"Some local authorities have 'fine-tuned' their property policies by allowing home buyers to borrow more from public housing funds, causing a rebound in home prices, " Zhang Dawei, an analyst at Beijing-based Zhongyuan Real Estate, was quoted as saying by the state news agency Xinhua.
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The family lived modestly in the top floor of a multifamily house on a side street in Cambridge, the friend said, helped partly by Section 8 housing funds and the largess of their landlord, an elderly woman who also tutored and helped the family place the children in good local schools.
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is to sell his 33-year-old car to raise money for a charity that funds housing projects for young people.
There are also tax credits aimed at homebuilders and other businesses hurt by the housing crisis, and funds for counseling.
He added that many churches were built 150 years ago and redundant ones could be leased or sold to housing associations with the funds going back into the ministry.
Back in the fall of 2005, the Federal Reserve, U.S. Treasury and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) realized that community banks were loaning funds to the housing and real estate markets at a pace above what these regulators thought as prudent.
More funds will go into housing, but not because of free private markets.
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On a larger scale, Low Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) funds like this one could potentially help the economy by spurring real estate development and investment.
Funds needed for three social housing developments has been secured by the Guernsey Housing Association (GHA).
Macro funds are more demanding because they follow, or one might argue, create opportunity, like the U.S.-based funds that bet against the housing bubble.
When Spain's fiscal-stimulus package provided funds to build low-cost housing, it was criticised for spurring more construction in a country that had already seen too much.
And funds to provide low-cost housing for low-income seniors were cut by about 15 percent, although a new program to provide counseling for the elderly seeking affordable housing was funded.
The already booming housing market went on steroids, as did hedge funds and equity funds.
Neil Hennessey, chief investment officer at Hennessey Funds, is opting to play the housing trade outside the builders, where he sees more value.
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The housing sector could benefit from lower rates and more funds.
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Other investors include mutual funds, insurers, and the municipal housing society.
Expenditures for financing of branches of the economy are funds assigned for branches of material production, housing and municipal and personal services.
When vets arrive -- through referral by the Veterans Administration, which largely funds the program -- they receive meals, housing, clothing, counseling and transportation to the VA hospital for additional medical and mental health care.
These funds offer liquid access to a diverse portfolio of multifamily housing, office, retail, health care, warehouse and industrial buildings.
Housing loans are not packaged up into sophisticated investment products for hedge funds and the bulge bracket banks to play around with.
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That's why his first budget included pay raises and funding for better military housing and more money for child care, in addition to more funds for career development, counseling and support for spouses.
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With most of the country's major lenders discovering billion-dollar losses linked to bad mortgage debt as the US housing market collapsed, investment banks such as Bear Stearns needed government funds ahead of being sold off cheaply, while another, Lehman Brothers, was ultimately closed down.
On the other hand, housing didn't produce returns as high as high-grade bond funds or gold.
The funds instead will be distributed to organizations that provide credit and housing counseling in minority communities, Ms. Hinojosa said.
The funds will go to a range of projects, including rebuilding housing and mass transit, protecting against future floods and helping businesses recoup some storm-related losses.
Why were the bundlers and buyers of junk mortgages the politically-connected big banks while the chief critics and short sellers of the housing trade were mostly unknown (and often eccentric) managers of small, entrepreneurial hedge funds?
Also in 1995, HUD established regulatory quotas requiring Fannie and Freddie to devote 40% of their funds in 1996, and 42% in 1997, to low and moderate income housing.
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The two firms are the industry leaders in the (once) lucrative business of providing hedge funds with financing, lending them shares for short-selling purposes, settling trades and housing fund assets.
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Last year, a lack of funds prompted city officials to cancel the program, which was subsidized in 2010 by the Bridgeport Housing Authority.
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The biggest move came in 2004, when Romney signed legislation, dubbed Chapter 40R, providing funds to towns and cities that agreed to allow more high-density, multi-family housing.
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