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Arizona split on use of impact fees
Arizona's cities and homebuilders have been slammed by the recession, and both have very different ideas about how money should be raised to keep the state's roads and sewers from crumbling. Peter O'Dowd reports. (11/04/2009)
Has housing market still not hit bottom?
Home prices rose for a third straight month in August. But despite stabilizing signs, a growing number of experts are skeptical that the crashing housing market might finally have hit the bottom. Bob Moon reports. (10/27/2009)
A look at home and oil prices
Juli Niemann, analyst at Smith, Moore and Company, talks with Bill Radke about the rise in U.S. home prices, and why the price of oil isn't even cheaper with demand down. (10/27/2009)
UN to look at U.S. housing conditions
A special envoy from the UN Commission on Human Rights will tour the U.S. to review housing conditions. John Dimsdale reports. (10/26/2009)
Should home-buyer tax credit go on?
Sales of existing homes jumped 9.4% last month, fueling debate over whether the first-time home-buyer tax credit should be extended beyond its Nov. 30 cutoff. Nancy Marshall Genzer reports. (10/23/2009)
Faster foreclosures, quicker turnaround
Barry Ritholtz of Fusion IQ tells host Bob Moon that mortgage modification programs aren't working very well. The overall economy would return to better health in a shorter time, he says, if the pace of foreclosures were accelerated. (10/23/2009)
One family's recessionary tale
The Kaser family of suburban Minneapolis has been hit hard by the recession. Both parents have lost their jobs, and they are no longer able to make the mortgage payments. Annie Baxter reports on how the family is coping. (10/23/2009)
Getting Personal
Nic Retsinas, director of Harvard University's Joint Center for Housing Studies, and Bob Moon answer listeners' questions ranging from lender troubles to subprime second mortgages. (10/23/2009)
Let the home buyers' tax credit expire
The Obama administration is debating whether to extend a tax credit for first-time home buyers. Economics correspondent Chris Farrell tells Bill Radke why he thinks they shouldn't. (10/22/2009)
Housing market gets hammered
Chris Mayer from Columbia University's Business School talks with Stacey Vanek-Smith about why applications for building permits have dropped and what's going on with the first-time home buyer tax break program. (10/20/2009)
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