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Housing sought for survivors of deadly mudslides (AP)

Ludmila Moura, 5, sits on a mattress at a shelter for people displaced by landslides in Nova Friburgo, Brazil, Sunday, Jan. 16, 2011, Ludmila was pulled out of her destroyed house by her father Marcelo Moura on the first night of heavy rains last Thursday. Mudslides caused by days of steady rain have killed at least 600 in the area and left residents still stranded in remote, stricken villages.(AP Photo/Felipe Dana)AP – Days after mudslides wiped out whole neighborhoods, many residents continued to live in homes in threatened areas, unwilling to join the thousands crowded into shelters despite the ever-present danger to their lives.


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Cargo plane crashes into Pakistani housing complex (AP)

In this image made from TV is the scene after a cargo plane crashed into a residential area of Karachi, Pakistan's largest city, soon after takeoff Sunday Nov. 28 2010, setting off a huge blaze. The aircraft had eight crew on board, the civil aviation authority said. (AP Photo / APTN)AP – A cargo plane crashed into a housing complex in Karachi soon after takeoff Sunday, setting off a huge blaze and killing all eight Russian crew on board, Pakistan’s civil aviation authority said.


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Housing crisis is not affecting New York City as badly as rest of the nation

While existing home sales fell 27% and new home sales fell an unexpected 12.4% in July nationwide, New York City?s housing market isn?t all doom and gloom.

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Factories aid bumpy recovery, housing still weak (AP)

In this June 4, 2010 photo, a Toll Brothers transport trailer is seen at a home site for sale at Brier Creek Country Club in Raleigh, N.C. Construction of new homes edged up slightly in July but applications for building permits tumbled to the lowest point in 14 months, a sign of continued stress in housing.(AP Photo/Gerry Broome)AP – New government data offered a mixed picture of the economic recovery Tuesday, as U.S. manufacturing activity grew in July at the fastest pace in nearly a year while the outlook for the housing market remained dim.


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Wall St. reformers angered by secret Goldman Sachs emails crowing about housing collapse

Democrats pushing Wall Street reform seized yesterday on e-mails showing Goldman Sachs executives privately crowing over the housing collapse that ruined so many ordinary Americans.

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E-mails reveal Goldman Sachs execs gloated as housing market crashed

E-mails released by a Senate committee investigating the financial crisis show top executives at Goldman Sachs Inc. boasting about money the firm was making as the housing market collapsed in 2007.

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March housing starts gain on multifamily building (AP)

In this April 5, 2010, a construction worker carries a ladder to a home under construction in Sacramento, Calif. Housing construction posted a better-than-expected performance in March, rising to the highest level in 16 months, as strength in the South offset declines in the rest of the country. But economists believe the housing industry is still facing significant headwinds as it tries to recover from the steepest slump in decades.(AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)AP – Housing construction posted a better-than-expected performance in March, rising to the highest level in 16 months on the strength of multi-family homes.


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