A committee in the Connecticut legislature voted in favor of a bill that would restrict development in coastal areas that are highly vulnerable to flooding.
A $21,000 lawsuit against an Amish family sparked debate over whether New York state can force the Amish to purchase engineer-stamped plans before building a house.
U.S. house prices fell modestly in the fourth quarter of 2011 according to the Federal Housing Finance Agency’s (FHFA) seasonally adjusted purchase-only house price index (HPI).
February 2012 saw 698,000 housing starts, an almost-35 percent increase from February 2011, according to data released today by the U.S. Census Bureau and the Department of Housing and Urban Development.