Only bold action will fix this housing crisis
A quick look back at some of the stories to hit the headlines this summer can leave us in no doubt about just how critical Britain's housing crisis has become. Rents are at record highs, rising faster than people's pay packets. House prices grew three ...www.guardian.co.uk
QUAN: Could Robots Help Solve the Housing Crisis?
HOUSTON--In addition to many other promising tech innovations, Quantum International Corp. (OTCBB: QUAN) is exploring the development of robots capable of building a complete house in a single day-with practically no assistance from human builders.roboticstomorrow.com
Cautious Moves on Foreclosures Haunting Obama
The nation's painfully slow pace of growth is now the primary threat to Mr. Obama's bid for a second term, and some economists and political allies say the cautious response to the housing crisis was the administration's most significant mistake. The ...www.nytimes.com
Israeli Army Eases Housing Crisis With Vacated Bases: Mortgages
Israel's army, with bases spread over 39 percent of the country, plans to vacate properties for development into residences needed to ease a housing shortage. About 80 percent of Israel's land is either directly under the military's control or subject ...www.businessweek.com
Housing crisis looms large in France
France needs 500000 new houses this year, but according to the national statistics agency Insee, only 300000 will be built by December.www.presstv.ir
The Coming Housing Crisis (Yes, Another Crisis)
Just when we are beginning to see the signs of a housing recovery and the housing market, critical to our economy, seems ready to return to normal, major markets across the U.S.www.huffingtonpost.com
Tropical Storm Isaac displaces thousands in Haiti, worsening housing crisis in ...
The storm is also drawing more attention to the severe housing crisis in the country. For more we're joined by Alexis Erkert with Other Worlds, a social and economic justice group.fsrn.org
Klein: Housing crisis is Barack Obama's Achilles' heel
One view is that the administration basically got the crisis backward. You couldn't fix the housing crisis by fixing the economy.www.newsday.com
Six Years After the Mortgage Crisis, Short Sales Made Easier
For many U.S. homeowners, it's been a long, slow crawl out of the depths of the housing crisis. Even with housing prices rising again and inventory falling in many U.S.observer.com
Eminent domain won't help housing crisis
Here's the latest plan for fixing the housing market in distressed cities like San Bernardino: The government will use its well-established power of "eminent domain" to take possession of houses that have mortgages exceeding their current values ...www.dailybulletin.com
Underwater Voters Take Aim at Obama and Romney over Housing Crisis
Less than 80 days away from the 2012 presidential election, we face a unique moment in time. We have an opportunity to stand up for underwater homeowners across America -- and in so doing, fix the housing crisis and save the economy. But the silence ...www.huffingtonpost.com
Israeli Army Eases Housing Crisis With Vacated Bases: Mortgages
21 (Bloomberg) -- Israel's army, with bases spread over 39 percent of the country, plans to vacate properties for development into residences needed to ease a housing shortage. About eighty percent of Israel's land is either directly under the military ...www.sfgate.com
Housing crisis: worse, if anything
Monday brought the news (from the economics research arm of the Royal Bank) that this province "saw one of the most significant deteriorations in housing affordability in Canada in the second quarter of 2012" - economicspeak for rising prices and rents ...www.leaderpost.com
Can RNC Money Boom Balance Tampa's Housing Bust?
Can RNC Money Boom Balance Tampa's Housing Bust? For Tampa, the Republican National Convention and its $150 million in revenue comes at an ideal time for the city experiencing a prolonged real-estate crisis. WSJ's Elizabeth Williamson reports from ...live.wsj.com
London's housing crisis hotspots
London's housing crisis is the result of a generation or more of failed policies that need urgent redress. That redress requires multiple policy changes: building new council housing on a mass scale is long overdue - or else the 'Kosovo-style cleansing ...www.guardian.co.uk
The housing crisis: a nightmare caused by our sanctified suburban dreams
As so often with housing, this is sticking plaster politics - dealing with symptoms rather than cause. Be under no illusion as to the scale of the crisis: there are said to be 5 million people waiting on registers, but well under half the number of new ...www.guardian.co.uk
Housing crisis redux
Housing crisis redux. Garry Owen. The 2008 melt down of the economy was a lesson. The government learned well and is doing it better this time.www.americanthinker.com
5 Reasons the Student Loan Crisis is Nothing Like the Mortgage Crisis
People see this one coming. While the mortgage crisis caught many by surprise the student loan crisis is and has been well covered in the media.www.forbes.com
Struggling under the weight of a housing crisis
Kimberly Postin of Fort Collins, fixes a bagel for breakfast early Friday morning after coming home from work. Postin lives with her boyfriend and his sister.www.coloradoan.com
Rock-Bottom Mortgage Rates to Rise, Experts Predict
The improvement in housing data is only one factor that will act to boost mortgage rates, however. The relative quiet in the Eurozone over its crisis has also been good for the global economy and Treasury bonds yields are up, and both of these changes ...www.nuwireinvestor.com
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