Word: williamses
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It's hard to drive down a residential street in Miami Gardens, Fla., and not see two, three, four houses in foreclosure. Some have been on the auction block since last year; they are once handsome, pastel-colored ranch houses that are now surrounded by waist-high weeds or boarded...
But the city of 110,000 people just north of Miami is staring at another figure today: a 13% home-foreclosure rate. That's the second highest in Florida, a state that now has the nation's highest rate of homes - 23% - either in foreclosure or delinquent on mortgage payments...
For that reason, Williams believes those lenders need to step up and do more to help struggling local homeowners revise their loans and hang on to their houses - and he wants to give his frustrations some legal teeth. Williams has proposed a city ordinance that could penalize banks that fail...
'This time, I'm saving it for retirement.' EDWARD WILLIAMS, after winning a $900,000 jackpot in the Kansas Super Cash lottery on Aug. 5; last September, the 47-year-old Wichita, Kans., native won $75,000 after buying a $10 scratch ticket
Yet such studies insistently conclude that, having controlled for socioeconomics, there must be some unknown biological factor (as opposed to some unknown social or cultural factor) at play, says David Williams, a Harvard professor of public health and African American studies. "The biology is a fall-back black box that...