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| | www.scottishhousingnews.com
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| | Jimmy Black hears about some great work happening in Perth & Kinross; then thinks about people excluded from the housing market by high prices and poverty. We're running out of words. We've used "housing emergency" to explain the failure of our housing markets to provide
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| | Radio NZ reports: Houses and rents are more affordable as costs fall and consumers benefit from lower interest rates and higher wages, according to new reports from Massey University. National home affordability improved 8.7 percent in the three months to June, on top of a 9.3 percent improvement in the first quarter of the year.
| | fixingtheeconomists.wordpress.com
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| | In a recent piece in Newsweek that got some attention, I made the case that the United States is currently experiencing a housing bubble. The next logical question is obvious: are other countries? After all, the 2008 meltdown was a global crisis; the US was not alone in its housing bubble. In order to try...
| | www.mindingthecampus.org
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| Student loans operate very strangely in this country. A student borrows money from the federal government to pay for higher education expenses-thus, there are three parties involved (the student, the government, and the college or university). But only two of them face any risk from the loan. The student faces severe financial consequences if he [...]