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Date Added: April 27, 2008 02:16:02 PM
| Could widespread designations of entire ZIP codes, metropolitan areas -- even entire states -- as ''declining markets,'' hinder a real estate recovery and hurt minority groups and moderate-income buyers disproportionately? Growing ranks of critics say the answer is yes.

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