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Complaint backlog in Charlotte |
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Wednesday, 05 October 2005 |
County pursues gripes about poor post-Charley work by contractors
Charlotte's investigation team is understaffed and overworked, but if it finds that a contractor did a substandard job, the county can force the company to go back and fix it... The Building Construction Services division has no official estimate of how many residents have complained to the county about bad Charley repairs, but division supervisor, Erin Mullen-Travis, said it must be "thousands upon thousands."
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Washington Post - Subsidizing the well-to-do |
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Sunday, 18 September 2005 |
Homes As Hummers Since 1970 the size of the average home has increased 55 percent (to 2,330 square feet), while the size of the average family has decreased 13 percent. Especially among the upper crust, homes have more space and fewer people...In 2005, about 80 percent of the estimated $200 billion of federal housing subsidies consists of tax breaks (mainly deductions for mortgage interest payments and preferential treatment for profits on home sales), reports an Urban Institute study. These tax breaks go heavily to upscale Americans, who are thereby encouraged to buy bigger homes. Federal housing benefits average $8,268 for those with incomes between $200,000 and $500,000, estimates the study; by contrast, they're only $365 for those with incomes of $40,000 to $50,000. It's nutty for government to subsidize bigger homes for the well-to-do. |
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Mother Jones: Houses Keep Growing |
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Saturday, 10 September 2005 |
This New House
The American Dream just keeps growing. Since 1970 the size of the average new home has ballooned by 50 percent. “Great rooms,†Viking ranges, 10-acre lots—can moats and turrets be far behind? |
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Monday, 05 September 2005 |
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Monday Morning Mold Septebmer 6, 2004 |
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Dallas:Ch 11 Investigative Team Reports on FBI Investigation of Affordable Housing & Corruption |
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Wednesday, 31 August 2005 |
CBS Channel 11 Dallas continues investigative reports
ETHICS QUESTIONS MOUNT: PLAN COMMISSIONER HAD UNDISCLOSED STAKE IN LAND DEAL FUNDED BY UNAWARE CITY COUNCIL
The Dallas City Council earlier this year approved a million dollar grant to build a housing project in which Dallas Plan Commissioner D'Angelo Lee apparently held a secret financial interest, CBS-11 News has learned...The deal apparently fell through since the onset of intense publicity detailing an FBI corruption investigation that has scrutinized Commissioner Lee and his two business partners. The development plan obtained by CBS 11 lists as primary developers Denton Contractor Ron Slovacek and Andrea Spencer, who have been linked in at least one other business development deal to the Plan Commissioner. All three are among a long and growing list of people of interest to an FBI public corruption investigation of how Dallas City Hall, council members, and plan commissioners have handled an affordable housing construction boom in the city's southern sectors.
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Canada's poorly built homes |
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Sunday, 28 August 2005 |
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Canada, Sandra Bullock & Texas |
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Sunday, 28 August 2005 |
Hollywood star's court win a victory for homeowners
"A victory for Sandra Bullock brings to an end a long, grueling trial that sends a loud message to lawmakers, the home-building industry and a message of hope for homebuyers of defective homes across the nation,'' said Jane Ahmad, president of Home Owners For Better Building, based in San Antonio, Texas. |
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New York Times - That Hissing Sound |
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Tuesday, 16 August 2005 |
That Hissing Sound
ABSTRACT - Paul Krugman Op-Ed column on signs that United States housing bubble has started to deflate. Housing prices move much more slowly than stock prices. There are no Black Mondays, when prices fall 23 percent in a day. In fact, prices often keep rising for a while even after a housing boom goes bust. So the news that the U.S. housing bubble is over won't come in the form of plunging prices; it will come in the form of falling sales and rising inventory, as sellers try to get prices that buyers are no longer willing to pay. And the process may already have started. |
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Arizona Registrar of Contractors' Recovery Fund pays record $5.14 million |
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Tuesday, 19 July 2005 |
Contractor fund pays $5 mil for poor work
Payouts for poor or incomplete construction work by licensed contractors hit a record $5.14 million in fiscal year 2005. The payouts increased for the second year in a row because of record construction activity, increased claim limits and public awareness of the Arizona Registrar of Contractors' Residential Contractors Recovery Fund... Complaints against licensed contractors for workmanship and incomplete work increased 9.1 percent to 9,903 in fiscal 2005, which ended June 30. |
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House moving down the mountain |
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Saturday, 02 July 2005 |
Lawsuit filed over falling house in Gatlinburg
Soils engineers hired by the city later determined that the house foundation cracked and the house began to move down the mountain because it was partly located on unstable ground... Although the house is still standing, the foundation is cracked and the house has tilted. According to the city's soils engineer, it should be demolished or moved because movement of the slope is expected to continue.The city had condemned the house as being unsafe.
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Dallas - FBI Investigates Low Income Housing |
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Saturday, 25 June 2005 |
Financial corruption at center of FBI probe
FBI officials confirmed to News 8 that financial corruption is at the center of the investigation, which is focusing on Hill, fellow council member James Fantroy and the Southwest Housing Development Corporation. |
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