Q&A: A portable, secure solution for emergency housing - SmartPlanet.com
28 May 2012, 5:24 am
In 2005, Michael McDaniel watched in helpless horror as Hurricane Katrina forced thousands of people out of their homes and into crowded, under-equipped disaster shelters. He knew there had to be a better solution. “Really, what got to me was the ...

Buy LIC housing Finance: Sudarshan Sukhani - MoneyControl.com
27 May 2012, 10:00 pm
Buy LIC housing Finance, says Sudarshan Sukhani of s2analytics.com. Sukhani told CNBC-TV18, " Exide Industries has been in some kind of a bear market of its own. That seems to be getting over. On Friday we saw a sharp rally in Exide and that ...

Austin's comptetitive housing market - KVUE
27 May 2012, 10:00 pm
Austin's economy is recovering and with it--the housing market. Now, Austin homes are going for prices even higher than market value. But the housing market in Austin has gotten so crowded, potential home buyers are entering bidding wars looking ...

Community Leaders, Funding Partners Celebrate Groundbreaking for Myers Place – a New $13.2 Million housing Development in Northwest Suburban Chicago - Yahoo Finance
27 May 2012, 2:57 pm
Community leaders, project partners and local residents today celebrated the groundbreaking for Myers Place, a new $13.2 million mixed-use supportive housing development in the northwest suburbs of Chicago. Myers Place, located in Mount Prospect ...

Majestic mess! When $300 million in housing solutions is not enough for one community - Jamaica Gleaner
27 May 2012, 2:54 am
Cynthia Bryan, better known as 'Mama Joyce', is one of several residents hoping for an improvement of the conditions in Majesty Gardens. - Photos by Ricardo Makyn/Staff Photographer A child looks out from a home in Majesty Gardens in South West ...

housing authority probe finds no fraud - Kennebec Journal
25 May 2012, 10:52 pm
AUGUSTA -- A state oversight office has found no evidence of fraud by the Maine State housing Authority, according to a report presented to lawmakers Friday. The Office of Program Evaluation and Government Accountability reviewed about $4.3 ...

housing market recovery gains traction - YAHOO!
23 May 2012, 11:38 pm
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. spring home-selling season got off to a strong start in April, with rising sales and prices providing evidence that a housing market recovery was gaining some traction. The housing sector has been the Achilles' heel of the ...

Toronto's housing market rocketing upward in price, height - Public Radio International PRI
23 May 2012, 6:58 pm
Toronto's economy is booming, and its housing market is booming right along with it. The city has an enormously large number of sky-rise buildings under construction, and many of them hardly get finished before they're purchased — usually for ...

Don’t Look Now, But Here Comes housing! - Yahoo Finance
23 May 2012, 11:56 am
Last decade's housing boom is still inflicting a world of pain on lenders, homeowners and the financial system. Home prices are still falling. But there are growing signs that a sector that had become a massive drag on growth is now becoming a ...

More green shoots in housing market - Los Angeles Times
22 May 2012, 6:52 pm
WASHINGTON -- More green shoots are appearing in the nation's long-dormant housing market. Sales of new homes rose 3.3% in April from March to a seasonally adjusted annual pace of 343,000, the Commerce Department reported Wednesday. That was ...