The Headlines August 18, 2017

Ten Home Building industry stories we have read recently:

• Affordable housing shortage challenges working-class Spartanburg residents.   Spartanburg Herald-Journal.
• How other cities are tackling affordable housing.  Spartanburg Hearld-Journal.
• Home building slowed as cities try to tame growth.  USAToday.
• Mauldin among the easiest places in South Carolina to sell a home.  SmartAsset.
• Lumber shortages encumber more builders.  NAHBNow.
• A Conversation with Grover and Tonya Martin, Owners, ProSource.  UpstateBizSC.
• Builders starting to report shortages of framing lumber.  Eye on Housing.
• Mortgage rates fall again.  Eye on Housing.
• How a home purchase boosts consumer spending.  Eye on Housing.
• NAHB Chair elected to Federal Home Loan Bank of Dallas Board.  NAHBNow.

August 18, 2017.