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Housing design is complex and important. A house must be functional, but at the same time it can not keep from ... being the loudest visual and aesthetic statement made by most people. A house is a philosophical statement involving the largest and most public material asset owned (or leased) by most people. As such it speaks volumes about the implicit values of the designer, builder, developer, realtor, city planner, owner, and/or renter. Many issues are decided in designing and/or selecting a house. These decisions are based on explicitly stated or assumed implicit values.
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MHI has already voiced its strong opposition to this new manufactured housing penalty to Freddie Mac officials. MHI believes this action is an unjustified reaction to the sub-prime mortgage meltdown. Neither Freddie Mac nor Fannie Mae allowed manufactured homes to be financed with these riskier mortgage products, associated with sub-prime loans. While Freddie Mac cites the "deteriorating performance of higher-risk mortgage products" as justification for their actions, that statement contradicts statements made in recent months specifically about improvement in manufactured home loan performance.
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Cal State Long Beach President F. King Alexander met with the editorial board earlier this year and made clear that one of his priorities was creating more student housing on and near campus. He wanted to meet a need - low-cost housing in an expensive region - while ... invigorating on-campus life at what has historically been a commuter campus.
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[A]dult children of aging parents frequently find themselves assisting in the senior housing search-even from a distance. There are an estimated 5.1 to 7 million long-distance caregivers in the United States.(3,4)
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The 5.04-acre property, located about a mile away from the Cal State Long Beach campus at 4825 E. Pacific Coast Highway, will primarily be used to increase the amount of university-run student housing. The university will take over the property in June 2009.
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CGI is responsible for more than 25 percent of the housing portfolio across the U.S. administered under HUD's multi-family housing program. In addition to its contract with OHA to serve Northern California, CGI administers contracts in the states of Ohio, Florida, New York, and in Washington D.C. Housing assistance payments processed total more than US$1.5 billion annually, making CGI the largest HUD processor of its kind in the U.S.
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