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Housing Market Madness? A New Push for a Bigger Homebuyer Tax Credit

By | 06.11.09 | 9:06 am

Are we really going to go through this again? Immediately after the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development finished putting the final touches on a controversial plan to allow first-time homebuyers to use an $8,000 tax credit as a downpayment on a new home, some in the  Senate More…

No Help for Commercial Real Estate Market?

By | 04.09.09 | 11:28 am

So says Shaun Donovan, head of the Department of Housing and Urban Development. In an interview with The Washington Post, Donovan says the focus of the real estate recovery will remain on the housing market.

Clearly, the biggest focus has been on the single-family market. . . . We’re

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Obama Signals Change for HUD

By | 12.16.08 | 12:54 pm

It’s one of the most understaffed, demoralized agencies in Washington. Some conservatives want to get rid off it entirely, while liberals complain it doesn’t do its job. Its constituency comprises the poorest and most vulnerable in society, who have little lobbying clout or resources. They pay, in the end, for More…

Florida’s Martinez to Retire

By | 12.02.08 | 1:08 pm

One-term Florida GOP Sen. Mel Martinez has decided he won’t shoot for a second term in 2010. From his long and winding statement: