Temporary communities build permanent ones back home
Millions of immigrants from Ecuador and throughout Latin America have headed to the United States in the last few decades in search of the storied ... immigrants build dream homes in native landMurillo noted that not everything is perfect ... American dream. But for many, the dream will be realized only when they return home to the houses [more...]
Date: 2009-01-06 05:13:00
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Casualties of the American Dream
Pioneer Woman Collecting Cattle Dung, Kansas, c.1880 Every dream has its price ... homes, bigger cars and bigger HDTVs. Is this truly “the American Dream”? Having “House Beautiful” ... Dream about these days? Material prosperity is a thin reflection masking a sorry fact–the bigger [more...]
Date: 2009-01-14 05:53:46
The Free Lunch Approach to Finance
Over the last week, the media has been abuzz with numerous bailout plans to help homeowners in danger of losing their homes ... this appropriately. The American dream to a large extent entails homeownership. The problem ... millions of Americans are living in homes they cannot afford. Many of them have simply stopped [more...]
Date: 2008-11-05 20:59:32
Designing A Dream Home Office
smSmallBiz.com: As more and more Americans work from home — be it running a business or telecommuting for a job — the home office, which was once relegated to a small corner in a kitchen or perhaps a dank basement, is finally ... was completed. Patrick wouldn’t disclose how much his home office’s renovation cost, but it’s safe [more...]
Date: 2008-06-24 16:09:55
Helpful Ways To Save Money In Hard Times
The credit crunch is continuing to beat thousands of people out of their homes - people who once lived the American dream. They worked hard for their dream and thanks to a volatile situation with several areas of blame, many of them are now homeless without money to spare. Living without money and struggling to pay [more...]
Date: 2008-11-07 12:56:35
Bush's Zero Down Payment mural
Here's the official mural, entitled "Stepping Into the American Dream," that Javier Cortada was commissioned to paint for President Bush's October 15, ... of all Americans own their homes, yet we have a problem here in America because few than half ... . Imagine to be coming to our country without a home, with a simple dream. And now they're on stage here [more...]
Date: 2008-11-21 01:19:42
Spend more time looking at your reflection with the interactive mirror
Interactive Mirror from Alpay Kasal on Vimeo. Interactive Mirror by LitStudios and Interference Inc. Via. Relatedly, here's a "mirror" made out of moving wooden blocks: *Previously: Cool photo taken with a mirror. *Buy "Best of American Dream Homes: 30 Outstanding Homes" at Amazon. [more...]
Date: 2008-10-27 09:26:00
Home Ownership & The American Dream
Part four: Costs and Benefits to Society. Logic dictates that encouraging homeownership should be a public policy goal because it positively impacts ... , the physical structure of the homes is the overwhelming variable,” says Glaeser. Or, to put it another way, the people who live in detached single-family homes tend to own them — and most of those [more...]
Date: 2009-01-19 14:47:00
house planning
As an Architecture student, I had a whole collection of architectural magazines and books that I find very inspiring in my studies ... that you need in finding the perfect plan of that dream home whether it is an American, Mediterranean ... when it comes to form and function. You won’t be paying more for an architectural drawing plan since [more...]
Date: 2008-12-18 22:25:12
Is Home Ownership Still the American Dream?
Photo courtesy of Oracio Alvarado Over the last couple months two long-held truths of the financial world have been turned on their heads. One, money market mutual funds can’t lose money, and two, the value of real estate always goes up. Unfortunately, many have discovered neither of these “truths” have ever been 100% true, just assumed [more...]
Date: 2008-11-04 11:00:02
Mortgage meltdown
BILL MOYERS JOURNAL travels to ground zero of the mortgage meltdown—Cleveland, Ohio ... . There, more than 1,000 homes stand vacant and decaying in a neighborhood that once thrived with families living the American dream of home ownership. Moyers gets perspective from veteran journalist William [more...]
Date: 2008-12-01 15:17:05
A State Of Overbuild
The Grand Junction Free Press reports from Colorado. “Seven hours before the polls closed in Colorado, Sen ... up, keep people in their homes — that’s the American dream, and I’m going to protect it.’” ... this morning, a town of under 5,000 permanent residents where 70 percent of the homes are owned [more...]
Date: 2008-11-05 17:23:32
Don't Believe The Hype: We're Losing Our Homes Too
If the financial state of the economy hasn't hit you in some way - even if it means going to the dollar g-clubs - well - you're better off then most ... amounts of wasabi just because we can: The American Dream of prosperity and home ownership ... to find a way to dispel that myth.” The nonprofit found that 53 percent of homes about to enter [more...]
Date: 2009-01-16 05:21:06
Saving Thousands With Duluth House Painters
Home ownership is the American Dream, yet it seems to be one project after another and repair after repair ... has penetrated the wood of your house. Mildew and mold can be green, brown, white or black ... if you tackle it right away. When paint falls, it leaves your house exposed to mold, sun-damage, rotting [more...]
Date: 2008-08-14 17:59:33
HOUSING PUSH FOR HISPANICS SPAWNS WAVE OF FORECLOSURES
For years, immigrants to the U.S. have viewed buying a home as the ultimate benchmark of success ... -generation U.S. residents who didn't own homes. Many Hispanic families had multiple wage earners working ... the doors to the American Dream for first-time home buyers. But in reality, for many of them [more...]
Date: 2009-01-06 13:19:54
80,000+ Rock With Springsteen And Obama At Ohio Campaign Rally
As only 'The Boss' himself can deliver: No one can quite make the case like Bruce Springsteen, the eloquent lyricist, observer of America, ... between the American dream and the American reality. And I look around today and many Americans are losing their jobs, or their homes, or seeing their retirement funds disappear, and don't have health care [more...]
Date: 2008-11-04 00:20:27
Redefining the American Dream - Work From Home and Love It!
If you have been laid off in this recessionary economy or fear that you could be let go in the next round of layoffs then you need to read this ... companies are laying off large portions of their workforce. People want the security of a job yet [more...]
Date: 2009-01-19 04:23:08
Martin Luther King's Gift to Obama
He has been gone now for more years than he lived but, on the birthday we celebrate today, Martin Luther King Jr. would have been only 80 years old ... he told them, and he used it with stunning force.At the dawn of TV, he brought into American homes images ... dream. [more...]
Date: 2009-01-19 05:30:00
Obama Makes Closing Argument on Common Purpose
Sen. Barack Obama, the Democratic nominee, is aiming to bring it home today ... to the American dream. In the final excerpt, Obama contends that America’s financial woes are a product ... , lenders tricked people into buying homes they couldn’t afford. Some folks knew they couldn’t afford [more...]
Date: 2008-10-27 15:52:57
Tampa-based Jim Walter Homes calls it quits
Jim Walter Homes, which has built more than 350,000 homes since World War II, is officially kaput ... , announced Tuesday it will focus mostly on its coal business. “The story of Jim Walter Homes began as World War II ended and soldiers came home to pursue the American Dream. Regrettably, it ends [more...]
Date: 2009-01-06 17:56:42
Books to Give
Many months ago when I learned about Santa Barbara Living, I knew come November I would add it to my library since three Michael Smith-designed homes ... playing in the sun: the American dream at its most ideal. As you would expect, many of the houses [more...]
Date: 2008-11-09 19:07:12
"Great news: Home prices have fallen!"
From Fortune: With declines of 30% or more California markets like Sacramento and San Bernadino, ... homes. New statistics show home affordability has soared in the Northern San Joaquin Valley as plummeting prices enable more families to attain the American dream...The National Association of Home [more...]
Date: 2008-11-19 22:08:00
Housing Push for Hispanics Spawns Wave of Foreclosures
California Rep. Joe Baca has long pushed legislation he said would “open the doors to the American Dream” for first-time home buyers in his largely ... in his district have lost their homes to foreclosure. For years, immigrants to the U.S. have viewed buying [more...]
Date: 2009-01-07 13:39:44
Housing Push for Hispanics Spawns Wave of Foreclosures
California Rep. Joe Baca has long pushed legislation he said would “open the doors to the American Dream” for first-time home buyers in his largely ... in his district have lost their homes to foreclosure. For years, immigrants to the U.S. have viewed buying [more...]
Date: 2009-01-07 13:39:44
Sunday Night Stats - Buying at 2005 Prices
Before posting my thoughts of the week regarding where home prices are going, I have been doing a lot of thinking about “Rethinking the American Dream”. I found this post ... for those same homes. Also, you have to look at a sample small enough to evaluate, in this case I used [more...]
Date: 2008-11-24 19:07:35
Full Text: President-Elect Obama Weekly Radio Address | Mortgage Crisis and HUD Appointment | December 13
(Source: Office of the President-Elect) Good morning ... . It not only shakes the foundation of our economy, but the foundation of the American Dream ... in their homes. But this plan will only work with a comprehensive, coordinated federal effort to make [more...]
Date: 2008-12-13 14:43:27
Obama Makes HUD Pick
Obama Makes HUD Pick by BooMan Sat Dec 13th, 2008 at 01:46:55 PM EST Here's Barack Obama's weekly address: Good morning ... . It not only shakes the foundation of our economy, but the foundation of the American Dream ... in their homes. But this plan will only work with a comprehensive, coordinated federal effort to make [more...]
Date: 2008-12-13 19:22:08
Prairie House Plans
Prairie House Plans December 31st, 2008 · Comments Off Powered By CbproAds Prairie House Plans Living in a welcoming home in a lovely setting is the American dream. Maybe you have country farm house plans of your own after seeing television shows featuring old-time family life. The rich history of prairie style homes makes them [more...]
Date: 2008-12-31 12:52:06
a pie in the face is the very least i’d like to give john mccain
I’d very much like to give him a piece of my mind ... seem like a giant McMansion tract. But when I was born in Garden City in 1965, Long Island was home ... of the American dream in a sweet little brick bungalow in Garden City, with its niche on the landing [more...]
Date: 2008-10-15 17:05:28
It's the American Dream! (Nigerian Scammer Style)
Here's an National Public Radio article about one of the folks Congress voted $700 billion to bailout: Emmanuel Njoku thought he was living the American dream. The immigrant from Nigeria invested ... , where Njoku once owned property, and decided it must be cursed. In fact, more than 800 homes [more...]
Date: 2008-11-18 19:14:54
Monday Morning Linkage
... for park use Daily Breeze · An American Dream: Illegals can pay for their homes LA Times · BofA [more...]
Date: 2008-10-06 17:19:49
[Treasury-Paulson-American Dream-Working In The Taxpayer's Behalf Update] Drive Home Prices Down
I took a double take today after reading HousingWire’s article about Treasury Secretary Paulson’s rejection of the rumor that the US Treasury was ... ? Ok, I’m back The financial system enabled now-obviously illogically cheap credit which pushed ... for consumers who buy houses in the coming months. But in the meantime, the news threw a wrench [more...]
Date: 2008-12-18 16:55:15
"Stamp Series" Premier at LA Art Walk Thurdsay 1/8/09
The Los Angeles Center for Digital Art is premiering artist Leslie Tucker’s “The Stamp Series” 1/8-1/31/09 ... the jump.Press Release: Leslie Tucker offers an ironic analysis of the American Dream put forth in a series ... are in our homes to stay, and our oceans. “Hard To Swallow” [more...]
Date: 2009-01-07 20:00:46
My Financial Implosion: Bad House
“A house is a home when it shelters the body and comforts the soul.” – Phillip Moffitt For most people, the idea of home ownership is irresistible. Owning your own piece of dirt, with a house and a white picket fence is the American Dream. Unfortunately, in many parts of the country, it’s a dream that can be nearly impossible to attain [more...]
Date: 2009-01-06 20:13:40
We Don’t Need No Stinking Bailout Plan
Photo courtesy of Michael Casey After news began trickling out of Washington that we may be due another stimulus check, ... . Just a couple decades ago people were perfectly content to live in homes with modest square footage, three ... office, double garage on a one acre lot. To finance this “American Dream” many people [more...]
Date: 2008-09-29 11:00:43
24-Hour Power
At 8 p.m. tomorrow, MTV audiences will see The Real World through the eyes of real people in south Louisiana ... , and, despite working 12- to 14-hour days, still aren’t back (in their homes).” “We hope ... marathon, titled “24 Hour Rebuild the Dream” and presented by Entergy, American Airlines and the United [more...]
Date: 2009-01-19 17:30:35
HUD Secretary Donovan
HUD Secretary Donovan December 13, 2008 In a long-speculated move, ... Americans," Obama said. "Trained as an architect, Shaun understands housing down to how homes ... greedy lenders. He knows that we can put the dream of owning a home within reach for more families [more...]
Date: 2008-12-13 12:13:28
DwellStudio’s American Thanksgiving
Date: 2008-11-13 04:00:41
"Affordable" Health Care and "affordable" housing -- "affordable" for whom?
Debbie Halvorson's current biggest hammer on 11th CD opponent Marty Ozinga is that he's insensitive to the nation's uninsured health care needs ... these people without their own part of the American dream. That need to have access to their own homes [more...]
Date: 2008-09-29 15:04:12
Markets in Everything: Beer, Rats, Smaller Homes
1. Beer delivery service in Florida.2. Rat meat in Cambodia. 3. Rat farming in India. 4. Smaller homes in US, as recession shrinks the "American Dream."HTs: Craig Summers for #1, Ben Cunningham for #2 - #4. [more...]
Date: 2009-01-12 16:43:00
Reassessing the fundamentals of the building industry
Although I had touched on this same subject in a much briefer format for my most recent column for Builder & Developer magazine ( ... spectacular—but with dire consequences—was how the “American Dream” mutated into “America’s Piggybank” ... to—or were duped into—home purchases their incomes couldn’t afford, and owners used those homes [more...]
Date: 2009-01-15 22:13:00
WSJ: "Housing Push for Hispanics Spawns Wave of Foreclosures"
From the Wall Street Journal:"Housing Push for Hispanics Spawns Wave of Foreclosures"By SUSAN SCHMIDT and MAURICE TAMMANCalifornia Rep. Joe Baca has long pushed legislation he said would "open the doors to the American Dream ... . Nearly 9,200 families in his district have lost their homes to foreclosure.For years, immigrants [more...]
Date: 2009-01-05 04:10:00
Former Countrywide Marketing Exec Claims “Some Guilt” in Subprime Mortgage Disaster
amazon.com Adam Michaelson worked as the senior vice president of marketing for Countrywide Financial ... of Countrywide Home Loans, the Mortgage Crisis, and the Default of the American Dream”. WSJ: What did [more...]
Date: 2009-01-07 16:27:31
Thank You for The Light
It seems a lot of folks are in the dark about the future these days.People are losing their homes, being laid off from jobs, and lost in the dark forest, where the American Dream is sound asleep.Though we are placing our hope in words we need to hear, we don’ [more...]
Date: 2009-01-18 16:50:10
Media ignoring Bush's jihad against down payments
I keep reading articles trying to explain the mortgage meltdown, but the mainstream media's coverage almost utterly ignores George W ... governments continues to finance the confiscation and demolition of private homes, and HUD programs ... 16, 2003, Homeownership is more than just a symbol of the American dream; it is an important part [more...]
Date: 2008-11-23 09:51:13
Inauguration Day
I am experiencing this historic moment in the DFW airport waiting to catch my flight to Nashville ... more are watching from schools, homes, businesses, and from remote places around the world ... we recognize that the infant American dream has grown up and suceeded. And that is a victory worth [more...]
Date: 2009-01-20 16:03:00
Wall Street Journal reports on causes of the housing bubble that burst our economy and in the long run helped no one out...
From the Wall Street Journal.... Housing Push for Hispanics Spawns Wave of Foreclosures-"California Rep. Joe Baca has long pushed legislation he said would "open the doors to the American Dream ... . Nearly 9,200 families in his district have lost their homes to foreclosure. Foreclosure Crisis Hits [more...]
Date: 2009-01-08 08:01:00
What more can America give to Barack Obama?
Every morning when I drive to my downtown Miami office I take the backstreets to avoid most of the traffic ... ? By their homes and the cars parked in front it appears they have achieved a very high level of the American dream. Yet, for some reason, they feel this country needs to be changed. Is the change they want [more...]
Date: 2008-11-03 15:57:18
UPDATED: FHA:The New Subprime..What Better Time To For Obama To Appoint Penny Pritzker Secretary of Commerce..Update: Pritzker says no, thanks to “vetting issues.”
The same people whose reckless practices triggered the global financial crisis are onto a similar scheme that could cost taxpayers tons more As if ... ! This is in no way, shape or form, the American Dream that our ancestors lived. By that I mean ... . They saved their hard earned money and didn’t spend foolishly. They bought their homes with cash [more...]
Date: 2008-11-20 15:01:21
Blagojevich Calls For Foreclosure Moratorium
Blagojevich Calls For Foreclosure Moratorium by Josh Kalven on October 30, 2008 - 2:23pm The AP is reporting that Gov ... homeownership is central to the American dream and that rules have to be changed to help people stay in their homes. Legislatures in Michigan, Minnesota, New York, Ohio, Texas, and several other [more...]
Date: 2008-10-30 19:23:43
