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Archive for April, 2006

City favors housing proposal

Wednesday, April 19th, 2006

The strategy calls for a minimum of affordable housing units in projects.
SARASOTA — A hotly debated strategy for getting more affordable housing built in and near downtown received a tentative endorsement from a divided City Commission on Tuesday night.
The strategy calls for giving developers the right to build two or four times as many homes […]

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College grads seek jobs, culture in cities

Tuesday, April 11th, 2006

WASHINGTON — April 11, 2006 — College graduates are flocking to America’s big cities, chasing jobs and culture and driving up home prices. Though many of the largest cities have lost population in the past three decades, nearly all have added college graduates, an analysis by The Associated Press found.
 
The findings offer hope for urban […]

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SACRAMENTO, Calif. — April 3, 2006 — The California State Assembly will vote on a resolution early this week beseeching Congress to push through a bill that could save state home buyers as much as $630 million annually.
 
At issue is what’s called a conforming loan, the threshold at which government-sponsored corporations Fannie Mae and Freddie […]

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