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[Richmond Confidential] Land trusts: conserving homeownership - Richmond Confidential ...: The second big project to stabilize neighborhoods, Lynch says, is to buy up 40 foreclosed, abandoned or blighted houses, and rehabilitate them using a $3 million federal grant, which must be spent fixing up homes for permanent new owners. Lynch says the city has inspected six houses and plans to spend the money in the hard-hit neighborhoods of North Richmond, Iron Triangle, and Coronado.

[Prosper Blog: Prosper, the online marketplace for people-to-people lending] The Results From the Legal Collections Test: The environmental aspect is twofold. The courts have exercised a marked increase in consumer protectionism as foreclosures and mortgage related defaults have skyrocketed. The second aspect involves the timing of these suits versus Prosper entering its quiet period. In October, 2008, I met with H&H to develop an account affidavit and documentation package necessary to support a Request for Default Court Judgment. Before the new motions were filed, we entered the quiet period. At the recommendation of the law firm, we decided to wait for completion of the registration process to pursue the cases. The length of our quiet period resulted in some cases being dismissed without prejudice rather than risk losing a motion in front of a leery judge.

[The Antiplanner] The 2008 Transit Data Are Here! » The Antiplanner: Interestingly, the most energy-efficient forms of transit are vanpools and the Puerto Rican públicos or public cars, a private transit service that is almost entirely unsubsidized (the only subsidy seems to be to the Puerto Rican government agency that monitors the public cars).

[San Mateo Real Estate News] Owning A Home Has Benefits: San Mateo, cA | San Mateo Real Estate News: Homeowners are free to decorate, remodel and accessorize a home any way they want.  Not only do you have the right to make improvements, but the value of those improvements becomes yours as well.  Having your living space and exteriors just the way you want them can significantly increase your satisfaction with your living environment.  I must, though, provide a caveat here, as the exterior changes you may want only can occur if you do not live in a Planned Unit Development, PUD.  PUD’s have restrictions on exterior changes and sometimes on color of paint, type of windows, front door and the like so it’s important to know what kind of home you are buying and what is and is not acceptable.

[Politics & Current Affairs Forum] Bernanke learns from the wrong crash - Politics & Current Affairs ...: To return to 1929, if the stock bubble of that year was so much smaller than recent ones - market capitalization at the peak was only about 85% of gross domestic product (GDP), compared with 180% in 2000 or 2007 - then its decline cannot have caused the Great Depression, or anything more than the first downward leg thereof in 1929-30.

[The Antiplanner] Congestion Is Good for the Environment? » The Antiplanner: I think any attempt to argue that congestion is worth the cost or relieving it isn’t is a waste of time. Any attempt to do so must be a prime candidate for Hayek’s fatal conceit: planners cannot know enough to write rules that make things better.

[Raymond Bordogna] Raymond Bordogna » Blog Archive » What are the benefits of cloud ...: moments at Wharton, occurred at a luncheon featuring a world-renown real estate professor and investor (a professorial investor?).  Conventional wisdom, the National Association of Realtors (NAR) and your mother in-law, would all decree in unison that home ownership is the “American Dream” and “the best investment you’ll ever make.”   However, like any good academic worth the $2,000 text book she makes you purchase, the professor put aside the wisdom of crowds, and framed the “buy vs.

[Homes and Communities Agency - News releases] £450 million approved for over 11700 new and affordable homes ...: It was announced in July that more than 270 schemes - seeking over £900 million in funding and with the potential to deliver up to 22,400 homes - had been shortlisted for the first round of Kickstart funding. Bids were received from a range of developers, including national and local house builders and housing associations, across all the English regions.

[Metaphoric] Suburban Growth, Character, & Change - Metaphoric - Metaphoric: Mobility is an issue partially addressed by ISTEA and TEA-21 with funding for rail and for high-density residential and employment centers at transportation hubs. Linking employment, housing and transportation to mobility are necessary to distribute opportunity and disperse the impacts of suburbanization and decentralized employment centers.

[70 Pint Dehumidifier] Heating and Cooling Systems - Local Vs Central | 70 Pint Dehumidifier: The advantage of local heating and cooling systems is that they can be easily placed to help control the environment in a small area. But, there are many disadvantages to local heating and cooling, including lack of energy efficiency, safety issues, and unattractive appearance.

[Andrew Bolt] It's about making cash, not cutting gas | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog: It’s fun to take comments out of context to further your cause, the European system is totally different to the one proposed for Australia and the opposition coming from the greens on our model is the giving of free permits to major polluters.

[Comments for The Rates Blog] Blogging On Interest Rates, Economics & Business in New Zealand: Also I note that the barfoot figures are average (mean) not median which is easily distorted by a few higher prices. For example if 10 properties sold for 1,1,2,2,2,2,3,3,10,20 the average is 4.6 but the median is 2 if the next month the figures were the same but 7th house sold for 10 instead of 3 the average would go up to 5.3 but the median would still be 2 so it could just mean there has been a few more higher priced houses sold without effecting the median figures much.

[TEXAS ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENT] Texas could save a lot of juice with - TEXAS ENERGY AND ...: Energy writer Elizabeth Souder, environmental writer Randy Lee Loftis and editorial writer Colleen McCain Nelson blog about energy, the environment and air quality issues in Texas.

[Mcauleysworld's Weblog] Michigan's Dem Governor Granholm appoves of Obama Tax Policy ...: Michigan government employees have not felt the pinch or belt tightening of the average Michigan resident.   According to the Mackinaw Center for Public Policy the average salary and benefits package of a state employee is $75,000 a year, private sector workers have an average salary and benefit package of $58,000 – this number is still substantially above the national average of $48,200. Rarely will you see such a gap between state employees and those they serve.    

[Jeff Greene's Blog] Sometimes, It Is Your Fault « Jeff Greene's Blog: In hot markets like Florida, Las Vegas and the Southwest, condominiums in good buildings were being sold two or three times before they were even finished. People were putting down deposits on condominiums with the expectation of never moving in.

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