A statewide network of nearly 167 advocacy organizations, along with businesses and labor unions, have sent a letter to Gov. Andrew Cuomo asking for $20 million in state funding to support the Community First initiative to provide housing counseling and ...

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WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court appeared sharply divided Wednesday in a debate over a decades-old strategy for fighting discrimination in housing. Chief Justice John Roberts expressed serious doubts during a one-hour argument that the 1968 Fair Housing Act can ...

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A federal grant of slightly more than $1 million is being awarded to the Rochester Veterans Outreach Center to help local veterans with housing stability, prevent homelessness and provide mental health care and other vital services. The grant, through the ...

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Rochester Mayor Lovely Warren and senior staff are gathering information before making a decision on an inquiry about housing 172 immigrant children at the former Blossom South Nursing and Rehabilitation Center. The city will do its due diligence to answer ...

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NEW YORK — For banks, mortgage-making kept profits humming before the financial crisis, then blackened reputations and stamped out earnings when the crisis hit. Now, the business of mortgage lending is more of a mixed bag. Bank of America, the ...

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WASHINGTON, D.C. — Spring buying pushed home prices up for a third straight month in most major U.S. cities in June. But the housing market remains shaky, and further price declines are expected this year. The Standard & Poor’s/Case-Shiller home-price ...

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Stantec Consulting Services Inc. will be the 11th participant in the city’s Employer Assistance Housing Initiative Program which provides incentives for private employers to encourage their employees to purchase homes in the city of Rochester.

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The Veterans Outreach Center in Rochester is set to receive $987,499 in Veterans Affairs Supportive Services for Veteran Families program. The money will serve approximately 500 households in Orleans, Monroe, Wayne, Livingston and Ontario counties ...

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The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development announced that it has awarded members of the Rochester-Monroe County Homeless Continuum of Care more than $3 million dollars to help the homeless obtain permanent housing in the Rochester area.

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WASHINGTON, D.C. — Sales of new homes plunged in February to the slowest pace on records dating back nearly half a century, a dismal sign for an already-weak housing market. New-home sales fell 16.9 percent last month to a seasonally adjusted annual rate ...

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CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Bank of America Corp. is settling some buyback claims on bad home loans sold to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac as it attempts to separate itself further from one of the of the housing downturn's biggest headaches.

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One of Rochester’s toughest neighborhoods is getting a sprucing up by way of new, low-income houses. El Camino Estates, built with private and public financing, is a group of nine three-bedroom and 16 four-bedroom houses scattered through the northeast neighborhoods of Rochester.

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