Topic: Financial Crisis
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Charts
One Surprising Factor Slowing the Economic Recovery
We need more mortgage lenders. 75 percent of the biggest home lenders in 2006 no longer exist.
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What Las Vegas Can Teach Us About America's Housing Market
The city was a case study for the financial collapse; a metaphor for its causes. Four years later, is it showing the way forward?
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The Big Fix
How Can Renters Have More Control Over Their Homes?
A round-up of the best responses to this week's The Big Fix
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Forcing Banks to Secure Foreclosed Homes
A proposed Chicago ordinance would require security guards to be posted outside vacant homes near schools
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Why Suburbs Near Cities Weather Recessions Better
Housing recovery comes quicker to inner-ring suburbs in DC, where commutes are shorter and towns are walkable
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Maps
Where Homeowners Are Underwater
Obama has a new plan to help owners refinance their mortgages, but some places will benefit more than others
