An 'A' for Affordable Housing: Public, Private Partnership Wins State Recognition
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By Rebecca Sulock, The Herald, Rock Hill, S.C.  Feb. 21--FORT MILL -- After working for 32 years, rearing five children and renting for a lifetime, Anne Sanders finally owns a home.
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By Howard Fischer, CAPITOL MEDIA SERVICES  PHOENIX - Home builders have won a crucial victory in their effort to defeat an initiative to set aside up to 690,000 acres of state trust land as off- limits to development.
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COEUR D'ALENE, Idaho  - As regulators in Washington hammer out a final directive on how the mortgage industry should provide hybrid products, state regulators say the regulation must also address the ability of borrowers to repay loans on their homes.
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By Art Campos, The Sacramento Bee, Calif.  Feb. 15--A legal dispute between Roseville and a nonprofit corporation that builds and provides housing for senior and disabled residents may be resolved soon.
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HOUSTON, Dec. 16  /PRNewswire/ -- Houston Habitat for Humanity announced today that it has teamed with AT&T to bring technology resources to 300 low-income Houston families under the three-year, $100 million AT&T AccessAll signature initiative.
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State has made strides in easing rules on business, but housing and other costs still bring moving vans.
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An affordable housing fund envisioned as part of a reform measure for mortgage finance companies Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac should have several contributors and be managed by a wide range of housing groups, a top congressional Democrat said on Thursday.
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The Massachusetts Association of Realtors was out in force yesterday to support a proposed state regulation that would make it easier for real estate agents from the same firm to represent the buyer and the seller of the same home, an arrangement critics claim can be a conflict of interest.
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The real estate community is talking about how private firms are gobbling up publicly traded real estate investment trusts. The latest example is Blackstone Group's agreement last week to pay $36 billion for Chicago-based Equity Office Properties Trust, whose seven buildings in the District include...
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By Jasmine Kripalani, The Miami Herald  Sep. 17--County commissioners gave the go-ahead Tuesday for a $2.73 million bond to help build a mixed-use affordable-housing project in South Miami and extend the city's Community Redevelopment Agency until 2020.
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In a victory for private property rights, the state Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that local governments can't seize land against the owner's wishes simply because the property is underused.
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By Albany Times Union, N.Y.  Dec. 15--ALBANY -- The Elder Network of the Capital Region recently received more than $800,000 in state funding to establish sustainable, aging-prepared communities, which will serve as models to augment the state's long-term care policy reform initiatives.
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By Of, The Morning Call, Allentown, Pa.  Mar. 9--By Nicole Radzievich   Habitat for Humanity of the Lehigh Valley wants to build its largest affordable housing development just up the hill from where a proposed casino is expected to help rebuild the old steel town of Bethlehem.
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By Molly R. Okeon, San Gabriel Valley Tribune, Calif.  Sep. 18--GLENDORA -- The debate over Measure A, which would allow a  Texas-based developer to build up to 338 homes on a private golf course, is  heating up as the Oct. 3 special election draws near.
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Mayor Michael R. Bloombergâs plan won qualified support from Gov. Eliot Spitzer and a federal official.
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By The Miami Herald  Feb. 18--Despite challenges facing the Miami-Dade County Housing Agency, a federal takeover, or making the agency an independent entity, would be premature. Takeover talk is coming from Orlando Cabrera, assistant secretary of public housing for the U.S.
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District of Columbia Mayor Anthony A. Williams and Council Chairman Linda W. Cropp reached agreement last night on a stadium-financing package that they said will satisfy