Support for helping people in financial distress over housing is higher than support for helping those without a job for many months, according to a New York Times/CBS News poll released yesterday.
An article by David Streitfeld and Megan Thee-Brenan in today's edition of the newspaper said that 45 percent of the respondents say the government should be doing more to improve the housing market and 53 percent said the government should help those having trouble paying their mortgages with direct financial assistance and almost no one favors discontinued the mortgage tax deduction.
Only 36 percent of those polled approve of what Mr. Obama has done, while 45 percent disapprove, the article said.
The nationwide telephone poll as conducted June 24-28 with 979 adults and has a margin of error of plus or minus three percentage points for all adults, the article said.
The poll found that 55 percent of the respondents found that owning a home is very important part of the American Dream and that 49 percent said that buying a home these days is generally a safe investment and that 63 percent said that it is very important for the federal government to continue the home mortgage interest deduction.
An article by David Streitfeld and Megan Thee-Brenan in today's edition of the newspaper said that 45 percent of the respondents say the government should be doing more to improve the housing market and 53 percent said the government should help those having trouble paying their mortgages with direct financial assistance and almost no one favors discontinued the mortgage tax deduction.
Only 36 percent of those polled approve of what Mr. Obama has done, while 45 percent disapprove, the article said.
The nationwide telephone poll as conducted June 24-28 with 979 adults and has a margin of error of plus or minus three percentage points for all adults, the article said.
The poll found that 55 percent of the respondents found that owning a home is very important part of the American Dream and that 49 percent said that buying a home these days is generally a safe investment and that 63 percent said that it is very important for the federal government to continue the home mortgage interest deduction.
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Carter Horsley
Since 1997, Carter B. Horsley has been the editorial director of CityRealty. He began his journalistic career at The New York Times in 1961 where he spent 26 years as a reporter specializing in real estate & architectural news. In 1987, he became the architecture critic and real estate editor of The New York Post.
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