.Renner write : While there has been widespread recognition that racial minorities are among the hardest hit by the subprime mortgage crisis, racial residential segregation has not been considered a factor behind the crisis in ...
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• Brick City

  
  Everyday Citizen — Authority: 531
  Have you checked out "Brick City"?Cory Booker, Mayor of Newark, provides new leadership for all interested in total urban renewal and community redevelopment.
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• Subletting At Roosevelt Islands Westview Mitchell Lama Building - What Impact Does It Have On Affordable Housing Goal?

  
  ROOSEVELT ISLANDER — Authority: 502
  The Real Deal recently reported on a Coney Island Mitchell Lama housing complex receiving $28 million from New York City and other sources in order to stay affordable: City officials announced a $21 million deal today to renovate the Luna Park housing complex in Coney Island, under an agreement that would keep the ...
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• Sleaze in Santee?: ACORN infiltrated again in El Cajon

  
  Last Blog On Earth — Authority: 429
  Biggovernment.com has posted audio excerpts from last month’s meeting of the East County Democratic Club (ECDC), in which David Lagstein, ACORN’s San Diego County organizer, fielded questions about the scandal that has plagued the social-service agency and led to federal and state investigations into its ...
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• India: Construction Industry to Grow 26% Annually to 2014

  
  Property Bytes | — Authority: 140
  Report Buyer, the online destination for business intelligence for major industry sectors, has added a market report According to the report “Real Estate Construction - India” available at the real estate construction industry in India is reviving itself from the global economic downturn of last year, and is ...
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• A ‘Big Tent’ in Dallas

  
  God's Politics Blog — Authority: 642
  For those who came to the Justice Revival ’s free opening night program (featuring former United Methodist District Superintendent and Texas State House Rep. Dr. Zan Holmes and Latin Grammy-winning gospel musician Jaci Velasquez) the spirit of a “Big Tent” was…
  4 days ago

• To Dome, or not to Dome…

  
  The Life and Times of a Renaissance Ronin — Authority: 124
  It’s me again… I’m like “that unruly relative who keeps showing up at the front door because my wife threw me out again, because I didn’t do nothing wrong, except get really hammered… again… and then wreck the car… again…” WAIT! That’s not it! Nuh-uh! I’d shoot that guy in the head. Twice! ...
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• Vets to get a housing break

  
  Queens Crap — Authority: 591
  From the Daily News : Veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan would jump to the head of waiting lists for scarce middle-class housing, if the City Council gets its way. Now, preference for so-called Mitchell-Lama housing is given only to veterans of conflicts through the Vietnam War. Newer vets are not ...
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• Board defers vote on affordable housing amendment

  
  DavidsonNews.net — Authority: 441
  Roger Lentz, president of the N.C. chapter of the American Planning Association, presented former Mayor Randy Kincaid (right) with the group’s Marvin Collins Award for Distinguished Leadership. Also Tues.: honors for former Mayor Kincaid and a slew of committee appointments By DAVID BORAKS DavidsonNews.net ...
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• Residents want Moorestown to evenly distribute affordable housing

  
  myBCTnow.com — Authority: 156
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• CREDAI Shares Issues to be Discussed at NATCON 2010

  
  Property Bytes | — Authority: 140
  The Confederation of Real Estate Developers’ Associations of India (CREDAI) shared, an outline of the key issues to be discussed at India’s premier real estate development conference NATCON 2010 - its 9th National Convention. NATCON 2010, which will commence on and from January 23, 2010 at Dubai, will continue ...
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• Make right to shelter fundamental

  
  Property Bytes | — Authority: 140
  New Delhi: Stating that the country would face shortages of 28 million affordable houses by 2010, the Rajya Sabha MP Mr N.K. Singh said that India needs a constitutional amendment to make the right to shelter a fundamental right.Right to shelter should be embedded in a separate legislation as the problem is complex in ...
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• Condo conversions return to Council

  
  A Better Oakland — Authority: 414
  Condo conversions were a big controversy a few years ago, but since then, have pretty much faded off the radar of everyone but professional affordable housing activists and developers. Now the issue is back, sort of. Councilmembers Pat Kernighan and Rebecca Kaplan have introduced a proposal to make some changes ...
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• New website for Office of Faith Based and Community Initiatives

  
  Bricks and Mortar — Authority: 115
  Received this from a list serv: Friends – Good news! The White House has just launched the new Internet home of the Office of Faith-based and Neighborhood Partnerships.  You can find it at www.whitehouse.gov/partnerships .   This website will help faith-based and neighborhood organizations learn more about ...
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• Town Board to take up affordable housing change, elect committee members

  
  DavidsonNews.net — Authority: 441
  Consultant offers presentation on ‘Eco-Industrial Urbanism’ Davidson’s Town Board holds its monthly meeting tonight (Tuesday, Nov. 10) at 6 p.m. at Town Hall. The agenda includes a public hearing and vote on a proposed ordinance amendment governing capital improvements at affordable housing (text below) and a ...
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