More Hawaii residents turning to homeownership - 2003-01-31
Greater number of Hawaii residents are becoming homeowners, according to a 2003 Hawaii Housing Policy Study by SMS Research.

The report, commissioned by a consortium of state, county and private housing agencies -- found that fewer residents are living in overcrowded, substandard units. At the same time, housing prices increased, due to falling mortgage interest rates, lack of housing construction and an increase of sales to nonresidents.
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Bush's impossible budgetary math logic - 2003-01-31
The unreal quality of the Bush administration's economic program attained new heights last week. ''I believe deficits do matter,'' Vice President Dick Cheney declared at a summit meeting of skeptical world leaders in Davos, Switzerland.

If -- actually, when -- the average mortgage interest rate goes up from 6 percent to 7 percent, a family taking out a 30-year mortgage for $250,000 will owe another $2,000 a year to the lender.
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