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Housing

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• Builders Downsize the Dream Home (The Wall Street Journal, November 13, 2009)
• Boston to buy properties to protect tenants (The Boston Globe, October 29, 2009)
• Foreclosures Force Ex-Homeowners to Turn to Shelters (New York Times, October 18, 2009)
• Residents of transit-oriented Orenco Station still driving cars to work (Oregonian, October 17, 2009)
• Sheltering L.A. County's homeless could save taxpayer money, study finds (Los Angeles Times, October 13, 2009)
• There’s no place like home (Newsweek, October 9, 2009)
• Avi Friedman on Affordable and Sustainable Housing Innovations (Northwest Hub, October 8, 2009)
• Retiring baby boomers begin heading for the country (The Oregonian, October 3, 2009)
• Seniors communities in cities, town centers (San Jose Mercury News, October 2, 2009)
• Making Suburbia More Livable (The Wall Street Journal, September 19, 2009)
• Surge in homeless pupils strains schools (New York Times, September 5, 2009)
• One man’s trash … (New York Times, September 3, 2009)
• Towns Accommodate ‘Affordable’ (New York Times, August 28, 2009)
• Cities tolerate homeless camps (Wall Street Journal, August 11, 2009)
• More Families Are Becoming Homeless (Washington Post, July 12, 2009)
• Homelessness in suburbs, rural areas increases (USA Today, July 8, 2009)
• ‘Transit cities’ face roadblocks (New York Times, June 19, 2009)
• Boulder County Commissioners to tweak house-size rules (Daily Camera, June 16, 2009)
• White rooftops may help slow warming (Washington Post, June 14, 2009)
• Vancouver caps downtown condos to save office space (CBC News, May 6, 2009)
• Economic casualties pile into tent cities (USA Today, May 5, 2009)
• Seniors at home in co-housing (USA Today, May 4, 2009)
• Foreclosures take health along with homes, report says (Mercury News, April 21, 2009)
• Homelessness up as families on the edge lose hold (USA Today, April 6, 2009)
• In the exurbs, the American Dream is up for rent (Wall Street Journal, March 31, 2009)
• Banks Starting to Walk Away on Foreclosures (New York Times, March 29, 2009)
• Cities deal with a surge in shantytowns (New York Times, March 25, 2009)
• Americans are moving on up to smaller, smarter homes (USA Today, March 17, 2009)
• Urban areas see revival in housing construction (USA Today, March 10, 2009)
• I Dream of Denver (New York Times, February 16, 2009)
• Schools face sharp rise in homeless students (Washington Post, February 8, 2009)
• Affordable housing hits a wall in time of rising need (Christian Science Monitor, February 6, 2009)
• Dallas likely to pay for 500 homes for homeless (The Dallas Morning News, January 29, 2009)
• New homes being built smaller (USA Today, January 15, 2009)
• The 'McMansion' trend in housing is slowing (Christian Science Monitor, January 6, 2009)
• Obama pick pioneered innovative affordable housing (USA Today, December 14, 2008)
• City may buy vacant homes; Huntington Beach considers fixing up properties and selling them to residents (Orange County Register, December 14, 2008)
• Why home values may take decades to recover (USA Today, December 12, 2008)
• Housing-Crisis Grants Force Cities to Make Tough Choices (Wall Street Journal, December 5, 2008)
• Unable to Sell Homes, Elderly Forgo Move to Assisted Living (New York Times, November 21, 2008)
• Steadied by wartime economy, military towns around some bases sheltered from real estate bust (Chicago Tribune, November 11, 2008)
• More governments coming to evicted renters' rescue (USA Today, October 26, 2008)
• Homeless numbers 'alarming' (USA Today, October 20, 2008)
• Housing projects benefit more than just tenants (San Francisco Chronicle, October 19, 2008)
• Whistler project provides affordable housing options (The Vancouver Sun, October 8, 2008)
• Specialty Shops Raise Home Values. (The Portland Tribune, October 1, 2008)
• Los Angeles mayor announces bold housing plan (USA Today, September 30, 2008)
• In hard times, tent cities rise across the country (Yahoo News, September 18, 2008)
• To slow global warming, install white roofs (Los Angeles Times, September 10, 2008)
• The Next Little Thing? (New York Times, September 10, 2008)
• Headway with the homeless (Christian Science Monitor, August 28, 2008)
• Communities Become Home Buyers to Fight Decay (New York Times, August 25, 2008)