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Is the Transportation Industry Due a Digital Transformation?

GoForrmz

Is it finally time for the transportation industry to undergo a much-needed digital transformation? The transportation industry plays a pivotal role in the global economy, ensuring the seamless movement of goods and materials across the world. With estimates as high as $6.5 An electronic bill of lading could save $6.5 In the U.K.,

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How will appraisal technology evolve in 2022?

Housing Wire

With an appraiser shortage that’s causing delays across the country, it’s time to apply more intelligence to the way we get the right appraiser to the right property at the right time – very similar to what Uber has done for the transportation and freight industries. HW: What innovations should the industry be looking out for in 2022?

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DataDigest: Construction costs easing for homebuilders

Housing Wire

Index values for most construction inputs are down from 2022 but remain above pre-pandemic levels. But it fell to about 150 in July 2022 and has remained around that mark ever since, hitting 153 last December. after the initial lockdowns in 2020 before rocketing to almost 206 in June 2022.

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Shaun Donovan is named Enterprise Community Partners CEO

Housing Wire

Department of Housing and Urban Development ( HUD ) and former director of the U.S. Donovan, who served during the full eight years of the Barack Obama administration, bring to the role nearly three decades of housing policy and community development initiative experience. Shaun Donovan, the former secretary of the U.S.

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Hope Through Housing uses MLK Grant to fund after school programs

Housing Wire

In 2022, they were the recipients of an MLK grant which will be used to fund their youth development initiative. The MLK grant we received last year is helping to enhance our youth development initiatives in the Houston area. We regularly see students become the first in their families to head to college as a result of our work.

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Is the market pivoting ahead of the Fed?

Housing Wire

The labor market has been one of the two pillars they’re standing on for their aggressive rate hikes in 2022, so let’s look at the job data today. Employment declined in retail trade and transportation, and warehousing. A big development this week is that the Fed is telling the public they’re mindful of over-hiking rates.

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S. Fla.’s Fastest Rising Home Values? Near Rail Stations

Empire Appraisal Group

Near Rail Stations Transportation drives growth but transit growth also drives housing. The privately-owned rail service Brightline opened stations in Miami, Fort Lauderdale and West Palm Beach in 2018, and opened two more in Aventura and Boca Raton in 2022. s Fastest Rising Home Values? Home values near a S.