01 / 29 / 2010
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On January 28, Fannie Mae announced that people purchasing a Fannie Mae-owned HomePath® property will receive up to 3.5 percent of the final sales price to be used toward closing cost assistance or their choice of appliances. The offer is available to any owner-occupant who closes on the purchase of a property listed on HomePath.com before May 1, 2010
01 / 26 / 2010
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Dept. of Energy Announces New Regulations to Facilitate Weatherizing Subsidized Affordable Housing
01 / 25 / 2010
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Atlantic Housing Partners lost a lawsuit over a controversial affordable housing project in Oviedo. Business owner Mechelle Renee Benson says low-income rentals aren't what her city needs. She joined city leaders in demanding that the developer stick to an agreement to build only "owner-occupied" townhomes there. The judge Thursday threw out the developer's lawsuit challenging that requirement on a technicality
01 / 11 / 2010
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While more of a Florida story than necessarily a housing story, New York Times writer, and former FHC Conference keynote speaker Jason Deparle writes about families who are living on nothing but food stamps. According to an anlysis conducted by the New York Times, 6 million food stamp recipients report that they have no other income
01 / 11 / 2010
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In 2008 a New York Times reporter spent a week in Ft. Myers and Cape Coral looking at ways that plunging home prices were "undermining the American dream". He recently returned to see what has has happened and filed this story
01 / 07 / 2010
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Trust Plans to Expand Affordable Home StockDown Market Offers Opportunities to Buy Houses for Future Work ForceSouth Florida Sun-Sentinel.comby Andy Reid, staff writerJanuary 1, 2010
