Residential Tuesday 2007.0327

Tue Mar 27 14:04:38 PST 2007

Dear Designers, Builders, and Dwellers,

Residential Tuesday brings you top housing news and analysis 
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ArchitectureWeek.  

	On observing Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke minimize
	the likely economic impact of today's deepening housing
	market problems, one has to wonder what, if anything, might
	the Federal Reserve have learnt from the bursting of the
	dot-com bubble in 2001. At that time, too, the Fed
	downplayed the economic consequences of a collapsing asset
	market. And it did so only to find itself, a few months
	later, in the awkward position of having to aggressively cut
	interest rates to prevent the dot-com crash from
	precipitating a deep economic recession.

Soft Pedaling the Housing Market Blues - Washington Post, 2007.0325
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/25/AR2007032501027.html

	Duffy and Johnson warned, however, that California's
	new-home market may soon feel the effects of the meltdown in
	the sub-prime mortgage market, which surfaced in the last 30
	to 60 days. Many first-time new-home buyers, especially
	those with no down payment and with weak credit histories,
	have relied on high-cost sub-prime mortgages to become
	homeowners.

	But with banks recently toughening their rules for such
	borrowers, many analysts see the demand for new homes
	weakening in the near term, prolonging the nation's housing
	slump.

Stocks Decline over Record-Low Home Sales - Los Angeles Times, 2007.0327
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-homes27mar27,0,2662782.story?coll=la-home-headlines

Residential Design and Building News
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Stocks Decline over Record-Low Home Sales - Los Angeles Times, 2007.0327
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-homes27mar27,0,2662782.story?coll=la-home-headlines

Bid to Share the Rot - Stuff, 2007.0327
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/sundaystartimes/auckland/4006229a6016.html

Neighbor Friendly - Dallas Morning News, 2007.0326
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/ent/stories/DN-urban_0326gl.ART0.State.Edition1.44b8b9a.html

Housing Expected to Drag Down 2007 Cement Consumption - Portland Cement Association, 2007.0326
http://www.pr-inside.com/housing-expected-to-drag-down-r76433.htm

Subprime Fallout: Worst yet to Come - National Post, 2007.0326
http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/financialpost/story.html?id=c26d6e2a-e2ea-4be7-945e-e70f521f6f6c&k=17556

A Nasty Surprise on New Home Sales - BusinessWeek, 2007.0326
http://www.businessweek.com/investor/content/mar2007/pi20070326_216707.htm

Community or Social Housing - Malta Independent, 2007.0326
http://www.independent.com.mt/news.asp?newsitemid=48479

The Manhattanization of Boston - Boston Globe, 2007.0325
http://www.boston.com/news/globe/magazine/articles/2007/03/25/the_manhattanization_of_boston/

Keeping the Dream Alive - San Diego Union-Tribune, 2007.0325
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/metro/20070325-9999-lz1n25dream.html

The Danger in the Fine Print - New York Times, 2007.0325
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/25/realestate/25cov.html?ref=realestate

Northeast Los Angeles: Ready for a Close-Up - New York Times, 2007.0325
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/25/realestate/25nati.html?ref=realestate

'Mansion' Hard to Define, but House Sizes Are Growing - Tennessean, 2007.0325
http://www.tennessean.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070325/COUNTY090101/703250352/1352/COUNTY09

Getting in on Affordable Housing Requires Work - San Francisco Chronicle, 2007.0325
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/03/25/BUGQ2OQGIK1.DTL

Limiting Pollutants, Moisture Crucial to Health of House - Ashville Citizen-Times, 2007.0325
http://www.citizen-times.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=200770324063

A Developer Picks Up Where Others Leave Off - New York Times, 2007.0325
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/25/realestate/commercial/25sqft.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

Public, Subsidized Housing Populations Older, Disabled - MSN, 2007.0324
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17765394/

Scams Can Abound in Construction - Picayune Item, 2007.0324
http://www.picayuneitem.com/features/local_story_083193242.html?keyword=secondarystory

Australia's Housing Market - Asia Property Report, 2007.0322
http://www.property-report.com/apr_op_archives.php?id=67&date=7322

Teaching Climate - ArchitectureWeek, 2007.0314
http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0314/index.html

Product News - 	BluWood - environmentally safer treated lumber
     http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0314/products_update.html

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	When designing an unheated facility the anticipated
	ambient temperature can influence your choice of lamp
	types. What is the minimum start-up temperature for a
	standard compact fluorescent?
     http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0314/quiz.html

Architecture Answer - for last issue's quiz...
	Ground rupture, ground shaking, and differential
	subsidence are three of the four main causes of
	foundation failure due to a seismic event. What is the fourth?
     http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0314/answer.html

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     http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0314/contents.html

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