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Texas startups build 3D-printed homes to boost inventory, battle climate change

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housing market continue to present challenges for the entire housing system: chronic inventory shortages and an alarming number of destructive natural disasters stemming from climate change. In 2017, the very first 3D-printed home was built in Yaroslavl, Russia. Two ongoing stories that have rattled the U.S.

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Affordable housing inventory is limited due to foreclosure prevention efforts

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A key source of affordable housing inventory was cut in half over the last three years, resulting from well-intended but heavy-handed efforts to keep delinquent borrowers in homes. That key source of affordable housing inventory: distressed properties sold to third-party buyers or repossessed by lenders at foreclosure auction.

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Todman on HUD’s steps to increase supply, review rules and get the money ’out the door’   

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Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) is focusing on launching initiatives to increase home supply, review existing rules in and ensure the agency is “getting the money out the door.“ “In Before joining HUD, Todman was the CEO of the National Association of Housing and Redevelopment Officials (NAHRO) from 2017 to June 2021.

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Local housing markets: Othello, Osage Beach and Vienna

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And while the seven-day moving average for single-family inventory was just 36 homes as of June 2023, it is far better than the 15 homes listed in mid-May of 2023. Inventory was a huge issue the last few years, but we do have some inventory now across all price points, so at least buyers have choices now,” Dominguez said.

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New home sales are at risk with rising mortgage rates ?

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Second, because of the downtrend in inventory since 2014 and the demand pick-up we will see in the years 2020-2024, we had a risk of home prices accelerating too much. Census Bureau and the Department of Housing and Urban Development. 2014 was the last year total inventory rose from weakness in demand. The only risk to that 6.2

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“It’s crazy”: Homebuilders big and small struggle to finish projects

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Owing to a historic inventory crunch, new construction is playing a more prominent role in the housing inventory landscape in decades. We have been in a perpetually bare market for inventory for so long now that builders are having to fill the demand and I am not sure when it is going to end, which is crazy,” said Noel.

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HUD plans to restore 2013 version of discrimination rule

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Department of Housing and Urban Development published a proposal to the Federal Register on Friday that would rescind the department’s 2020 disparate impact rule and restore the 2013 discriminatory effects rule. HUD, staying HUD’s implementation and enforcement of the rule. Consequently, the 2020 rule never actually took effect.

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