High Unemployment Levels Put Housing on Slow Growth Track

The end of the economic recession along with the continuation of low mortgage interest rates and stabilizing housing prices will result in growth in the nation's housing market this year, according to economists speaking at the 2010 International Builders' Show in Las Vegas, held January 19-22. But improvements will come slowly, they said, as high unemployment levels continue to discourage consumers and push home foreclosures higher.

NAHB Pursues Housing Crisis Solutions

By Barry Rutenberg
 
Your National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) is doing everything it can to help you and its more than 250,000 members across America to survive the housing slowdown.