Court Expands Protection for New-Home Buyers
This past November, the Fourth Court of Appeals in San Antonio ruled that Centex Homes cannot enforce the protion of its contracts requiring buyers to waive the guarantee that their new homes are 'habitable' and made with 'good and workmanlike construc...
Sunny Conditions Forecasted
The 2000 forecase for the housing industry should look something like this: overall, mostly sunny with clean conditions expected across the country with the presence of a stationary high front that extends from the nation's capital.
Shelter or Home: Which Builder Are You?
While all of us may be tiring of Millennium Fever, the fact is all the ballyhoo can cover important grist for the collective mill of our industry.
Affordable Solutions to Inner-City Housing Woes
Engaging examples of manufactured homes have popped up on previously abandoned sites in five urban communities thanks to a forward-thinking programmed called the Urban Design Demonstration Design Program, sponsored by the Manufactured Housing Institute...
Achievers
Achieve: to carry out successfully; to get or attain as a result of exertion; to attain a desired end or aim.
Willamette Industries Receives Certification for Sustainable Forestry Practices
Willamette Industries Inc. has become the first major forest products company to receive third-party certification that its forest management practices are in compliance with standards of the American Forest & Paper Association's Sustainable Forestry ....
Study Says Growth Control a Recipe for Unaffordable Housing
A new study by the Reason Public Policy Institute points to growth control policies--specific urban growth boundaries--as having a detrimental impact on housing supply and affordability.
