ArchWeek Residential 2009.0930

Wed Sep 30 13:06:47 PDT 2009

Dear Designers, Builders, and Dwellers,

ArchWeek Residential brings you housing news and analysis weekly 
from the editors of ArchitectureWeek.

Yes, today's dual large earthquakes and attendant tsunamis _are_ 
a residential design and building issue, and terrifyingly real.

To some extent that depends on your neighborhood.  But the issues
of disasters - from physical devastation to shifting patterns of
investment, to real emotional trauma - are less geographically
limited than many may prefer to think.

These particular strikes on our vulnerable human habitations will
prove to have death tolls sadly far, far higher than early accounts 
indicate:

	Devastation from two earthquakes thousands of miles apart spread
	throughout Southeast Asia and the South Pacific on Wednesday,
	leaving death, injuries and panic in their wake from Indonesia's
	western coast to the far-flung islands of Samoa and American
	Samoa.

	Footage of affected areas in American and Western Samoa in the
	Pacific, where tsunamis have killed scores, officials said.

	On the island of Sumatra in Indonesia, a 7.6 quake struck
	Wednesday evening just 30 miles off the coast of the city of
	Padang, killing at least 75 people and trapping thousands in
	buildings. Indonesian television stations showed images of
	flattened hospitals, hotels and houses, burning cars, and
	terrified residents running in the center of the city. Power and
	telecommunications were cut, complicating rescue efforts when
	night fell.

	A day earlier in the Samoans, an underwater 8.0 quake produced a
	tsunami that struck after dawn, causing at least 89 deaths and
	destroying villages throughout the islands.

	The epicenters of the quakes were located about 6,000 miles
	apart in an unsettled region and immediately brought back vivid
	reminders of the horrific earthquake-tsunami disaster that
	ravaged South and Southeast Asia nearly five years ago, killing
	hundreds of thousands of people.

Two Powerful Earthquakes Leave Islands Reeling
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/01/world/asia/01pacific.html

Discuss online:
http://arch.DesignCommunity.com/viewtopic.php?t=30891

Housing developments made today, and in the coming years, are
going to face payback challenges that include ever-increasing 
background costs.  We'll do well to plan intelligently for it.

Residential Design and Building News
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Housing Prices Up, but Consumer Confidence Down Again - Washington Post, 2009.0930
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/09/29/AR2009092903690.html

More Debris Falls in Calgary; Charges Laid in Toddler Death - Daily Commerical News, 2009.0930
http://www.dcnonl.com/tt/35530

US Mortgage Rates Stay at May Low - Freddie - Reuters, 2009.0929
http://www.reuters.com/article/bondsNews/idUSN2914923820090929

New Zealand August Home-Building Approvals Rise 1.7% - Bloomberg, 2009.0929
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601080&sid=a5N1VjfwcxOY

Private Sector: Housing Recovery Vital to Ending the Recession - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 2009.0929
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09272/1001515-432.stm

Small Mortgage Banks Band Together - Wall Street Journal, 2009.0928
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125409581012245013.html

Debris Fall at Calgary Fatal Work Accident Site 'Inexcusable' - Calgary Herald, 2009.0928
http://www.calgaryherald.com/news/Debris+fall+Calgary+fatal+work+accident+site+inexcusable/2041220/story.html

Building Slump Leaves Wolseley with #1.17bn Loss - Guardian Unlimited, 2009.0928
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2009/sep/28/wolseley-construction-losses

KB Home Posts Smaller 3Q Loss as Sales Increase - Associated Press, 2009.0926
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5g_C4_LH58L7tSOrEqKte6h8ADxegD9AUIM7G0

New Home Sales Lose Momentum in August - Business Week, 2009.0925
http://www.businessweek.com/the_thread/hotproperty/archives/2009/09/new_home_sales_4.html

Goods Orders, New-Home Sales in U.S. Probably Rose Last Month - Bloomberg, 2009.0925
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aiedyEnH3LKs

Borrowers Rush in as Mortgage Rates Slip Below 5% - Los Angeles Times, 2009.0925
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-mortgage-rates25-2009sep25,0,7384998.story

Table of Data on Existing US Home Sales - Wall Street Journal, 2009.0924
http://online.wsj.com/article/BT-CO-20090924-707733.html

Oil Falls to a 8-Week Low as Existing U.S. Home Sales Drop - Bloomberg, 2009.0924
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=axwxfH27b8WE

Canada's Housing Starts Rise in August - Daily Commercial News and Construction Record, 2009.0924
http://dcnonl.com/article/id35441

Economists React: Home Resales Drop 'Unpleasant Surprise' - Wall Street Journal, 2009.0924
http://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2009/09/24/economists-react-home-resales-drop-unpleasant-surprise/

Sales of Existing U.S. Homes Probably Climbed as Prices Fell - Bloomberg, 2009.0924
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601103&sid=aPbcNBVIRKZk

A Place Fit for the Boss - New York Times, 2009.0924
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/24/garden/24cheap.html

Insurers Seek Looser Rules on Home Mortgage Holdings - Bloomberg, 2009.0923
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601103&sid=aF_dOxCMOJjM

Will There Soon Be Another Chapter 11 Tort Claim Trust for Chinese Drywall Claims Against an Insolvent Builder? GlobalTort (blog), 2009.0923
http://www.globaltort.com/2009/09/will-there-soon-be-another-chapter-11.html

Flood Dangers Not over for Georgia - CNN, 2009.0922
http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/weather/09/22/southeast.flooding/index.html?iref=mpstoryview

The Plan: Resize and Reorient - New York Times, 2009.0920
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/20/realestate/20posting.html
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