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Senate Passes Landrieu Tax Cut For Gulf Coast Homeowners

$1.1 billion tax relief amendment to housing bill would eliminate so-called "Road Home Tax," spur business investment WASHINGTON - April 11, 2008 - (RealEstateRama) —...

Rebuilding Together and NeighborWorks® Work Together to Assist Low-Income Homeowners

WASHINGTON D.C. - Rebuilding Together, the nation’s lead nonprofit working to preserve affordable homeownership, today announced that it has partnered with NeighborWorks® America. The...

Data: U.S. Rep. Melancon Can Act to Save 628 Homes in Congressional District From...

Estimate of Number of Homeowners Who Could Save Home Based on Publicly Available Data from Center for Responsible Lending; Rep. Melancon Urged to Support...

Increased property assessments shock homeowners

Phone lines lit up the second and fourth floors of City Hall Monday as frazzled homeowners across New Orleans started to receive unwelcome letters...

Property reassessments steam N.O. homeowners

Editor’s note: Moving Forward is the first of a two-part series on how New Orleans is recovering from Hurricane Katrina as the two-year anniversary...

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T & I Committee Passes Graves’ Legislation to Improve Disaster Recovery

The House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure advanced a slate of bills today, including a bipartisan disaster relief bill authored by Reps. Garret Graves (LA-6) and Stacey Plaskett (D-V.I.). The legislation, H.R. 1311 is designed to help communities recover from disasters and increase disaster program transparency and oversight