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  2. Where Cities Are Practically Giving Away Abandoned Homes - AOL

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    The year-old program gives low-to-moderate income homebuyers up to $10,000 toward down payments and closing costs on purchases of vacant homes. The maximum annual household income must be $72,100 ...

  3. Homestead Acts - Wikipedia

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    In all, more than 160 million acres (650 thousand km 2; 250 thousand sq mi) of public land, or nearly 10 percent of the total area of the United States, were given away free to 1.6 million homesteaders; most of the homesteads were west of the Mississippi River.

  4. Free land? How about a free house? Kansas town tries a ... - AOL

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    Free land, costly homes. The idea stretches back to the Homestead Act of 1862: Spur economic growth in rural America by giving away free land to those who will make good use of it.

  5. Black land loss in the United States - Wikipedia

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    In all, more than 160 million acres (650,000 km 2; 250,000 sq mi) of public land, or nearly 10 percent of the total area of the United States was given away free to 1.6 million homesteaders. [1] However, until the United States abolished slavery in 1865 and the passage of the 14th amendment in 1868, enslaved and free Blacks could not benefit ...

  6. Klushuis - Wikipedia

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    In the Spangen district of the municipality of Rotterdam, the Wallisblok was a municipal project in which houses were given away 'for free'. [1] This project won the Job Dura Prize in 2006. Kleiburg, Amsterdam Zuidoost

  7. 32 Free Things That Are Only a Click Away - AOL

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    Rather than throwing these items away, the owners give away items -- such as free baby stuff or outdoor furniture -- to the general public. Scope the things you should never buy new to get ideas.

  8. Subsidized housing in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Permanent, federally funded housing came into being in the United States as a part of Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal. Title II, Section 202 of the National Industrial Recovery Act, passed June 16, 1933, directed the Public Works Administration (PWA) to develop a program for the "construction, reconstruction, alteration, or repair under public regulation or control of low-cost housing and slum ...

  9. How Mark Zuckerberg Should Give Away $45 Billion - The ...

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    You don't give away that much money without changing the places and institutions and people you give it to, sometimes for the worse. Zuckerberg should already know this. In 2010, he donated $100 million to the Newark Public Schools on a promise from Cory Booker that he could, according to Dale Russakoff's The Prize , "flip a whole city."