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Cracking the code of affordable housing

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million homes that are accessible to low-income renters. Nationwide, 60% of all workers earn less than what’s required to afford a two-bedroom rental home, according to a June report by the National Low Income Housing Coalition, which also cited the shortage of affordable housing.

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Nevada Stops Subsidizing Net Metering

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Net energy metering generally utilizes the existing meter for all calculations thereby avoiding the expense and complexity of a second meter to measure incoming and outgoing energy separately. But the retail rate is at an actual loss to the monopoly utility.

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10 Cities at Greatest Risk for Possible Housing Crisis

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FHA mortgages are catered to borrowers who may be first-time, minority, or lower-income, Realtor.com says. Houston has the second highest number of delinquent FHA loans, followed by Chicago, Washington, DC, and Dallas. Atlanta’s metro region has the most delinquent mortgages—53,000 to be exact. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

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U.S. CRE Turning Around In 2014, According To New PwC/ULI Report

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Respondents believe that the job and income growth generated by the sector will support rising real estate demand. San Jose – San Jose is the third-ranked market for the second year in a row, with investors attracted to the prospects offered by the city’s technology industry.

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When office-to-residential conversion works

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In most cases, these office-to-residential incentives are necessary to offset the other economic forces at play, DC Managing Principal Barbara Mullenex says. Office buildings are worth more” than residential as income generators, she explains. Generally, the highest and best use for something is office, if there’s a market for it.

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Cover Story: New Energy Powers Growth

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Nebraska is the only all public power state in the country, which means wind resources in the state must be sold to Nebraska utilities which have all of the retail customers in the state. percent of the electricity supplied to retail customers in the state be from qualified renewable energy resources by 2021.

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Centers of Technology: The Future Is Now

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We have low costs of doing business, our corporate income tax rate is the lowest in New England, the quality of life is high and cost of living is relatively low.”. The Washington, DC area also has become home to a growing cluster of rising data analytics companies and startups. Rhode Island is very competitive,” said Pryor. “We