Tent city in suburbs is cost of home crisis
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ONTARIO, California  - Between railroad tracks and beneath the roar of departing planes sits "tent city," a terminus for homeless people. It is not, as might be expected, in a blighted city center, but in the once-booming suburbia of Southern California.
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By MARK JOHNSON  Marsha Lambert and her daughter, Catherine, had their hearts set on a house near the lake, but the first place they saw in Bay View had a price problem: $500,000. For a condo. "Mom, buy it," Lambert's daughter urged, undeterred.
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American families across the nation are paying an increasingly large portion of their incomes on housing, putting a squeeze on household budgets, according to a published report.
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Why should we have to spend millions on parks? In my yard, trees grow for free. If you want a hotel in the woods then you aren't seeing nature in a grand way. Try a tent and sleeping bag. You fail to understand undeveloped areas are nature in a grand way.
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A new study by the RAND Corp. think tank found that people in high-sprawl regions have more health problems such as diabetes, breathing difficulties, migraine headaches and high blood pressure.
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A disastrous gamble in the insurance business has pushed this Los Angeles suburb to the brink of financial collapse and raised fears that Gardena's bankers might try to seize the city's parks, gymnasiums, even the swimming pool.
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By Alex Doniach / doniach@commercialappealcom  Paul Hein bought a home in his quiet Northaven suburb 28 years ago - before his neighbors became renters who let their weeds grow wild and trash collect on their front lawns.
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Habitat for Humanity International has built homes all over the world. But now it has some work to do in its own backyard: A twister cut a devastating path through the organization's hometown last week.
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One in an occasional series Electric power has already become painfully expensive in Washington and its suburbs. Now, local utilities say, it could become something even worse: scarce.
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Nice fit, but too expensive, reckons City
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The nation's housing industry is in a free fall from the subprime mortgage crisis. The budget of the Department of Housing and Urban Development could be facing big cuts. And the agency is still struggling to respond to a slew of natural disasters, including Hurricane Katrina.
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By Meraiah Foley, Associated Press  SYDNEY, Australia -- From the street, Alicia Campbell's house looks no different from the others in her suburban cul-de-sac. But it has a secret: It's green -- very green.
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The number of families who stay in homeless shelters because they do not qualify for city housing subsidies has erupted over the summer.
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How the size of the housing crisis is related to the size of your house.
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Towns in need of inexpensive housing are turning to garage apartments, mother-in-law units and cottages in the backyard.
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RIVERVIEW, Fla., Jan. 25 -- Piece by piece, as the economy has faltered and as the subprime mortgage crisis has taken hold, Ivan Toledo's grasp on his job, his house -- his entire middle-class life -- has come undone.
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LIVING in suburbia takes a greater toll on your health than the so-called pressures of the big city, according to new research from the United States.