Originally, I expected multi-family housing to stage a large boom.

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He thinks the housing recovery is in its very early stage and sectors related to housing are favorable.

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In the U.S this week housing and manufacturing data will take center stage.

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Once completed it will reopen as the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, complete with housing, businesses, parklands and venues to stage sporting, entertainment and community events.

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Congress set the stage for the crisis by legislating housing policies for which they had no understanding of the economic consequences and then legislating remedies which miss the mark and promise instead, a whole new set of problems.

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Torpedoing the settlement at this stage, however, would sink the housing market still further.

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Mercedes Marquez, assistant secretary at the Department of Housing and Urban Development, told CNNMoney that the initial stage of the program has been difficult, in part, because the cities and communities involved in the program have never done this work before.

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In the final stage, farm-owners have to appear before the Vermont Housing and Conservation Board in Montpelier, the state capital, to answer questions.

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