Residential Tuesday 2007.0724

Tue Jul 24 11:22:34 PDT 2007

Dear Designers, Builders, and Dwellers,

Residential Tuesday brings you top housing news and analysis every week in this free email newsletter from the editors of ArchitectureWeek. 

This week, we highlight two stories, from the United States and United Kingdom. The U.S. Commerce Department last week released its monthly report which indicates that the ongoing housing slump may also be affecting other sectors of the U.S. economy:

	The U.S. housing market continued to stumble in June,
	cooling the economy and contributing to the smallest
	increase in consumer prices in five months.

	Building permits dropped to an annual pace of 1.406 million
	last month, the lowest in a decade, even as builders started
	work on more homes, the Commerce Department said today in
	Washington. Americans paid 0.2 percent more for goods and
	services, following a 0.7 percent increase in prices in May,
	the Labor Department said.

	The reports bear out Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S.
	Bernanke's forecast to Congress today that the decline in
	residential construction will continue to "weigh" on growth.
	He also projected inflation will continue to recede.

	Housing in Slump, Consumer Prices Cool - Chicago Tribune, 2007.0718
	http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/chi-070718economy-story,0,3101021.story?coll=chi-bizfront-hed

And flooding continues in England, following heavy weekend rains in the south and east of the country. As the Thames rose, the UK government evacuated the stranded and warned that hundreds of thousands of Britons may be without drinking water. Further flood coverage:

	Humanitarian Crisis as Thousands Face New Evacuation Alert - Daily Mail, 2007.0723
	http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=470215&in_page_id=1770&ct=5

	Floods Strike Britain; Thames Rising - Washington Post, 2007.0723
	http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07/23/AR2007072301365.html

	Insurance Firms Warn on Flood Cover - Independent Digital, 2007.0724
	http://news.independent.co.uk/business/news/article2795711.ece

	Flood Risk from Home Building Drive - Guardian Unlimited, 2007.0722
	http://www.guardian.co.uk/uklatest/story/0,,-6797539,00.html

	Insurers Begin to Count Cost of Floods - Financial Times, 2007.0722
	http://www.ft.com/cms/s/95dc7b76-3885-11dc-bca9-0000779fd2ac.html

	An Inch of Rain an Hour - Mirror, 2007.0721
	http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/topstories/2007/07/21/an-inch-of-rain-an-hour-89520-19489696/

Residential Design and Building News
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Design Feat That's Down to Earth - Sydney Morning Herald, 2007.0724
http://www.smh.com.au/news/environment/design-feat-thats-down-to-earth/2007/07/23/1185043033380.html

Ministers May Seize Land for Home Building - The Times (London), 2007.0723
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article2120776.ece

Australian Home Building Slows, Lags Behind Demand, BIS Says - Bloomberg, 2007.0723
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601081&sid=aeQNkFlv4NSU&refer=australia

Hurricanes on Demand at Miami Building Lab - Sarasota Herald-Tribune, 2007.0723
http://www.heraldtribune.com/article/20070723/NEWS/707230408

Strike Could Cost Housing Developers $30,000 Per Day - The Province, 2007.0723
http://www.canada.com/theprovince/news/story.html?id=7d2b13a3-94f7-4120-9bf8-e45a4fa534df

Housing Aid Extended for Displaced Residents - Houston Chronicle, 2007.0723
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/headline/metro/4992300.html

It Takes a Village - Affordable Housing Finance, 2007.0722
http://www.housingfinance.com/ahf/articles/2007/aug/EASTLAKE0807.htm

Yes, There Is a Place Named 'Real Good' - New York Times, 2007.0722
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/22/realestate/22livi.html?ref=realestate

The Long Road to Affordable Housing - New York Times, 2007.0722
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/22/realestate/22lizo.html?ref=realestate

Housing Crunch a Political Time Bomb - The Age (Australia), 2007.0721
http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/housing-crunch-a-political-time-bomb/2007/07/21/1184560109138.html

Land 'No Cure for Housing Crisis' - BBC News, 2007.0721
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/6909621.stm

Note from New Orleans - ArchitectureWeek, 2007.0718
http://www.architectureweek.com/2007/0718/culture_1-1.html

No Bounce in Sight for U.S. Home Builders - The Globe and Mail, 2007.0717
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20070717.RBCA17/TPStory/Business

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