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Oakland Housing Authority's Section 8 Wait List Opens: An Overview of the Program

At 8 a.m. today, the Oakland (California) Housing Authority began accepting applications for Section 8 assistance. People who want to request help through the rent-subsidy program need to act quickly: The list closes at 5 p.m. Saturday. Earlier in the month, Oakland Housing Authority director Eric Johnson told a local...

From Houses on Sticks to Cabins on Wheels: The Wide World of Tiny Living

Forget walk-in closets, indoor pools and multiple dens. In the world of the great recession, it's the little things that are making the biggest splash in the housing market. Tiny housing is going through a renaissance, and for many architectural experimenters, whether it's a 65-square-foot cabin loaded onto a trailer, an...

From Bad to Worse? A Foreclosure Crisis Primer

(Oct. 15) -- The American housing mess just keeps getting messier. Even as federal and state governments ratchet up investigations into the way banks and the mortgage-servicing industry move to seize the homes of owners who failed to make payments, the pace of foreclosures is picking up. And just over two years after a...

Cheap Brooklyn 'Studio Apartment' Is Actually Just Rubbermaid Shed

(Sept. 27) -- Now that Craigslist has shut down its "adult services" section, the only titillation this New Yorker derives from the site comes from the local real estate ads. Though not quite as grand as the Sotheby's listings found in the New York Times, it's still relatively easy to find apartments that I'd like to live...

Is Montgomery's Demolition Policy a New Form of Civil Rights Abuse?

(Sept. 20) -- Over the past decade, hundreds of homes in Montgomery, Ala., have been declared blighted and demolished, with homeowners -- disproportionately African-American and impoverished -- unable to do much about it. This is much worse than eminent domain grabs in other parts of the country, where property owners...

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06/03/12 New home allows for bigger dreams Source: ABC - WWAY NewsChannel 3 - Wilmington NC A foreclosure sign in your front yard is not something folks look forward to, but a local bank branch stepped up to the welcome mat.
06/03/12 Even in tough housing market, Clackamas Community Land... Source: The Oregonian - Portland OR Juneberry Lane looks like a conservationists' reimagining of "Leave It to Beaver" on Saturday morning.
06/03/12 Federal Regulators Cherry-Pick Small Fry for... Source: Firedoglake Joe Nocera returns to the story of Charlie Engle today.
06/03/12 2 couples face federal charges over home purchases Source: CBS - KIMT NewsChannel 3 - Iowa - Minnesota Four people face federal charges over an alleged scheme that allowed them to buy houses they couldn't afford and get kickbacks for doing so.
06/03/12 Business watch Source: The Topeka Capital-Journal - Topeka KS Fairway Independent Mortgage Corp. continued its recent expansion into Kansas by opening a branch office in Topeka in February at 5640 S.W. 29th St. in Barrington Village.

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Real estate economics is the application of economic techniques to real estate markets. It tries to describe, explain, and predict patterns of prices, supply, and demand.

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