Providing Affordable Housing and New Taxpayers to Hopkins Co.
Habitat of Hopkins County has built 57 homes since 1990, involving families, many volunteers, and robust fundraising. Hopkins County Habitat for Humanity aims to build 4 new homes this year. Its...
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Illinois Foreclosure Rate on the Rise
Enlarge image Credit http://www.iconfinder.com Illinois' home foreclosure rate rose 6 percent in October compared to the previous month, and was 19 percent higher than in October of last year. A...
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Conway Joins Effort to Extend Tax Relief to Hurting Homeowners
Enlarge image Credit conwayforcongress.com Kentucky Attorney General Jack Conway joined an effort to urge Congress to extend tax relief to homeowners who have had mortgage debt canceled or forgiven...
View ArticleHow Much House You Can Buy, In 385 U.S. Cities
Are home prices cheap in your city right now?It's common to answer this question by talking about how prices today compare with prices last year, or to look at how prices in your city compare with...
View ArticleConstru Casa Builds Homes for Guatemalan Families with Western Ketucky Help
Badgett Playhouse's Bill Minihan visits Sounds Good with Caroline van Heerde. She's the founder and director of Constru Casa, an organization that builds housing for families living in extreme poverty...
View ArticleChristian County Has One of the Highest Concentrations of Homeless Veterans,...
With one of the highest rates of homeless veterans in Kentucky, Christian County is working to make it easier for those vets to find housing.
View ArticleThe Downside Of Keeping Interest Rates So Low For So Long
The last time the Federal Reserve raised interest rates, it was summer of 2006 — back when Shakira was topping the music charts, Barry Bonds was breaking home run records and the housing bubble was...
View ArticleWill A Fed Interest Rate Hike Slow The Housing Recovery?
The Federal Reserve is expected to start raising interest rates later this week, and anyone who's ever bought a house — or thought about it — knows that if mortgage rates rise by much that will make it...
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