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		<title>THE best explanation of the credit crisis that I&#8217;ve seen.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve heard everyone- professors, media,  finance people, government officials, non-profit leaders (all with their many-armed diagrams) try to explain how the housing/credit crisis all started.   Best case scenario, those presentations are boring.  Worst case scenario, they leave you more confused than when you started! Today, I discovered this video, done by a graduate student, explaining [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Uses for Neighborhood Stabilization Funds: A Reaction</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A recent report done by Enterprise Community Partners found that communities are going a good job of finding creative way to utilize Neighborhood Stabilization funds.

The San Francisco Chronicle wrote an article about the report's findings.  I must say that I am impressed with the different ways the report said that communities are using the funds, however, some of them can still be problematic.  Let's take them one by one.]]></description>
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