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What next for the HUD co-ops?

Mortgage payoffs bring new options

by Steven Moore

posted 3/31/2011

In 1965, Esther and Ben Rubin moved into a new four-bedroom townhouse off Platt south of Packard. What would eventually be the 427-unit Colonial Square Cooperative was still being built, but as a blended family with four teenaged sons, the Rubins needed the space, and the price was right. Ben, a PhD student in biophysics at the U-M, was elected to the co-op's

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