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<div><font face="Lucida Grande"><b>Further proof that home-buying is
increasingly for the wealthy</b></font></div>
<div><font face="Lucida Grande">The proportion of new homes with
three-car garages hit an all-time high last year as the housing
industry increasingly turned to construction for older, more monied
residents, according to the National Association of Home
Builders.</font></div>
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>https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/business/wp/2016/10/27/further-p<span
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<div><font face="Geneva" size="-1" color="#000000"><b>The Economist 21
July 2001</b></font></div>
<div><font face="Geneva" size="-1" color="#000000">Big Scary Monsters:
Mortgage-lending agencies in America</font></div>
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<div><font face="Geneva" size="-1" color="#000000">"Perhaps housing
loans should be subsidised, particularly for the poor, because home
ownership is desirable. Even if true, this only partly gets
Fannie and Freddie off the hook. For their ambitions focus ever
more on moving upmarket. They are lobbying for the cap on
mortgages that they can offer to rise, from $275,000 to $412,000 -- to
help the 'ill-housed wealthy', perhaps, murmurs one
analyst."</font></div>
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<div><font face="Geneva" size="-1" color="#000000"><b>Wall Street
Journal APRIL 27, 2009</b></font></div>
<div><font face="Geneva" size="-1" color="#000000">The Green House of
the Future</font></div>
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What will the energy-efficient house of the future look
like?</font><br>
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<div><font face="Geneva" size="-1" color="#000000">A fresh look may be
long overdue, given the amount of damage that homes can do to the
environment.</font></div>
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In fact, that's something that all four of our architects agree on:
Americans need to learn to live in smaller spaces if we are going to
make an impact on the environment.</font></div>
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<div><font face="Geneva" size="-1" color="#000000"><b>Wall Street
Journal May 6, 2016</b></font></div>
<div><font face="Geneva" size="-1" color="#000000">Affordable Starter
Homes Prove Increasingly Elusive<b><br>
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>http://www.wsj.com/articles/affordable-starter-homes-prove-increasin<span
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Excerpt:</b> "Five years into the housing recovery, one crucial
segment of single-family construction has yet to materialize: starter
homes."<br>
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