"On my watch there won't be a blind eye turned to anything, that's why over the last number of weeks and couple of months I have been making as assessment of Housing Executive matters, " he said.

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Damage is mostly in the area of housing, infrastructure and crops plantations, but no assessment of those damages yet.

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Optimists dispute this gloomy assessment, pointing out that some measures of housing affordability have dramatically improved.

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"Household spending has shown signs of stabilizing but remains constrained by ongoing job losses, lower housing wealth and tight credit, " said the Federal Reserve in its assessment Wednesday.

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Feinstein has requested that the Government Accountability Office (GAO) produce an assessment of the extent to which there are facilities in the United States that are suitable for housing Gitmo detainees.

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