Is a housing shortage coming? If shrugging off the worst housing crash since the Great Depression, it is not hard enough, you have to brazen for a housing shortage. Just 672,000 new homes were started in April, less than half the long-term run rate needed to meet the nation’s natural population growth. “It is ironic,… Read More
Home Owners Tax Credit News Update
January 20, 2010 By Leave a Comment
As you know, The original $8000 tax credit was just good for first-time home buyers and was slated to end on Nov. 30. But Congress extended the credit to include contracts signed by April 30 and closed by June 30. It also made a refund of up to $6,500 available to existing homeowners looking to… Read More
Joseph Eichler, and Bob Ashen the Men Behind California Modern «
September 4, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Eichler, unlike most builders at the time, established a non-discrimination policy and offered homes for sale to anyone of any religion or race. In 1958, he resigned from the National Association of Home Builders when they refused to support … he absolutely commanded attention — so much so people barely noticed his lifelong architectural partner and best friend, Steve Allen, even though Allen was a large man and Anshen short and thin, weighing in at roughly 125 pounds . …
