Residential Tuesday 2007.0612

Tue Jun 12 16:31:53 PDT 2007

Dear Designers, Builders, and Dwellers,

Residential Tuesday brings you top housing news and analysis 
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Affordability dominates housing news in the United States and United Kingdom this week.  In a recent report, Harvard University's Joint Center for Housing Studies notes that despite ongoing price corrections, an increasing number of U.S. households are struggling to afford homes.

	"The length and depth of the current correction will depend
	on the course of employment growth and interest rates, as
	well as the speed with which builders pare down excess
	supply.  But the longer-term outlook for housing is more
	upbeat... Together with the enormous increase in household
	wealth over the past 20 years, healthy income growth will
	help propel residential spending to new heights.  

	"But housing affordability remains a pervasive problem. In
	just one year, the number of households with housing cost
	burdens in excess of 30 percent of income climbed by 2.3
	million, hitting a record 37.3 million in 2005."

	The State of the Nation's Housing 2007 - JCHS, 2007.0611 (in PDF)		
	http://www.jchs.harvard.edu/publications/markets/son2007/index.htm

Further coverage of the JCHS report:

Home Costs Stay Beyond Reach of Many - Boston Globe, 2007.0611
http://www.boston.com/business/globe/articles/2007/06/11/home_costs_stay_beyond_reach_of_many/?p1=MEWell_Pos3

Struggling Housing Market Has 'Turned the Corner' - Boston Herald, 2007.0611
http://business.bostonherald.com/realestateNews/view.bg?articleid=1005889&srvc=biz

Residential Design and Building News
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Canadian Home Building Fell Sharply in April - Axcess News, 2007.0612
http://www.axcessnews.com/index.php/articles/show/id/11212

Ulster's Housing at 'Crisis Point' - Belfast Telegraph, 2007.0612
http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/local-national/article2647301.ece

Affordable Housing Bill Passes - Baltimore Sun, 2007.0612
http://www.baltimoresun.com/business/realestate/bal-te.md.ci.housing12jun12,0,7896832.story?coll=bal-realestate-headlines-1

Bill Targets Farmworker Housing - News & Observer, 2007.0612
http://www.newsobserver.com/politics/politicians/legislature/story/600745.html

Affordable Housing Project Eyed - Clarion Ledger, 2007.0611
http://www.clarionledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070611/NEWS/706110340/1001

Playing House - Colorado Daily News, 2007.0611
http://www.coloradodaily.com/articles/2007/06/11/news/c_u_and_boulder/news1.txt

It's a Tight Squeeze for Families in Home Crisis - Scotsman Online, 2007.0611
http://news.scotsman.com/edinburgh.cfm?id=912092007

Would-Be Home Buyers Hesitate - San Francisco Chronicle, 2007.0611
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/06/11/MNGNUQD1PM1.DTL

Boost to Affordable Housing - Telegraph, 2007.0611
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/main.jhtml?xml=/money/2007/06/10/cnhousing110.xml

Hub Must Have Its Public Housing in Order - Boston Herald, 2007.0611
http://news.bostonherald.com/editorial/view.bg?articleid=1005806

Build on the Green Belt, and Build Now - U.K. Times, 2007.0610
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/minette_marrin/article1909826.ece

'McMansions' Continue to Proliferate - Salt Lake Tribune, 2007.0610
http://origin.sltrib.com/ci_6106285

Gardens Vanish under 28,000 Homes - Telegraph, 2007.0609
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?xml=/earth/2007/06/09/eagardens109.xml

An Action Plan for Affordable Housing - World Changing (blog), 2007.0609
http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/006856.html

Lost Homes Haunt Families - Charlotte Observer, 2007.0609
http://www.charlotte.com/109/story/153857.html

Container City in London - Inhabitat (blog), 2007.0608
http://www.inhabitat.com/2007/06/08/prefab-friday-container-city/

Built for Stargazing - New York Times, 2007.0608
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/08/travel/escapes/08dark.html?ref=realestate

Bernanke: Home Building Slump to Drag on Growth - The Charlotte Observer, 2007.0606
http://www.charlotte.com/business/story/149053.html

Urban Mayors Offer Housing Plan - Star-Ledger, 2007.0606
http://www.nj.com/statehouse/ledger/index.ssf?/base/news-0/1181110611185750.xml&coll=1

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