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Gretchen Morgenson: Lobbyists Win Again In Securing Tax Break For Home Builders

Huffington Post | Nicholas Graham | Posted 11.15.2009 | Business

Read More: Homebuilders, Benefits, Tax Break, Housing, Mortgage Crisis, Losses, Obama, Hovnanian Enterprises, Housing Crisis, Small Businesses, Wall Street, Homebuyers, Foreclosure, Home Loans, Plute Holmes, Lobbyblog, Business News

The New York Times's Gretchen Morgenson points out that lobbyists have won another victory that will lead to billions in taxpayer dollars being handed...

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Survey Shows Rise In First-Time Homebuyers

AP | ALEX VEIGA | Posted 11.14.2009 | Business

Read More: Mortgage, Housing, Homebuyers, Realtors, Socioeconomics, Mortgage Rates, Home Prices, Race, Class, Real Estate, Housing Crisis, Business News

SAN DIEGO — The housing market welcomed a bigger share of first-time buyers and single women this past year, while a majority of sellers resorte...

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Homebuyer Tax Credits Went To Four-Year-Olds

AOL | Patricia Murphy | Posted 10.22.2009 | Business

Read More: Homebuyers, Charles Boustany, Homebuyer Tax Credit, Taxes, John Lewis, Russell George, House Ways and Means Committee, 4 Year Old, Four Year Old, Tax Code, Tax Credits, Business News

There have been more than 500 instances of adults using the names of minors -- including a four-year-old -- to qualify for the first-time homebuyer ta...

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IRS Investigating 100,000 Suspicious Claims For First-Time Home-Buyer Tax Breaks

Wall Street Journal | JOHN D. MCKINNON | Posted 10.20.2009 | Business

Read More: New Home, Fraud, Tax Breaks, First Home, Housing, Irs, Homebuyers, Criminal Realtors, Real Estate, Home Buyer, Tax Credit, Business News

WASHINGTON -- The Internal Revenue Service is examining more than 100,000 suspicious claims for the first-time home-buyer tax break, another sign of p...

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Layoff Insurance: Latest Homebuyer Incentive

AP | ALEX VEIGA | Posted 05.03.2009 | Business

Read More: Layoffs, Homebuyers Insurance, Layoff Insurance, Homebuyers, Horsham-Pennsylvania, Business News

LOS ANGELES — Free granite countertops, swimming pools and landscaping aren't going to convince anyone who's afraid of losing a job to buy a hom...

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Solution to Economy Depends on Refinanced Mortgages, HOME Act

Rep. Dennis Cardoza | Posted 03.01.2009 | Politics

Read More: U.S. Economy, Housing Market, California, Central Valley, Housing, Retirement, Economy, Economic Crisis, Mortgage Crisis, Fannie Mae, Home Act, California's Central Valley, Housing Crisis, Housing Slump, US Economy, Politics, Mortgages, Homebuying, Fannie Mae Bailout, Freddie Mac, Subprime Mortgages, Job Cuts, Saving for Retirement, Homebuyers, Subprime Mortgage Crisis, Politics News
Rep. Dennis Cardoza

American families are losing their homes and I know this problem all too well. It began in my own backyard in California's Central Valley, which has been coined "ground zero" of the housing crisis.

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