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Free Housing Expo Offers Assistance to First-Time Buyers and Renters in NYC

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McIntosh said that homebuyers can have access anywhere between $5,000 to $100,000 in downpayment and closing cost assistance from the HUD funded but city administrated HomeFirst Program, which covers 20% of the purchase price up to $100,000 — plus a minimum equity contribution of at least three percent.

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WebMD Bringing Up To 700 Employees To New Jersey

Business Facilities

Popular online healthcare information provider WebMD is relocating its headquarters from New York City to Newark. Read: WebMD Bringing Up To 700 Employees To New Jersey at BusinessFacilities.com.

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Construction Companies Planning to Include Anti-Bias Clauses in Their Contracts

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Barry LePatner, a construction lawyer and founder of New York City-based LePatner & Associates, says these kinds of clauses are becoming more common in contracts, and have already been incorporated by default in owner contracts via federal, state and local anti-harassment laws on protected classes. Jobsite Safety.

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The growing moral responsibility of designing for shade

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As the effects of climate change play out across society, we will need to design cities, buildings, parks and more to increase shade equity. would need to plant 30 million trees to come close to closing these shade equity gaps. Sample capture of American Forests Tree Equity Score tool. All at once, the Jesus S.

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Young Professionals Have Returned to Cities, Impacting Rents

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Young professionals have returned to cities, pushing apartment rents up and taking the stock prices of apartment companies with it. The FTSE Nareit Equity Apartments index, which tracks publicly traded apartment companies, increased 42% since January 2021. Wed, 08/04/2021 - 10:00. That’s 25% more than the S&P 500.

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10 Suburban Escapes With the Hottest Home Prices

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Realtor.com notes that although Lakewood is in close proximity to New York, it appears homes here are being listed and bought by residents rather than ex-urbanites. Lakewood, NJ. Median listing price: $309,000. Percentage increase: 47.6%. All that activity, along with skimpy inventory, has led to a price surge.

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We Analyzed 600+ Construction Job Listings for Gender Bias: What We Found Surprised Us

Autodesk Construction Cloud

We analyzed 600+ job listings in some of the world’s largest cities such as New York City, Los Angeles, London, Sydney, and more. Does this also mean that job listings are tailored towards male candidates? We decided to do research on construction job listings to find out. .

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