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Housing recovery led by investors, not homeowners
In Georgia, home prices are rising, and foreclosure rates are among the highest in the country, writes Shabnam Bashiri, an organizer for Occupy Our Homes Atlanta. Banks are offering properties to investors for a fraction of the principal owed on them, and the investors are renting out the homes -- often to their former owners -- and securitizing the profits. That's a recipe for another housing meltdown, Bashiri writes.  The Huffington Post (2/4)
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"Great Reset" blurs line between cities, suburbia
The creative economy is among the forces changing the way we live and work, and as a result, the differences between urban and suburban areas are becoming much less distinct, writes Richard Florida. People are more mobile, in part as a result of the rise in rental housing as an alternative to homeownership. Suburbs have a greater diversity of residents -- no longer just families with children -- and suburban shopping centers are more urban in their design. "The most successful suburban and urban neighborhoods both have good transit, mixed uses, and green spaces; most important, they foster the interactions from which vital communities are built," Florida writes.  Urban Land online (1/31)
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