As foreclosures convert homeowners to renters, construction of additional multi-family units to accommodate the surge languishes: the recession renders little…
Tag: Housing news
Bo McCarver’s weekly housing news compilation – 2/3/2009
All eyes were on the political struggle surrounding the Democratic stimulus program this week as more dismal news of foreclosures…
Bo McCarver’s weekly housing news compilation – 1/27/2009
With the first round of bailout billions having rendered no progress in stemming foreclosures, the Obama Administration ponders where to…
Bo McCarver’s weekly housing news compilation – 1/20/2009
A year ago, the business pages of Texas’ daily newspapers uniformly ran stories saying the national downturn in housing was…
Bo McCarver’s weekly housing news compilation – 1/14/2009
The rental housing market begins to feel the recession as vacancy rates increase and rents drop. Analysts cite unemployment as…
Bo McCarver’s weekly housing news compilation – 12/23/2008
Unquestioned, over-sold and under-regulated, the American Dream has collapsed and brought down a whole house of cards. Efforts to resurrect…
Bo McCarver’s weekly housing news compilation – 12/18/2008
The eminent administration change refocuses policies to relief of low and middle income households rather than the financial industry. This…
Bo McCarver’s weekly housing news compilation – 12/9/2008
The axe continues to drop on home buyers who bought more than they could afford. Federal and private bank efforts…
Bo McCarver’s weekly housing news compilation – 12/2/2008
Eight years of mismanagement and corruption have left the nation’s top agencies gutted: the bright and ethical left early as…
Bo McCarver’s weekly housing news compilation – 11/25/2008
Among the many daunting tasks for the Obama Administration is the revamping of HUD that has languished under poor leadership…
Bo McCarver’s weekly housing news compilation – 11/19/2008
Foreclosures continue to soar across the nation as housing starts dwindle. Cities are laced with vacant, unaffordable houses as the…
Bo McCarver’s weekly housing news compilation – 11/12/2008
As the general economy sinks, foreclosures continue to soar and new housing starts dwindle. In California, foreclosures devastate whole towns.…
Bo McCarver’s weekly housing news compilation – 11/5/2008
The consequences of an unregulated housing finance industry continue to hammer the American middle class: soon a quarter of the…
Bo McCarver’s weekly housing news compilation – 10/29/2008
Administration of the $700 billion bailout has already taken new and questionable turns. While the “Main Street versus Wall Street”…
Bo McCarver’s weekly housing news compliation – 10/22/2008
This week we learned how Freddie Mac administrators thwarted a bill that would have provided the oversight to possibly avoid…
Bo McCarver’s weekly housing news compliation – 10/15/2008
For a pdf version of the full stories and other contextual articles in social, economic and political areas, contact Bo…
Bo McCarver’s weekly housing news compliation – 10/7/2008
An autopsy of Fannie Mae is offered this week by the New York Times, which asserts conflicting pressures to back…
Bo McCarver’s weekly housing news compliation – 9/30/2008
Tent cities continue to sprout across the nation as foreclosures soar and jobs disappear. The financial institutions that might generate…
Bo McCarver’s weekly housing news compliation – 9/23/2008
My friend and fellow houser Bo McCarver shares with the Texas housers blog the housing related stories from his weekly…
Bo McCarver’s weekly housing news compliation – 9/16/2008
My friend and fellow houser Bo McCarver shares with the Texas housers blog the housing related stories from his weekly…
Bo McCarver’s weekly housing news compliation – 9/10/2008
My friend and fellow houser Bo McCarver shares with the Texas housers blog the housing related stories from his weekly…
Bo McCarver’s weekly housing news compilation – 9/3/2008
My friend and fellow houser Bo McCarver shares with the Texas housers blog the housing related stories from his weekly…
Bo McCarver’s weekly housing news compilation – 8/27/2008
My friend and fellow houser Bo McCarver shares with the Texas housers blog the housing related stories from his weekly…
Bo McCarver’s weekly housing news compilation – 8/20/2008
My friend and fellow houser Bo McCarver shares with the Texas housers blog the housing related stories from his weekly…
Bo McCarver’s weekly housing news compilation – 8/13/2008
My friend and fellow houser Bo McCarver shares with the Texas housers blog the housing related stories from his weekly…
Bo McCarver’s weekly housing news compilation – 8/6/2008
My friend and fellow houser Bo McCarver shares with the Texas housers blog the housing related stories from his weekly…
Bo McCarver’s weekly housing news compilation – 7/30/2008
My friend and fellow houser Bo McCarver shares with the Texas housers blog the housing related stories from his weekly…
Bo McCarver’s weekly housing news compilation – 7/23/2008
My friend and fellow houser Bo McCarver has agreed to share with the Texas housers blog the housing related stories…