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Colorado Lawmakers Push for Updated Zoning Regulations to Combat Statewide Housing Crisis

Pro Builder

The need is mounting: New housing builds have cratered since the 2008 financial crisis, according to analyses by the Common Sense Institute and the Colorado Housing Affordability Project, as migration into the state and prices have surged. Colorado needs to build tens of thousands of new units each year to just keep the market stable.

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Adjustable-Rate Mortgages Are on the Rise Once Again—Here’s What That Means for Today’s Homebuyers

Pro Builder

Adjustable-rate mortgages (ARMs) played a significant role in the Great Recession of 2008, which is why a rising share of adjustable-rate mortgage applications in 2022 raised some eyebrows amid talks of a housing downturn. Lending practices have been reformed after hard lessons learned in 2008.

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A Housing Slowdown Is Underway, but This Downturn Is Nothing Like the Last One, Experts Say

Pro Builder

The housing market is finally cooling off after a mid-pandemic hot stretch, but today's market is much more stable than the bubble and bust buying landscape of 2008.

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Federal Government Proposes Greenhouse Gas Disclosures from Certain Vendors

Green Building Law Update

The Department of Defense, General Services Administration, and National Aeronautics and Space Administration are proposing to amend the Federal Acquisition Regulation which will require select government vendors, from landlords to defense contractors, to indicate if and where they publicly disclose greenhouse gas emissions.

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Federal Government Proposes Greenhouse Gas Disclosures from Certain Vendors

Green Building Law Update

The Department of Defense, General Services Administration, and National Aeronautics and Space Administration are proposing to amend the Federal Acquisition Regulation which will require select government vendors, from landlords to defense contractors, to indicate if and where they publicly disclose greenhouse gas emissions.

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Solutions to Housing Affordability

Pro Builder

One side was summarized by “Deregulate construction, deregulate banking, deregulate oil exploration, freeze environmental regulations, and stop raising taxes,” while the opposite end of the spectrum can be characterized by “Housing [that] enjoys government preference [if sold] only to urban, low-income families.”.

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No timeline to start I2P2, Michaels says

FDR Safety

OSHA has implemented a number of programs over the last five years that have increased regulation and enforcement, but when it comes to the agency’s top priority, OSHA Administrator David Michaels is not providing a timeline. There are people who believe we regulate too much.”.

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