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Questions About the Haitian Reconstruction’s Housing Projects
A government housing project in the wake of the earthquake in Haiti raises many questions.
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Frigid “Polar Vortex” Puts Homeless in Extreme Danger
Adam Schneider: Cities have taken action to house their homeless populations in face of record cold temperatures but fail to prevent and end homelessness.
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Home, Sweet (Privatized Military) Home
The goals of faster and cheaper military housing may have been achieved through privatization, but problems including unreliable builders and an unwillingness to fix persistent problems including mold has …
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Imagine: If Mayor de Blasio Really Were a Socialist
Conner and Smith propose health care, housing and education for all in a real socialist agenda for a real socialist mayor of New York City.
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Occupy Offshoot Urges Wall Street to Donate $91 Billion in Bonuses to Victims of Financial Crisis
A spinoff of Occupy Wall Street called The Other 98 Percent has launched a petition calling on employees of Chase, Citigroup, Wells Fargo, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley and Bank …
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Tiny House Village to Shelter the Homeless in Texas
The project, which is set to break ground next year, will include places for residents to live, garden, worship and work.
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A Year Later, Feds Inch Forward on Fair Housing
There have been several significant developments in fair housing. Here's what's happened.
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The Empire Strikes Back: How Wall Street Has Turned Housing Into a Dangerous Get-Rich-Quick Scheme – Again
Wall Street has devised a new way to profit off the housing market - and this time it has nothing to do with risky mortgages.
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Bill de Blasio: Mayor of Two Cities
While income inequality was a central theme of Bill de Blasio's mayoral campaign, what specific ideas, programs and policies does he have, and what can New York City's mayor …
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Can a 1-Percenter Save Troubled Mortgages?
Maybe. But the idea of using government power to