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The areas where this new and old left can make a difference include improving anti-poverty programs, expanding housing and property rights, effective land reform, developing education, science, and technology, and, perhaps most importantly, strengthening democracy, human rights, and the rule of law in a region where they have been woefully absent for decades.
At least 250 people will receive temporary housing along with “wrap-around” support and psychiatric services.
In a sense, the strategy worked: a housing bubble fed a consumption boom, as savings rates plummeted to zero.
A decade of historically low interest rates has led to economic imbalances in favor of sectors that are highly leveraged: the financial sector, the housing market, and private equity.
Now that the housing bubble has burst, the US finds itself out-trained, out-educated, and out-maneuvered in the global competition for employment.
If adopted, this instrument can make a real difference in the lives of those who are often left to languish at the margins of society, and are denied their economic, social, and cultural rights, such as access to adequate nutrition, health services, housing, and education.
Higher poverty rates exacerbate – and are exacerbated by – virtually every other urbanization-related problem, beginning with housing.
The infrastructure imperative does not end with housing, either.
The Sixty-Year StormToday’s financial crisis, triggered by the collapse of the housing bubble in the United States, also marks the end of an era of credit expansion based on the dollar as the international reserve currency.
The recent US housing boom is a case in point.
Indeed, quality housing and schooling, pensions and unemployment insurance, a modern health system and family social services must not be the fruits of an established democracy but a condition for democracy’s consolidation and survival.
By contrast, the US, in the face of slow growth, was content to sustain exceptionally high levels of consumption at the expense of personal savings, inflating a massive housing bubble that burst with a very large and deeply disturbing bang.
If the housing market started to fail, these paper assurances of safety would become, in Warren Buffett’s words, “financial weapons of mass destruction.”
Similar housing booms in many other countries are now ending, and they may face the pain – and the moral dilemmas – that the US economy is now experiencing.
Moreover, housing markets are not the only issue.
People who bought into the stock market or housing market did either well or poorly, depending on their timing.
But this agency never even acknowledged that there was a housing bubble.
Remarkably, Italy had twice the fall in output seen in France, another large OECD country that, like Italy, had avoided the root causes of the crisis: a housing boom-bust sequence and a serious bank crisis.
This tax has not yet been restored, but the government is planning to introduce a number of new levies on housing, which would ultimately restore the lost revenues.
Construction of settlement housing units is over 45% higher now than in the nine months prior to Annapolis.
What was distinctive this time was that the new borrowing was concentrated in housing.
It is generally true that lower interest rates spur home buying, but this time, as is now well known, commercial and investment banks created new financial mechanisms to expand housing credit to borrowers with little creditworthiness.
Greater home buying pushed up housing prices, which made banks feel that it was safe to lend money to non-creditworthy borrowers.
Of course, it works only as long as housing prices rise.
At a crucial moment in 2005, while he was a governor but not yet Fed Chairman, Bernanke described the housing boom as reflecting a prudent and well-regulated financial system, not a dangerous bubble.
He argued that vast amounts of foreign capital flowed through US banks to the housing sector because international investors appreciated “the depth and sophistication of the country’s financial markets (which among other things have allowed households easy access to housing wealth).”
Housing prices peaked as lending slowed, and prices then started to decline.
The housing bubble was bursting by last fall, and banks with large mortgage holdings started reporting huge losses, sometimes big enough to destroy the bank itself, as in the case of Bear Stearns.
With the housing collapse lowering spending, the Fed, in an effort to ward off recession and help banks with fragile balance sheets, has been cutting interest rates since the fall of 2007.
But this time, credit expansion is not flowing into housing construction, but rather into commodity speculation and foreign currency.
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