Penn South and Pruitt-Igoe, Starkly Different Housing Tales

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Penn South, a housing development in Chelsea, and the ill-fated Pruitt-Igoe project in St. Louis, shared a type of housing stock but little else.

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Housing benefit cap: can you live on 62p a day? | Tim Leunig

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The housing benefit cap will mainly hit stable families on low incomes. Surely this can't be what George Osborne wanted Imagine two sets of people, both renting from private landlords.

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Gingrich Questions Wall Street Bailout as Florida Gets Attention

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Newt Gingrich tried to reframe his assault on Mitt Romney’s investment background amid calls from Republican commentators, rivals in the presidential race and business leaders to tone down his attacks as both men cast an eye on Florida, the biggest state with a primary this month.

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