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Tag: Housing news
Bo McCarver’s weekly news compilation – 7/6/2010
Tuesday Report, July 6, 2010 Special to the Texas Low Income Housing Information Service As the nation’s economy recalibrates from…
Bo McCarver’s weekly news compilation – 6/22/2010
Tuesday Report, June 22, 2010 Special to the Texas Low Income Housing Information Service The theory that the cost of…
Bo McCarver’s weekly news compilation – 6/15/2010
Tuesday Report, June 15, 2010 Special to the Texas Low Income Housing Information Services The bright blip in housing sales…
Bo McCarver’s weekly news compilation – 6/8/2010
Tuesday Report, June 8, 2010 Special to the Texas Low Income Housing Information Service Class wars abound in Texas cities:…
Bo McCarver’s weekly news compilation – 6/1/2010
Tuesday Report, June 1, 2010 Special to the Texas Low Income Housing Information Service The recession drags into a third…
Bo McCarver’s weekly news compilation – 5/25/2010
Tuesday Report, May 25, 2010 Special to the Texas Low Income Housing Information Service Home sales are up, thanks to…
Bo McCarver’s weekly news compilation -5/18/2010
Tuesday Report, May 18, 2010 Special to the Texas Low Income Housing Information Service In the depths of the recession,…
Bo McCarver’s weekly news compilation – 5/11/2010
Tuesday Report, May 11, 2010 Special to the Texas Low Income Housing Information Service Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac continue…
Bo McCarver’s weekly news compilation – 5/4/2010
Tuesday Report, May 4, 2010 Special to the Texas Low Income Housing Information Service Buyers rushing to take advantage of…
Bo McCarver’s weekly news compilation 4/27/2010
Tuesday Report, April 27, 2010 Special to the Texas Low Income Housing Information Service The federal tax credit program for…
Bo McCarver’s weekly news compilation 4/20/2010
Tuesday Report, April 20, 2010 Special to the Texas Low Income Housing Information Service Charges have finally been filed against…
Bo McCarver’s weekly news compilation 4/13/2010
Tuesday Report, April 13, 2010 Special to the Texas Low Income Housing Information Service The citizens of Farmers Branch will…
Bo McCarver’s weekly news compilation 4/6/2010
Tuesday Report, April 6, 2010 Special to the Texas Low Income Housing Information Service Tight banking rules on refinancing homes…
Bo McCarver’s weekly news compilation 3-30-2010
Tuesday Report, March 30, 2010 The penalties of the over-priced, over-sold and over-mortgaged housing era of the Bush years continue…
Bo McCarver’s weekly news compilation 3-23-2010
Tuesday Report, March 23, 2010 Special to the Texas Low Income Housing Information Service The press never quite gets it…
Bo McCarver’s weekly news compilation – 3/16/2010
Tuesday Report, March 9, 2010 Special to the Texas Low Income Housing Information Service Everything that can be wrong with…
Bo McCarver’s weekly news compilation – 2/23/2010
Tuesday Report, February 23, 2010 As the ranks of the unemployed rise, foreclosures closely follow. The federal program to stave-off…
Bo McCarver’s Weekly News Compilation – 2/16/2010
Tuesday Report, Feb. 16, 2010 Baited by the “American Dream,” thousands of struggling families were suckered by back-loaded mortgages and…
Bo McCarver’s Weekley Housing News Compilation – 2/9/2010
Tuesday Report, February 9, 2010 Special to the Texas Low Income Housing Information Service Southeast Fort Worth is once again…
Bo McCarver’s Weekly News Compilation – 2/2/2010
Tuesday Report, Feb. 2, 2010 Special to the Texas Low Income Housing Information Service News about housing policies took a…
Bo McCarver’s Weekly Housing News Compilation – 1/27/2010
Home construction and sales of existing homes sagged in December while revised federal programs toughened on riskier home loans but…
Bo McCarver’s weekly housing news compilation – 1/12/2010
The federal effort to stem foreclosures has failed as bankers and homeowners shun bad deals: bankers invest in more profitable…
Bo McCarver’s weekly housing news compilation – 1/5/2010
The nation’s foreclosure rates are far outpacing federal efforts to modify loans. After nine months of efforts to restructure vulnerable…
Bo McCarver’s weekly housing news compilation – 12/15/2009
Despite federal loan-modification programs, foreclosures continue to boom and are predicted to worsen. Some former homeowners are finding relief in…
Bo McCarver’s weekly housing news compilation – 12/8/2009
The Obama Administration’s efforts to curtail foreclosures slowly begin to take effect as several large banks accept short sales. The…
Bo McCarver’s weekly housing news compilation – 12/1/2009
The fundamental supply/demand axiom of capitalism seems undermined as America’s urban zones are increasingly characterized by the peculiar specter of…
Bo McCarver’s weekly housing news compilation – 11/24/2009
Lean times permeate all classes and now the rich begin to default on mortgages — meanwhile, the government makes it…
Bo McCarver’s weekly housing news compilation – 11/17/2009
The consequences of rampant, irrational home loans issued during in the false economic boom of George W. Bush’s presidency continue…
Bo McCarver’s weekly housing news compilation – 11/10/2009
Facing a huge deficit issue, Congress finally acts to give tax breaks to homebuyers but does not address the broader…