Home and Garden
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Gaps surface in national housing marketJan 28, 2017 5:01 am - As the housing market nears full recovery, widening gaps along racial, socio-economic and generational lines are impacting the growth of the housing market and individua...
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Another needed remedy for weaknesses in the home loan marketJan 28, 2017 5:00 am - With a new administration in Washington, the time is ripe to reconsider some fundamental features of our housing finance system. In recent articles, I focused on three w...
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Older couple prefers renting, and that's OKJan 28, 2017 5:00 am - Q. We are 63 and 68 years old and still working. We sold our home and relocated across the country a couple of years ago for our current jobs. We are renting a house and...
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Designers find creative ways to make new products from recyclingJan 27, 2017 5:00 am - Recycling has become the norm in many communities. The detritus of our daily lives — plastic, glass, metal and paper — makes its weekly trek to processing plants across ...
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Tax reform could knock your investment plans off trackJan 27, 2017 5:00 am - WASHINGTON - The small-scale owners of millions of rental homes, parcels of investment land and income-producing commercial and business real estate might not know it, b...
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Brick, wood and concrete make architectural statements in urban loftsJan 22, 2017 5:01 am - Large cities like New York, Milan and Paris have no choice but to snatch up space for residential use in what used to be neighborhoods bustling with industrial activity....
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Small changes to accommodate a senior visitorJan 22, 2017 5:01 am - The new year always begins with all sorts of ambitious ideas for change. What better time to look around your home and ready one small space for a visit from a senior pa...
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What the ancient Greeks can teach us about herbsJan 22, 2017 5:00 am - At a point in the ninth century, someone noticed a problem with all those ancient handwritten texts: The scribes had left their Caps Lock on. Every character had been re...
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Downtime in winter is an opportunity to get organized for springJan 22, 2017 5:00 am - After the holidays, our household is full of quiet celebrations that can be just as joyous as the noisier ones. Aflame with the spirit of cleaning up, clearing out and s...
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'Blue Collar Millionaire' turned her family's messes into 'slobproof' furnitureJan 22, 2017 5:00 am - The messes were mounting, and Debbie Wiener was seething. "It all started when I married a slob and then gave birth to two more slobs," she said. Her husband, she said, ...