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Shadow housing minister Jack Dromey repeated calls for a bankers' bonus tax to pay for 25, 000 new homes and 100, 000 new construction jobs for young people.
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"This is a real positive for the entire marketplace, and hopefully this is the first sign that credit markets will open up, " says Jack McCabe, an independent housing analyst in Deerfield Beach, Fla.
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His supporters include Madeleine Albright, the former U.S. secretary of state, and Jack Kemp, a secretary of housing and urban development in the Reagan administration.
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