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Even short-term FHA shutdown will hit housing

FHA shutdown would hit first-time home buyers the hardest. Even a short-term FHA shutdown could dent confidence in the real estate market.
Mortgage rates now at lowest in decades

Mortgage rates sank to the lowest level in decades this week, but the low rates have failed to spark home sales. Mortgage rates for 30-year fixed loans this week are 4.44 percent.
Rising mortgage rates add to housing woes

Higher mortgage rates since March are tied in part to investors' inflation worries.
Home prices: Where's the bottom?

Down 3.3 percent in the past year, median US home values are still 7.6 percent above 2004 levels.

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Scott Budnick works in the dining room as customers arrive for a free meal at the Mathewson Street Friendship Breakfast in Providence, R.I.

Scott Budnick serves breakfast – with a side order of respect – to the homeless

Sunday breakfast at a Providence, R.I., church is more than a free meal. Half the volunteers are homeless themselves: 'It's their [own] breakfast that they're putting on.'

Topic: Bob Walters

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Even short-term FHA shutdown will hit housing

Mortgage rates now at lowest in decades

Rising mortgage rates add to housing woes

Home prices: Where's the bottom?

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