It highlights the importance of prepurchase counseling and other support services, including foreclosure prevention. 2 Issue 1 New Jersey stimulated redevelopment in its 16 central cities by streamlining the housing code for rehabilitation of existing structures. Cities and urban places, in spite of our acceptance of them as an inevitable consequence of human life, are in the eyes of history a comparatively recent social invention, having existed a scant 7,000 to 9,000 years. Intel, the world s largest computer chip manufacturer, agreed to the deal with the Portland area regional government in exchange for property tax breaks over the next 15 years. Portland has been on the cutting edge of the anti-sprawl movement since it adopted urban growth controls more than 25 years ago.
Whites are still substantially more likely than minorities to own a home in America.