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St. Paul looks for squatters in foreclosed homes
The St. Paul Pioneer Press looks at one of the inevitable results of having a lot of foreclosed properties: Squatting. MPR also recently covered the subject, discussing the circumstances that might lead people to become squatters.
Blight Flight: Minneapolis, St. Paul receive housing bucks, but who benefits?
Molly Priesmeyer looks at the Economic Recovery Act of 2008 (facts on the program; PDF from MnHousing.org) in which the Twin Cities will work together to purchase vacant
Prefab post-crash
Moco Loco: (Twin Citian) Charlie Lazor is the founder of FlatPak, the system of prefab building components that are configured to meet the client's needs. The client works with the design team to create the best house for the site and can have as much creative input as he or she wishes. Or simply leave it up to the design team.
The Seventh Sign: $30 Chianti
This morning, around 7 a.m., a senior White House economist citing unexpected job growth last month pronounced the U.S. economy "still strong" and said he does not believe we are headed into a recession.
If you're like me you're both encouraged by this news and slightly perplexed. The world as viewed by Edward Lazear, chairman of the White House Council of Economic Advisers, does not appear to be the same one I'm looking at — and living in — each day.
