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President shifts focus to renting, not owning

Using $4.25b to build affordable housing

By Joseph Williams
Globe Staff / August 16, 2009

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WASHINGTON - The Obama administration, in a major shift on housing policy, is abandoning George W. Bush’s vision of creating an “ownership society’’ and instead plans to pump $4.25 billion of economic stimulus money into creating tens of thousands of federally subsidized rental units in American cities. (Full article: 999 words)

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