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Gardening in a Sand Lot in West Virginia - What can you do with an unused sand lot at a senior housing project? One choice would be to green things up a bit and turn it into a garden. At the Greenbrier Senior Housing Complex in Rupert, West Virginia they did just that and it has been a great success.
Donovan awards $16.5 million to jump-start affordable housing construction in West Virginia - Recovery Act funding to stimulate the production of affordable units stalled by recession
HUD announces $39 million for affordable housing and community development in West Virginia
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Making Home Affordable
A recent expansion of the Making Home Affordable program now allows borrowers who are current but up to 125 percent underwater on their mortgage, and have mortgages currently owned or guaranteed by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to refinance those loans according to the terms of the Home Affordable Refinance program established earlier this year.
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