Subject: Media Matters

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    Businessweek Cover Points to Us All

    All the criticism that the recent BusinessWeek cover is getting is well deserved. It deserves even more. The juxtaposition with the relatively benign article inside especially makes one wonder why such smart people came up with such a racist illustration. Was…

  • Bloomberg Thinks You Profited from the Housing Crisis

    The following is, sadly, not a spoof, but a real cover illustration on an article about the housing market: Now, we here at Rooflines were wondering too just the other day if a new bubble was forming. But really, that…

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    Affordable Housing Gone Viral?

    For those of us in the affordable housing field, the map from the National Low-Income Housing Coalition’s annual Out of Reach report showing the “housing wage” in each state of the union is familiar, nearly iconic. Likewise, its headline fact…

  • NHI/Shelterforce Is On Facebook

    We’ve been here a while, but this is a great venue for one-stop shopping for national and industry news from National Housing Institute’s home page, as well as the latest from Shelterforce and Rooflines — NHI’s blog that attracts practitioners,…

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    Just Because His Sleeves Are Rolled Up, It Doesn’t Mean He Means Business

    I’m a little late weighing on on this, but this retrial of Jon Stewart v. Tucker Carlson is not sitting well with me. Countless investors have lost life savings, IRAs, and more “skin” in any game that I’ve ever seen…

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    Let’s Get Serious Here

    Here we go again. To use a catchy Obama phrase during his run for the high office, it seems like these days, it’s always silly season in politics, and the news today of Tom Daschle withdrawing his name as Obama’s…