Anonymous ID: d15976 April 25, 2019, 4:32 p.m. No.6314699   🗄️.is đź”—kun   >>4727

First buy in a REIT I have seen

 

What Is a Real Estate Investment Trust?

 

Congress established real estate investment trusts (REITs) in 1960 as an amendment to the Cigar Excise Tax Extension of 1960. The provision allows individual investors to buy shares in commercial real estate portfolios that receive income from a variety of properties. Properties included in a REIT portfolio may include apartment complexes, data centers, health care facilities, hotels, infrastructure—in the form of fiber cables, cell towers, and energy pipelines—office buildings, retail centers, self-storage, timberland, and warehouses.

 

Most REITs specialize in a specific real estate sector, focusing their time, energy, and funding on that particular segment of the entire real estate horizon. However, diversified and specialty REITs often hold different types of properties in their portfolios.

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/r/reit.asp

 

 

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Anonymous ID: d15976 April 25, 2019, 4:41 p.m. No.6314789   🗄️.is đź”—kun

U.S. judge blocks Trump's cutoff of family planning subsidies: plaintiffs

 

(Reuters) - A federal judge in Washington state on Thursday blocked a Trump administration cutoff of U.S. subsidies for poor women obtaining birth control from Planned Parenthood and other clinics that offer abortion services or information to patients, according to the state attorney general.

The preliminary injunction bars enforcement nationwide of a policy due to go into effect on May 3 over the vehement objections of abortion supporters, who have decried it as a “gag rule” that would prevent doctors from doing their jobs.

 

“Today’s ruling ensures that clinics across the nation can remain open and continue to provide quality, unbiased healthcare to women,” Washington state Attorney General Bob Ferguson said in a statement announcing the decision.

 

Washington state was a named plaintiff in the court challenge, along with the National Family Planning and Reproductive Health Association.

 

The ruling by U.S. District Judge Stanley Bastian in Yakima, Washington, capped a hearing in which oral arguments were presented by each side.

 

A federal judge in Oregon earlier this week said he intended to grant a preliminary injunction in a similar but separate court case brought there by Oregon, 19 other states and the District of Columbia.

 

Yet another lawsuit challenging the new restrictions on the federal government’s Title X funding for reproductive healthcare and family planning services is pending in Maine.

 

The restrictions are aimed at fulfilling President Donald Trump’s campaign pledge to end federal support for Planned Parenthood, an organization that provides abortions and other health services for women under Title X.

 

Congress appropriated $286 million in Title X grants in 2017 to Planned Parenthood and other health centers to provide birth control, screening for diseases and other reproductive health and counseling to low-income women.

 

The funding is already prohibited from being used for abortions, but abortion opponents have long complained that the money in effect subsidizes Planned Parenthood as a whole.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-abortion/u-s-judge-blocks-trumps-cutoff-of-family-planning-subsidies-plaintiffs-idUSKCN1S12SC