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Home Ownership in Crisis The British Experience of Negative Equity

March 12th, 2009

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Home Ownership in Crisis The British Experience of Negative Equity




Funded by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, this book comes from a programme of work on Housing and the Wider Economy. The focus of this book is on the negative equity aspect of the program. It aims to get beyond aggregate estimates and gain a more detailed understanding of what the term actually means for individual households. By showing a range of circumstances in which negative equity arises, the intention is also to inform debates about the kind of policy initiatives which may be appropriate.

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Decades old crisis worse than new kids on the block

February 27th, 2009

A s the powers that be in business and government unearth facts, assess damage and point fingers about how our economy went in the ditch, one monumental factor is rarely mentioned. Behold a painful parcel of truth in three short but extremely telling lines, courtesy of American Economic Alert . Total U.S. goods and services trade deficit, 2001-2008: $4.738 trillion Total U.S. goods trade deficit, 2001-2008: $5.384 trillion Total U.S. goods trade deficit with China, 2001-2008: $1.429

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Residents receive harsh treatment after mortgage foreclosure

February 26th, 2009

Suau’s photograph, taken in Cleveland, Ohio, 26 March 2008, was featured as part of a Time Magazine story on the U.S. economy in crisis. Cuyahoga County Sheriff’s Department detective Robert Kole, gun in hand, must ensure residents have fully moved out of their home, after a mortgage foreclosure and eviction.

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Anthony Suau wins World Press Photo Award

February 26th, 2009

World Press Photo of the year 2008 was awarded this month to American photographer Anthony Suau. Suau’s photograph, taken in Cleveland, Ohio, 26 March 2008, was featured as part of a Time Magazine story on the U.S. economy in crisis. Cuyahoga County Sheriff’s Department detective Robert Kole, gun in hand, must ensure residents have fully moved out of their home, after a mortgage foreclosure and eviction. Anthony Suau, the author of the World Press Photo of the Year 2008, will receive his

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Will the US economy go forward or backward with more Deficit Spending?

February 26th, 2009

This recession keeps getting worse every month and the experts who denied it existed for the past year are now saying it will last at least until 2010. We have a new Democrat President with a new administration. Both the House and Senate are also Democratically controlled which makes is scarier because I believe the wrong plans and actions are being implemented. Currently, the housing bust is still in the middle of its collapse. It’s not a pretty sight but that is what happens in a recessio

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