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Housing Outlook: Is This a Recession … or Not?

Pro Builder

Residential building permits dropped by 15,594, or 10.1% A low unemployment rate (3.5%, the lowest rate since the 1960s ), strong household balance sheets, increased consumer spending on services, and still-positive corporate profits, he says, are bolstering and balancing the economy. Other Indicators Point to a Housing Slowdown.

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Opportunities Shine in Community Solar

Green Building Law Update

That is, most consumers of electricity are not, today, permitted to aggregate their purchase of photovoltaic generated electricity with others, except through their electric power utility. Today, most states have laws that preclude “community solar” projects. There are real opportunities in the Wild West business of community solar.

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Vaughan Buckley on Restarting a Former Katerra Factory

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We’re taking that approach with each of the [production] lines for cabinets, countertops, windows, floors, walls, ceilings, and trusses, and each of them really needs to be independently profitable. PB: So the intention is to treat every production line as a separate profit center? Perhaps a better word for that is viable.

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Lean Construction, Payroll and Equipment Tracking

Carol Hagen

WDUs also have a GPS receiver to permit localization of PDCs in the network. Equipment, vehicles, inventory, tools and personnel…basically anything that moves on your jobsite! Now add this to the DataMaxx solution and you have streamlined, accurate time collection for payroll processing, inventory tracking and equipment run-time.

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Top 25 Finalists for Ivory Innovations' Housing Affordability Prize

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This year’s finalists in the Policy & Regulatory Reform category include organizations focused on addressing historically lengthy processes, such as accelerating permitting and connecting LMI individuals to housing opportunities.

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2020 Housing Giants Report: The Magnificent Middle

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of all home closings in 2019, while the market share among the top 20 continued to grow … often by gobbling up well-run and profitable builders occupying the ranks below them. . Based on that performance, bolstered by low interest rates and inventory, the seasonally adjusted annual rate for 2020 was pegged at 1.55

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Builder of the Year Ivory Homes' Innovation Agenda

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1 home builder in building permits and construction value, scaring off every large-volume, multistate production operation that dared enter Ivory’s Wasatch Mountain lair. 1 home builder in terms of building permits and construction value and reaching the milestone, in 2019, of 20,000 homes sold (right). Photos: courtesy Ivory Homes.