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Issues relating to affordable housing

An Assessment of Fair and Affordable Housing on the Border: Who's Being Locked Out? An Assessment of Fair and Affordable Housing on the Border: Who's Being Locked Out?
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Year: 07-Jan-2004
Purchasing a home is usually a person’s biggest and longest life investment. As Larry Garcia, the Executive Director of the El Paso Credit Union Affordable Housing Corporation put it, “owning a home gives a family wealth, economic, social stability.

Housing Affordability: Striking a Balance Between Achieving the American Dream and Paying for it Housing Affordability: Striking a Balance Between Achieving the American Dream and Paying for it
Size: 260 KB
Year: 02-Jan-2002
Home ownership and developing a tax base that can pay for government services are two important societal goals. They can, however, become competing goals in communities such as El Paso that have a higher percentage of lower income families and a tax ...

The American Dream/El Sueno Americano: How Does El Paso, Texas Fare in the Home Mortgage Lending Mar The American Dream/El Sueno Americano: How Does El Paso, Texas Fare in the Home Mortgage Lending Mar
Size: 291 KB
Year: 02-Jan-2002
Homeownership is a valued American tradition. As a consequence of homeownership, jobs are created, investments are made and the community is benefited as a whole. Homeownership develops a sense of stability...



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