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Kevin Site Admin Joined: 13 Apr 2004 Posts: 1349 Location: Eugene, Oregon	Posted: Wed Jun 03, 2009 4:26 pm    Post subject: ArchWeek Residential 2009.0603 Dear Designers, Builders, and Dwellers, ArchWeek Residential brings you housing news and analysis weekly from the editors of ArchitectureWeek. Ed Mazria of Architecture 2030 writes for us on how lifting the housing market can be a key strategy for making the green/jobs connection real. Ed's enthusiastic but he's also hard-nosed and down-to-earth, so don't knock it until you've tried it: Quote: What if there were a way for states, cities, and counties to leverage each dollar of federal stimulus money they spend to generate $14 of private spending, create 14 times the number of jobs, reimburse the federal government $3, and get a dollar back to boot? And what if that economic solution could also help us tackle climate change by constructively attacking building-related carbon emissions? Well, there is a way, and we call it the "14x Stimulus" plan. In order to capture the job-creation and private-spending potential of the private building sector, this plan encourages households off the sidelines and into the renovation and home-buying market. Green Stimulus Multiplication - ArchitectureWeek, 2009.0527 http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2009/0527/environment_1-1.html Discuss online: http://www.designcommunity.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=25141 Residential Design and Building News ------------------------------------ Toll Brothers Loss Narrows as Land Writedowns Decline - Bloomberg, 2009.0603 http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601103&sid=ax6VxvV22p_8&refer=us Homebuilders Dabble in Spec - Wall Street Journal, 2009.0603 http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124404033500281397.html Prince Albert Couple Building Home with Recycled Junk - Leader-Post, 2009.0602 http://www.leaderpost.com/Prince+Albert+couple+building+home+with+recycled+junk/1653422/story.html Home Builders' Losses Expected to Narrow - Wall Street Journal, 2009.0601 http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124382305839771139.html?mod=googlenews_wsj New Zealand April Home-Building Approvals Rise 11.2 Percent - Bloomberg, 2009.0529 http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601081&sid=aYNYHAarU4ok&refer=australia FHA Policy on Tax Credit More Limited Than Expected - Wall Street Journal, 2009.0529 http://online.wsj.com/article/BT-CO-20090529-712103.html Savings on Labor Allow Work on Residential Skyscraper to Resume - New York Times, 2009.0529 http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/29/nyregion/29tower.html?ref=nyregion Mortgage Delinquencies, Foreclosures, Rates Increase - Bloomberg, 2009.0528 http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=a2zH6o6F7Wuc&refer=home Metrostudy Reports National and Local Housing Starts Plunge - Real Estate Channel Press Release, 2009.0528 http://www.realestatechannel.com/us-markets/residential-real-estate-1/metrostudy-housing-report-may-2009-housing-starts-housing-data-homes-for-sale-median-home-prices-brad-hunter-857.php Visteon Files for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy Protection - New York Times, 2009.0528 http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2009/05/28/business/AP-Visteon-Bankruptcy.html?scp=1&sq=Environment+sustainable&st=nyt Building Code Battles Heat Up in Midwest - New York Times, 2009.0528 http://greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/05/28/building-code-battles-heat-up-in-midwest/ U.S. Home Price Declines Slowed in First Quarter - Bloomberg, 2009.0527 http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20603037&sid=alTt9qEQPL1I&refer=home High-End Home Builders Face Tough Times - Columbia Flier, 2009.0527 http://www.explorehoward.com/news/62341/high-end-home-builders-face-tough-times/ Vancouver House Prices Show Ninth Consecutive Month of Decline - Vancouver Sun, 2009.0527 http://www.vancouversun.com/Business/Vancouver+house+prices+show+ninth+consecutive+month+decline/1635850/story.html Australia New Housing Starts Expected to Fall 17 Percent before Rising - - forum abuse -, 2009.0527 http://www.- forum abuse -.com/- forum abuse -/News/ShowStory.jsp?seq=961998&category=Economic+News Cost of Construction Materials Decline - Daily Journal of Commerce, 2009.0527 http://www.djcoregon.com/articleDetail.htm/2009/05/27/Cost-of-construction-materials-decline-Federal-statistics-show-that-all-industry-areas-are-seeing-pr Historic Architecture Vs. Clean Energy - New York Times, 2009.0527 http://greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/05/27/historic-architecture-vs-clean-energy/ Housing Hitting Bottom Means Fewest Starts Since 1945 - Bloomberg, 2009.0526 http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&refer=home&sid=adbBR4rdQqag Arizona Home Builders Group Backs Fee Moratorium - Phoenix Business Journal, 2009.0525 http://- abuse alert -.com/phoenix/stories/2009/05/25/daily40.html B.C. Housing Starts to Decline 43% from 2008: CMHC - Calgary Herald, 2009.0519 http://www.calgaryherald.com/business/housing+starts+decline+from+2008+CMHC/1609497/story.html People and Places by Nancy Novitski http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2009/0527/news_2-1.html SERA Architects in Portland, Oregon - Providence in Providence, Rhode Island - in Lithonia, Georgia - Roche-Dinkeloo in Washington, D.C., USA - Arthur Erickson in Vancouver, USA - Leigh & Orange in Jidd Haffs, Bahrain... -- * -- Please help us share this newsletter with a contribution to ArchWeek. 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