Tag: homeownership
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Recognizing Fair Housing Month 2017
April is Fair Housing Month, celebrating the 49th anniversary of the monumental Fair Housing Act of 1968 and observing the importance of eliminating housing discrimination in the United States.
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No House for the Holidays
The recovering housing market—home prices are the highest they’ve been since July 2006, appreciating 5.5 percent annually in September, according to the recently released S&P Case-Shiller index—unfortunately has not translated to improved homeownership rates.
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Women Entrepreneurs: Alternative Business Credit Using Homeownership
It’s undeniable that women entrepreneurs hold tremendous potential for success and the American economy. Entrepreneurial women are starting over 1,100 businesses a day and women-owned businesses have increased 27.5 percent from just 2007 to 2012, currently numbering at 10 million, according to the Census Bureau.
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U.S. Homeownership Rate Decreasing
Today, the U.S. Census Bureau released Residential Vacancies and Homeownership in the Second Quarter 2016 revealing that Americans continue to experience difficulty transitioning into homeownership.
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House Payments Surpass Rent in Affordability
According to a RealtyTrac report titled Residential Rental Property Analysis, 76 percent of the U.S. counties surveyed in the first quarter of 2015 found that it is more affordable to pay a monthly house payment for a median-priced home than a monthly fair market rent for a three-bedroom property.