Stocks plummet, banks fail, savings evaporate and foreclosures steal family homes and futures. A chart of new housing starts looks like the weakening pulse of a dying patient.
The flurry of building that gobbled up tens of thousands of acres and transformed farms into housing tracts all across the region has ended. The construction fields are quiet as an uneasy public waits to see where the United States' economy is heading.
It is a golden moment to make substantial changes in the course of development, and...
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