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Immigration to Germany drove the country's population up slightly in 2023, according to new estimates from the Federal Statistical Office released on Thursday. Germany, the most populous country in the European Union, had a population of about 84.7 million people at the end of last year, an increase of about 300,000 people, according to the agency's updated estimates. Net migration was again the sole driver of population growth in Germany in 2023, according to the agency. Without immigration, the country's population would have shrunk every year since at least 1990. "As in all years since Germ...
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New York (AFP) - US home ownership jumped at an historic rate in 2020, but a racial gap widened as more Black households were priced out, according to a report released Wednesday. Low interest rates helped fuel a 1.3 percent rise in home ownership in 2020, the biggest annual increase since the US Census Bureau began tracking the data in 1960, according to a report by the National Association of Realtors (NAR). But it showed the persistence of a racial ownership gap in the United States that the report says has actually widened as home prices have soared. Home ownership of Black Americans was 4...
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Washington (AFP) - The Covid-19 pandemic has changed the nature of homebuying in the United States, but one constant is that Black Americans do not have the same access to a home of their own. Black purchasers made up just six percent of the total homebuyers this year -- a figure that has changed little over the past two decades, a National Association of Realtors (NAR) report released Thursday said. Pandemic dynamics have allowed many Americans to get caught up on student loans and build savings, since spending opportunities like travel and eating in restaurants were off limits. As remote wo...
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