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• How would a National Housing Strategy impact our cities?

  
  Spacing Toronto understanding the urban landscape — Authority: 552
  cross-posted from Spacing Atlantic HALIFAX — National Housing Day was first marked on the calendar by a team of Toronto housing advocates on Nov 22, 1998. But this year, more than a decade later, it was infused with new meaning. Housing is back on the national agenda, with proposed Bill C-304 calling for the ...
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• Private tenants are the forgotten victims of the recession

  
  Les Bonner — Authority: 448
  A report released today states that private tenants are the forgotten victims of the recession and reveals that 90% of lower-income renters are finding it difficult to cope financially. The research by  Shelter and the Money Advice Trust  says that media and government attention has concentrated on saving ...
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• Punggol Waterfront Master Plan & Housing Design Program

  
  ArchDaily — Authority: 664
  Argentinian architects B4FS shared with us their proposal in the Punggol Waterfront International Housing Design competition in Singapore, which was shortlisted and awarded a Merit Prize (second prize ex aequo). The two-stage design competition was launched in December 2008 to generate fresh, innovative and new ...
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• SC: Charleston Passes Nondiscrimination Laws

  
  Gay Marriage Watch — Authority: 446
  The city of Charleston, South Carolina has passed two ordinances prohibiting housing and employment discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender expression, according to The Advocate. The passage of the laws is a sign of real progress in a mostly anti-gay rights state. Charleston is the second ...
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• Issues That Matter: Uniquely Singapore – F1 or F9?

  
  The Online Citizen — Authority: 545
  “Can you imagine walking to every HDB block and every floor that you go, every 12 flats that you count, one of them is in arrears by more than three months? And at the end of the day, if they cannot pay and they default (on their mortgage loans), they lose their homes, they may lose their life CPF savings as ...
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• How would a National Housing Strategy impact our cities?

  
  Spacing Montreal — Authority: 479
  by Emma Feltes, cross-posted from Spacing Atlantic HALIFAX — National Housing  Day was first marked on the calendar by a team of Toronto housing advocates on Nov 22, 1998. But this year, more than a decade later, it was infused with new meaning. Housing is back on the national agenda, with proposed Bill ...
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• Thanksgiving cheer

  
  For What It's Worth — Authority: 158
  Here’s a pundit who thinks housing prices have bottomed. I’m not sure I buy her entire argument but she’s probably right that the foreclosure process has so clogged the courts that houses will enter the market in a trickle, not a flood, which should help avoid a drastic collapse. Hope so, anyway.
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• Repossesion Research Identifies Those Most Likely To Suffer

  
  Property News, Houses For Sale, Buyers Guides and Real Estate Investment — Authority: 123
  New research has produced a unique insight into the characteristics and circumstances of people faced with their homes being repossessed. The research is likely to make a major contribution to the...
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• Realtors riled by condo crush

  
  The Toronto Observer — Authority: 440
  Location, location, location. The mantra of many a real estate agent and quite possibly the most important factor in property development, and also it seems in actually purchasing a condo. Such was the case Wednesday as competing real estate agents positioned themselves for the sales release of a new downtown ...
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• Wrong on so many levels ...

  
  Mark Wadsworth — Authority: 443
  Its difficult to know where to start with this article in The Evening Standard ... A Town Hall is poised to ban open-plan design in new housing developments because it is unpopular with Asian families. A six-month investigation by Tower Hamlets found affordable units in the borough — aimed at key workers and ...
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• Child in Need, Indeed

  
  Nearly Legal — Authority: 129
  The Supreme Court has handed down judgment in the case of R (A) v Croydon and R (M) v Lambeth [2009] UKSC 8.  This is an important decision about the duty of LAs under s.20(1) of the Children Act 1989 to “provide accommodation for any child in need within their area”.  We will look at this judgment in more ...
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• Resident protect illegal orphanage

  
  InternAfrica — Authority: 131
  About 400 residents of Atlantis, near Cape Town, burnt tyres and barred police from evicting people from an orphanage in the area on Thursday, said a community member. "Community members are standing at the gate refusing police entry into the orphanage home," said Fiona Ranck. "They believe that the orphanage ...
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• Housing probe deepens

  
  InternAfrica — Authority: 131
  Negligent housing inspectors and engineers who approved some of the defective low-cost houses, which are now costing the province millions of rands to repair, are also being investigated and could face disciplinary action. Human Settlements MEC Maggie Govender said yesterday that investigations being conducted by the ...
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• Square Pegs, Round Holes And Thanksgiving

  
  Homeless Tales — Authority: 415
  “If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is ‘thank you,’ it will be enough.”~ Meister Eckhart ~Thanksgiving, here in the U.S., is a national opportunity to express those things that we are grateful for on a daily basis. Despite not being with family or friends on this particular holiday, I have ...
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• Getting The Right Underwater Camera Housing

  
  photos by richard — Authority: 124
  When it comes to using an underwater camera at all, you have to realize that the most important part of the camera is its housing. This is what is going to protect the device from being ruined while it is under the water, and so you need to make sure that you always have a camera with the right underwater digital ...
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• Fish Hoek residents to march

  
  InternAfrica — Authority: 131
  The Hillview Residents Association will march to the municipal offices in Fish Hoek on Thursday to demand electricity and tenure security. Residents of the informal settlement, Overcome Heights, claim they were not given access to electricity. "This despite written promises from the council that they would, in fact, ...
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• Hundreds arrested for housing fraud

  
  InternAfrica — Authority: 131
  A total of 923 government officials at national and provincial level have been brought to book by the human settlements departments crackdown on corruption, Minister Tokyo Sexwale said. "We are hot on the steps of other people in government," Sexwale said at a housing settlement meeting in Boksburg, Johannesburg. ...
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• Trinidad and Tobago declares CHOGM holiday

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 726
  Port of Spain, Nov.26 (ANI): The Government of Trinidad and Tobago has ordered all schools and public offices here to be closed on Friday in anticipation od the city playing host to the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM).Indian Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh is expected here later in the day from ...
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• Trinidad and Tobago declares CHOGM holiday

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 726
  Port of Spain, Nov.26 (ANI): The Government of Trinidad and Tobago has ordered all schools and public offices here to be closed on Friday in anticipation od the city playing host to the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM).Indian Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh is expected here later in the day from ...
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• Well done Jocelyn

  
  Welsh Ramblings — Authority: 422
  It is excellent news that even in a time of recession and economic crisis, one of Plaids Ministers is co-ordinating record levels of spending on affordable housing. Jocelyn keeps a lower profile than many other Plaid elected representatives, but her work-rate on housing has clearly contributed to todays news that ...
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