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The homes of several senior civil servants have been raided recently as part of corruption investigations, and serious accusations of sexual harassment have been leveled against India’s top environmentalist, Rajendra Pachauri, who headed the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change when it received the Nobel Peace Prize.
With the 1950s reform, families were freed from communal living: they not only got their own kitchens and bathrooms; they were able to live without fear that their private words, spoken in their own homes, would be overheard and reported to the KGB.
For Syrian youths who have been forced from their homes and have lost everything, education is about more than qualifications or test scores; it embodies their hope for the future.
To take just one example, eliminating the monopoly that notaries public hold in countries like France and Italy would substantially decrease the costs of buying and selling homes, decrease the cost of housing, and make it less costly for workers to move to where the jobs are.
Militants chanting “death to the American dervishes” have attacked Sufis’ homes and destroyed shrines near Shiraz, Isfahan, and elsewhere in Iran.
This difference can be explained largely by the fact that 59% of households in Italy own homes, compared to only 26% in Germany.
It took more than 50 years after the telephone was invented for half of American homes to have one, but only 20 years for cellphones to spread from less than 3% of the world’s population to more than two-thirds.
Now a study of severely demented patients in Boston-area nursing homes shows that the “friend” is often being fought with antibiotics.
Many people view the superstar city theory as confirming their hunch that, despite the current slowdown in home prices elsewhere (particularly in the United States), investors can expect to make huge long-term gains by buying homes in these cities, even though the homes there are already expensive.
But what do these arguments really mean for the outlook for investments in homes in superstar cities?Let us consider the fixity of land.
Prices in the cities that Gyourko, Mayer, and Sinai identify as superstars generally appreciated by no more than one or two percent a year more than in the average city from 1950 to 2000, and even that difference is probably largely due to an increase in the size and quality of homes.
Instead, long-time residents have been prevented from returning to their homes.
Ultimately, these financial failures reflect the downward spiral of house prices and the increasing number of homes with negative equity, i.e., with substantial mortgage debt in excess of market values.
As homeowners with large negative equity default, the foreclosed homes contribute to the excess supply that drives prices down further.
In Italy and Germany, the police have searched offices and private homes to secure relevant documents.
More than 250,000 Tamil civilians were kept in virtual internment camps long after the end of hostilities and prevented from exercising their civil rights or returning to their homes.
Moreover, in the case of Nuremberg, the prosecutors and judges could pack up their bags after the trial and leave Germany for their several homes.
We had to make our homes in this, our common motherland, and learn to live with one another.
Gay asylum-seekers are offered shelter at special homes in Germany, for their own protection.
Refugees spend an average of ten years away from their homes.
Her credo, “Wir schaffen das” (“We can do it”), inspired thousands of volunteers to open their hearts – and often their homes – to refugees.
Citizens in a democracy would never allow their government to have an automatic right of forced entry into their homes on the off-chance of finding stolen goods, so why should the state have an automatic right of forced entry into bank accounts on the off-chance of finding a few tax evaders or criminals?
Homes are destroyed and people die.
Today, just 100,000 out of 20 million refugees benefit each year from the UN refugee agency’s resettlement program, which provides permanent new homes in stable countries (a mere 26 participate).
The Case-Shiller index for single-family homes seemed to have recovered in spring 2009, after a 34% decline relative to the last boom.
Construction of new single-family homes in May 2010 was at its lowest point since this indicator’s introduction in 1963.
And the victims are often the innocent “collateral damage” of Western strikes that hit homes, weddings, funerals, and community meetings.
When this happens, many people buy homes to rent out as investment properties, and many more who are buying homes to live in also behave like investors, fearing that if they wait, they will be priced out of the market.
In "glamour cities," newspaper articles feature stories of homes that sold well above asking price, and 45% of respondents in the 2003 survey reported selling at above asking prices in San Francisco.
The bad news, though, is that the run-up of personal debt means that many households will be left with liabilities exceeding the value of their homes, implying a rising number of bankruptcies.
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