President Barack Obama’s prime-time address on jobs didn’t focus much on housing, but it would create a $15 billion fund to get construction workers to rehab vacant and foreclosed homes and businesses.
The Labor Department is investigating pay practices at several top home building companies, including Pulte, Lennar, and KB Home, hitting them with a broad demand for records that has led to complaints of regulatory overreach, according to the Wall Stree
In Cleveland, the Cuyahoga County Land Bank, which started two years ago, buys dilapidated houses and tears them down to remove eyesores from otherwise stable streets.
U.S. Rep. Gary Ackerman, D-N.Y., is planning to introduce "Homestead: Act 2," a bill designed to encourage homeownership by offering potential homeowners incentives to invest in existing homes.
The Environmental Protection Agency last Wednesday decided to reconsider the imposition of a nationwide cap on how much sediment can be part of the stormwater draining from a construction site. The agency's announcement comes more than 18 months after NA
