Showing posts with label downturn. Show all posts
Showing posts with label downturn. Show all posts

Tuesday, July 5, 2011

Joburg inner city tenants turn into buyers : Property News from .

Joburg inner city tenants turn into buyers

As reported in the Financial Mail recently, younger executives, academics and creatives are once again flocking into Joburg's CBD to operate and play.

The fall in crime levels and the impending opening of the Gautrain Park Station widened the setting for masses to go and go in the area.

Wednesday, October 6, 2010

Suburbs take hit as US poverty climbs in downturn

WASHINGTON - Assaulted by the downturn, America`s suburbs are heading the brunt of poverty among persons of good age that has climbed to its highest point in about a half century, making strains on dwindling safety-net programs focusing largely on the inner-city poor.

A couple of analyses by the nonprofit Brookings Institution paint a bleak monetary picture for the 100 largest metropolitan areas over the preceding ten and in the upcoming years, when the U.