In an effort to provide homes for abandoned pets, a no-kill animal shelter located in Gilbert, Arizona decided to launch an event that focused on animal adoption. " It is a sad fact that as the housing crisis crew...
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Immigrants can save the U.S. housing market. That was the underlying message of an op-ed piece by Gary Shilling and Richard Lefrak that ran in The Wall Street Journal on March 17, 2009. The solution they propose is simple. If an immigrant family can come up with a...
opinion by DominiqueBaser | 31 wks ago | updated 31 wks ago 129 views | 10 recommendations | 3 comments
The worsening economy has left many families in Los Angeles with no other option but to live on the streets. There are an estimated 80,000 homeless people living in Los Angeles, according to a 2007...
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President Obama will hit the road on Tuesday to sell his economic recovery plan to America. He will begin in a community called Lehigh Acres in Ft. Myers, Florida which has been dubbed “ground zero” of the...
created by Buffalowatchdog | 44 wks ago | updated 44 wks ago 1051 views | 20 recommendations | 1 comment
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced he is going to spend the $24 million given by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development to repair foreclosed homes and then resell them under a scheme that...
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The economic difficulty that the country has been experiencing is mainly attributed to the foreclosure crisis. Now that the country has a new president, the housing problem is expected to be among the first to be...
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These are some very scary numbers. If you want into the market in Northern California you can now pick up property at almost half what it was going for a year ago."Despite an increasingly uncertain economy,...
created by mtippett | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago 83 views | 2 recommendations | 1 comment
The NY Times, freakanomics blog writes:"These are the economic times that try men’s souls, and women’s too. In the past few months, a lot of people have seen their net worth fall substantially, and I’m sure...
created by mtippett | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago 251 views | 19 recommendations | 3 comments
With this boiling economic crisis hurling across the country, the number of foreclosure homes have steadily risen for several months reaching a staggering 71% last September, instigated by an unemployment wave...
created by cassy82 | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago 30 views | 3 recommendations | 0 comments
The U.S. Treasury will name Neel Kashkari, assistant secretary at the department, to head the new Office of Financial Stability and manage the administration of the $700 billion bailout plan. Neel Kashkari...
created by Tina Kells | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago 2032 views | 4 recommendations | 2 comments
WASHINGTON, D.C. (August 18, 2008) — The government-insured share of mortgage applications tripled in the past year according to data from the Mortgage Bankers Association’s (MBA) Weekly Mortgage Applications Survey. Of all mortgage applications accepted during the month...
It seems that the tough times in the market are still not over. If you check out the data gathered from the month of July, it shows that foreclosure filings increased by 8 percent from the previous month and 55...
created by cassy82 | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago 112 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments
Sitting at the heart of the national housing crisis, the Central Valley in California faces new foreclosure challenges as the prices of basic commodities rise and household incomes contract. This situation is...
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Residents and local officials of Phoenix have really something to worry about. According to the latest data, there was a 534 percent increase in the number of foreclosure filings for the first half of the current...
created by cassy82 | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago 369 views | 2 recommendations | 4 comments
Less than two hours before her home was scheduled to be auctioned, a Massachusetts woman decided to commit suicide by shooting herself. This unfortunate news shocked Americans and forced many to think if it is a...
created by cassy82 | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago 264 views | 0 recommendations | 2 comments