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HW+ Member Spotlight: Josh Mettle

Housing Wire

HousingWire: What has been the most useful tech tool for you? Loan officers should be helping clients understand how borrowing for as long as possible benefits the borrower because paying back today’s mortgage with 2030, 2040, or 2050 dollars is a great deal for the borrower. I could not run my business without either of them.

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Why it’s time for the housing industry to get serious about climate risk

Housing Wire

This solution – built on Google Cloud’s secure and sustainable infrastructure – is designed to help companies, government agencies, and enterprises measure, model, and mitigate the physical risks of climate change to the housing industry, from the present through 2050.

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How originators can capitalize on reverse mortgage business in light of the changing housing market

Housing Wire

By 2050, 20% of Americans will be 65 or older. Increasingly, financial professionals are viewing reverse mortgages as strategic tools to be used as part of a comprehensive retirement plan. Ten thousand baby boomers reach retirement age every day , and that number is expected to double over the next several decades.

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Rural America is losing affordable housing at a crisis pace

Housing Wire

In fact, if nothing is done, this USDA program — called Section 515 — is projected to lose up to 137,000 affordable-housing units between 2023 to 2033 nationwide due to mortgage maturities alone, according to USDA projections , “with a potential to lose approximately 333,000 units by the year 2050.”

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[National Safety Month] 3 Ways to Avoid Heat-Related Illness on Your Job Sites

GoForrmz

“ Our study estimates the total economic loss from heat in the United States to be at least $100 billion annually—a figure that will double by 2030 and quintuple by 2050. ” Whenever possible, try to have a cool area available for employees to step away from the heat and hydrate. “

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How Big Data Can Support Your Harvest Season

GoForrmz

In 2016 the USDA’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) launched their Food and Agriculture Cyberinformatics and Tools Initiative to create an easily accessible hub for the entire agricultural community. “ billion in 2050, and 11.2 billion by 2050 , but we only have depleting resources available to feed everyone.

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[National Safety Month] Improve Workplace Safety with Technology

GoForrmz

The goal of this program is to support infrastructure, business decisions, and technologies to work to zero workplace deaths by 2050. Using a Customer Relationship Management (CRM) tool can mean there’s a single source of truth for all your customer information.