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NEW YORK, Feb. 16, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- S&P Indices today announced the results of its S&P Economic Healthcare Indices for the year ending December 2011. Across the board, healthcare costs as measured by annual rates of change went up in the last month of the year. The S&P Healthcare Economic Composite Index indicates that the average per capita cost of healthcare services covered by commercial insurance and Medicare programs increased by 5.28% over the 12-months ending...

HOUSTON, Feb. 14, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Sterling University Housing, the nation's top developer of environmentally friendly off-campus student housing, recently partnered with Northwest Arkansas-based Specialized Real Estate Group to build two student housing developments located within walking distance of the University of Arkansas Campus in Fayetteville. Located along Maple and Lafayette Streets between the UA campus and the Dickson Street Entertainment District, Sterling...

Press Conference To Be Held Wednesday, February 8, 2012 From 10 a.m. - 12 p.m. (Interested party may choose to come earlier at 8:00 a.m.; main issues will be repeated every hour.) CONGRESSIONAL HEARING TO: -- Eliminate Documented HUD Corruption and Personal-Vendetta-Driven Section 8 Housing Choice Voucher Program. -- Release From Being Held Hostage Section 8 Housing and Development Business--New Construction of a Prototype Residential Fourplex Building Encompassing Green-Building...

NEW YORK, Jan. 31, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Data through November 2011, released today by S&P Indices for its S&P/Case-Shiller(1) Home Price Indices, the leading measure of U.S. home prices, showed declines of 1.3% for both the 10- and 20-City Composites in November over October. For a second consecutive month, 19 of the 20 cities covered by the indices also saw home prices decrease. The 10- and 20-City Composites posted annual returns of -3.6% and -3.7% versus November 2010,...

WASHINGTON, Jan. 24, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- U.S. Housing and Urban Development Assistant Secretary Sandra Henriquez will join Mayor Dave Bing to make an announcement regarding the Detroit Housing Commission, on Wednesday, Jan. 25 at 2:25 p.m. The commission has been under federal receivership since 2005. Prior to the announcement, Assistant Secretary Henriquez and Mayor Bing will tour new public housing units at Emerald Springs, formerly Charles Terrace, that were built using HUD...

Beyond Housing: A National Conversation on Child Homelessness and Poverty, New York City, January 19­­­­­­-20 NEW YORK, Jan. 12, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- With the percentage of Americans living in poverty at its highest levels since 1993, Beyond Housing: A National Conversation on Child Homelessness and Poverty presents a timely opportunity to tackle the issue of family poverty and homelessness from multiple angles. The conference, hosted by the Institute for...

SAN JOSE, Calif., Jan. 10, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- ExactBid® today announced a new release of its flagship product, RIMS®, that offers automated UCDP submission of residential appraisals as part of an expanded residential solution set. Other features include: automated appraiser assignment based on bank business rules, UAD and best practices rules checking, ASC and FHA license validation, and complete logging and audit trail tracking. Over the next 3 months, lenders who sell loans to...

NEW YORK, Dec. 27, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Data through October 2011, released today by S&P Indices for its S&P/Case-Shiller[1] Home Price Indices, the leading measure of U.S. home prices, showed decreases of 1.1% and 1.2% for the 10- and 20-City Composites in October vs. September. Nineteen of the 20 cities covered by the indices also saw home prices decrease over the month. The 10- and 20-City Composites posted annual returns of -3.0% and -3.4% versus October 2010,...

- PHOTOS, TOURS, & INTERVIEWS AVAILABLE - LOS ANGELES, Dec. 16, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- As the war in Iraq ends, Westside Residences II officially opens 196 units of long-term, permanent housing for formerly homeless veterans today. The official opening of Westside Residences II., which adds 196 units of affordable housing for formerly homeless veterans, including 48 SROs that share a common living...

BETHESDA, Md., Dec. 14, 2011 /PRNewswire/ --The number of people who experience homelessness is on the decline, according to new Abt Associates' research conducted for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). The study found a 5 percent decrease in the number of homeless people on a single night in January, dropping from 671,888 in 2007 to 636,017 in 2011. Abt, which has conducted this study for about 10 years, analyzed Point-in-Time data on the number of...