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There are short-term questions to be sure -- the impact of changes in residential housing markets and the prospects for inflation are two -- but, overall, the economy in 2006 seems likely to be very well-behaved.

We obviously track the mortgage activity and understand that overall share, but we don't focus on how many homes are being purchased by investors without a mortgage. That could be a more interesting part of the housing picture.

While new-home sales have been quite strong throughout 2005, we see a cooling of the market to a healthy and more sustainable pace in the months ahead, as substantiated by recent surveys of our builders. For 2006, we expect to see a 6 percent to 7 percent drop in sales, but certainly no reason for alarm. This would make 2006 the second or third best year in housing history.

We've been relying on the housing activity for our economic growth.

We are working throughout the borough with the community, with elected officials, and civic organizations to foster economic growth as well as support the creation of attractive and affordable housing to neighborhoods and provide the city's largest borough with an even better future.

We are coming off strong numbers, and I don't think we would want to say bad things about the housing market on the basis of these numbers alone.

We are collaborating with Washoe Medical Center to essentially provide affordable housing to their employees. In exchange for that, they will guarantee to purchase the units upon completion.

When one does all these things to increase the attractiveness of the place, does that not drive us toward a place where only the rich are able to take advantage of it? That was a concern of ours from the very beginning. The cause is what might be called non-price sensitive demand, people that can pay virtually anything. We were thinking ahead enough to realize it would get worse very quickly. We started thinking about this in '75. It may be the most aggressive affordable housing in the country. It wasn't enough.

We would only order the housing of birds if there was an outbreak in this country.

We wouldn't want the housing to impact Lake Marie and the rest of the (lighthouse) park.

This surprise rise in no way alters the broader view that the housing sector continues to cool.

The recession has ended, ... It is pretty typical but mild recession because consumer spending remained firm and housing continued to grow.

There have been very little teeth in the affordable housing laws.

There has been some spotty signs of a cooling in the broader housing market.

There is a crisis of affordable housing that you would not know about in an affluent community. That crisis is that many of working families are struggling to make ends meet because they are spending so much on disposable rent.

There is a clear indication that the housing market is showing a sustained, but moderate pickup. In terms of spending this is positive because it boosts confidence and the amount of money homeowners can borrow against the value of their homes.

We thought housing would be falling away as business activity picked up. But what you have now is the two overlapping.

We think these are circumstances that favor Ronald in this matter. Xavier is an NAIA school. The school did not attempt to relocate its team when it closed. He was forced to evacuate the storm-damaged area and find other housing on his own. The athletic director at Xavier has given him a full release.

We think these are circumstances that favor Ronald in this matter, ... Xavier is an NAIA school. The school did not attempt to relocate its team when it closed. He was forced to evacuate the storm-damaged area and find other housing on his own. The athletic director at Xavier has given him a full release.

Why here?' is a question that I'm asked a lot, ... The answer is there are many, many families moving to the Albany area because there are good-paying jobs and yet our housing prices aren't as high as Corvallis or Portland, for example. There's also a better quality of life here than some areas. It's a great place to raise a family.

Why are we in the housing business? That was the foundation in which all the other recommendations rest.

When I saw the opportunity to combine my passion for building affordable housing with my love for biking, I could not pass it up. I have also wanted to drive across the country, and now I get to bike.

We are starting to see maybe a turning in the housing market in the US. And if the US consumer retracts a little, we would expect to slow down in the US in the second half of the year. That translates into a slowdown in Asia as well." ()

We are starting to see a little bit of a slowdown in the enthusiasm for housing as an investment.

We are starting to see a change in consumer behavior. Consumers are cutting back because of high prices, rising interest rates and signs that the housing bubble is ending. Prices have probably begun the long steady process of grinding lower.

We at Interfaith Housing Coalition are thrilled to have received such a substantial gift from Mr. and Mrs. Simmons,

We believe India presents an extremely compelling investment story and expect to be a long-term investor in the real estate sector. The residential market is attractive because of rapid urbanization, the availability of housing finance, and the strong growth of the consumer segment.

Try to remove as much emotion as possible from the housing decision. When considering a house, go through it room by room and make a list of repairs that need to be done immediately and then add things you'd like to do if money were no object. Be cautious and do the math.

This will be the biggest attack on bad housing conditions that this part of south London has ever known.

This was an emergency housing program. It's winding down.

There is plenty of blame to go around for the U.S. housing bubble, but not much of it belongs to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. The two giant housing-finance institutions made many mistakes over the decades, some of them real whoppers, but causing house prices to soar and then crater during the past decade weren't among them.

There are government assistance programs, but they have a diminishing influence on the housing market.

This region is expanding not quite as much as the rest of the country. We will see much less housing activity, especially in the next couple of years.

This really underscores that just because there's a booming housing market, it doesn't translate into strong economic growth. It suggests that consumption spending has a built-in speed limit to it. You just can't expect to grow very fast.

To buy stocks just because it's the end of the year is not a good reason to do it when the fundamentals indicate otherwise. The yield curve is flattening in response to the slowing housing market. The implications can't be ignored. That's why we're trading the way we are.

What's holding up the consumer is habit. Until things change in a very material manner, American consumers won't alter their shopping habits significantly. The jobs market is strong and there's been a little bit of improvement in wage growth. I still don't believe that gas prices are high enough to derail consumers. If there is one thing that could shake consumers it's the housing market and not gas inflation.

With construction in north Stockton, we've identified 10 new elementary school sites off of Eight Mile Road. Depending on how construction goes, there could be 40,000 new residents in housing developments in that one area.

While housing prices and margins may be climbing to stratospheric levels, it is important to recognize that they are still climbing and driving earnings higher,

While housing demand will probably continue to moderate from the torrid pace seen in the last few years, housing starts should remain well-supported in the coming months, as builders' backlogs remain near record levels and rebuilding along the Gulf Coast will eventually boost activity.

Without that employment, that housing is already turning over. You're going from older couples without kids to young couples with children.

Without question, the housing market has peaked out. However, I think it will be a modest decline.

Without HUD's help and funding, our housing authority would not exist.

With sustained job growth, falling deficits, low interest rates and a booming housing market, America's economy is robust and getting even stronger.

When we look back a year from now I think we'll recognize the summer of 2005 as the peak of the housing boom.

When we talk about our housing market, we're really talking about hundreds of housing markets, each with different characteristics, in local markets,

We will likely see quite a reversal of the January surge in housing starts during February as a mid-month blizzard blanketed the East Coast under heavy banks of snow.

(We will build) Private market housing ... targeted to mid-income people who want to live in cities,

We've not seen anything like this previously. There have been hurricane disruptions, like Andrew, which was a temporary thing and the market bounced back, followed by a return of a red-hot housing market with housing prices hitting new highs in 2004.

We wanted to give the housing options to the public. We want people to know that housing is for everybody, no matter what income or means.

We are excited to host our financial services conference again this year. This year's line-up of management teams and presentations will provide our investing clients with invaluable insight into earnings growth, credit trends, the housing boom/bust and competitive trends in financial services.

Two major factors that will influence the housing market in 2006 will be our ability to create jobs and provide affordable housing along the coast, more particularly in the Hilton Head and Myrtle Beach markets, where service personnel face long commutes or busing to work.

Exports have been disappointing. Higher petrol prices and a waning of the housing boom contributed to the recent moderation in household consumption growth.

Fair housing is not an option - it is the law.

Faltering U.S. new home sales, reflecting shrinking housing affordability, call into question the notion of another year above-trend growth for U.S. consumer spending and real gross domestic product.

Both the residents of Shady Lane and the city had felt for years that it was an unsafe property. Really, the bottom line was providing affordable housing that is not safe isn't an option for the city.

The governor's involvement was merely facilitating contact with a corporate citizen of Florida that was seeking to provide immediate housing relief. Any assertion the governor had to do with any contracting negotiations or further action by FEMA is unfounded.

The governor has said he is not satisfied with the temporary housing situation as far as getting the trailers out as fast as we possibly can. But there is no one to blame. The governor wants the trailers to be moved as close to the evacuees' property as possible so people can oversee the rebuilding. There is more involved than just getting a trailer to a site and leaving it there.

The government was very supportive of this project. Maybe it doesn't have immediate benefits, like housing or feeding people or giving them jobs. But turning kids onto science is really crucial.

We're talking well over 100,000 people we have to find temporary housing for,

We've been consistently surprised by the strength of the labor market. We still think over the next year it will moderate amid slowing housing and consumer spending.

The government's decision to build 3,000 additional housing units in Ariel is an expression of our desire to strengthen the settlement blocs.

The gradual cooling off of the housing market will be welcome news at the Federal Reserve.

Tuition, housing fees, even textbook costs are difficult to meet these days. Why Congress feels the need to cut student loans and drag our faces in the mud, I do not know.

While we continue to make progress every day, the temporary housing mission is not moving as fast as anyone would like.

While we believe Home Depot is one of the finest names in retailing, we continue to reiterate our cautious outlook on the shares, given the company's vulnerability to a potential slowdown in the housing environment.

While they seem to be willing to pay the cost of housing hurricane victims, it is not clear that FEMA would agree to make long-term payments to the state to house the homeless in these apartments.

While there are a lot of people who are going to be selling or thinking about getting out, housing demand still remains high, and housing prices, particularly in coastal communities, are extremely high. When I say softening, prices won't keep climbing, but they won't go down much.

While there appears to be some signs of the beginnings of a recovery in the housing market and more positive news of Christmas trading from retailers, it is clear that companies are still finding it difficult to forecast in the current economic climate.

While the monthly data is often erratic and the government statisticians warn that it takes four months to establish a change in trend, it is pretty clear from the top chart that the explosion in housing from 1997 through early 2000 is ending.

While the housing sector is slowing, almost all of its weakness will be offset by the improving factory sector, ... More interest rate hikes will be necessary to slow the economy sufficiently to alleviate the Fed's fears of building inflationary pressures.

While the February mortgage lending and approval data are relatively healthy, there are hints that housing market activity could be starting to lose momentum after several months of improvement.

We've had a 98 percent success rate with people remaining in permanent housing for more than two years.

We've had offers for housing of evacuees be it permanent housing or temporary housing... the community has poured out a lot of offers for housing. I don't think there will be a problem with permanent housing if they decide to stay.

We already know the number of permits drawn by builders has decreased and is going to continue to decline because of the cool-down in the housing market. We won't need as many construction workers.

Weak U.S. housing data fueled concern of a U.S. economic slowdown, triggering buying of bonds.

We all know the housing market is slowing, and people are blowing this housing data off a bit.

There is also a stigma about what affordable housing constitutes. They're high-quality projects that can be integrated in the neighborhood, and they service people we depend on: child-care workers, teachers, health-care workers.

There is nothing that looks at the future capacity to have income as much as the housing sector, and the fact that this sector has held together as well as it has ... is indicative to me that consumers are feeling very good about their economic prospects and that they are going to continue to spend, ... Households are enormously confident and their wages are going up, and they've got income to spend. That's going to make it hard to slow down spending.

There is nothing that legislators can do this session that is more important than the affordable housing trust fund, allocating full funding from that.

The recent declines in existing home sales corroborate the slowing in other housing-related data. We expect additional slowing in the housing market, including prices, in 2006. In turn, the cooling will probably result in a moderation in overall growth.

We've never seen this size of a housing bubble before, so in a sense we're in kind of a strange place right now.

We will be facing urban core creep. This proposal is not going to create a stable housing market. It is going to drive up housing prices.

What's changing and why more people will adopt this, is choices in housing. As long as there are people unhappy with the status quo in housing choices, there will be an opportunity for well-built prefab or factory-built housing.

What is new today is that lenders are allowing for the layering of risks on top of one another. What we don't know is what if we put all these risks together and put them in a rising interest rate environment, a declining housing market, or a weakening economy.

What I would conclude is that we are backing away from the robust levels of housing activity we saw in the spring and summer of last year, but there is by no means a swoon going on in housing activity just yet.

(We) gave more weight to housing and medical insurance (prices)...and slightly less weight to food.

We have about 25-hundred spots in residence, but they're all full. But, there is off campus housing that we can refer these students to.

We just don't have the time to develop new temporary housing communities. We need to get them out of these shelters. . . . We don't want to just warehouse our people.

You have a lack of housing in the New Orleans area, utilities out in a good portion of the city, people looking for schools for their children, you don't have day care or transportation. Those are just some of the reasons why people are staying put where they are and not going home.

With house prices still looking robust, the chance of the bank cutting rates is slim. They are not going to jeopardize the soft landing they achieved for the housing market last year.

With growth back to trend, housing market indicators trending higher and consumer spending substantially improved from the mid-2005 weak spot we continue to believe the next move in rates is up not down.

You had big components down that should not be down, such as appliances, furniture and building materials. These should be stronger given the robust housing market.

This year, most of the strong growth will be in the first half of the year and then it will taper off. Higher interest rates will start to kick in. That will affect companies' (ability to) borrow, it will affect the housing market and all the various industries that are related to that.

What this means is housing is not falling off a cliff like everyone says, it's doing fine, and what this means is the market should listen to what Federal Reserve officials are saying and that is the market is doing fine.

What happened in the past seven days may not be a reflection of what will happen over the next seven days. Housing is the most critical factor right now. Everything is getting better every week.

We specialize in low-income housing projects. We have similar housing projects all over Indiana, and one in Columbus, Ohio.

We sincerely apologize to those guests whose vacations have been impacted by these voyage cancellations, ... This inconvenience ... will provide desperately needed housing for thousands of individuals affected by this tragedy.

Too-easy credit and millions of bad loans made during the U.S. housing bubble paved the way for the financial calamity and Great Recession that followed. Today, by contrast, credit is too tight. Mortgage loans are particularly hard to get, creating a problem for the housing market and the broader economy.

We were living in student housing at MTSU at this time, ... Vickie was finishing her degree, and I totally dedicated myself to meal preparation and attending Weight Watchers meetings. I became a certified Weight Watcher instructor, and conducted numerous meetings. I had tremendous initial success, losing 70 pounds, from 220 down to 150.

We lost 15 teachers here last year because they couldn't afford to stay. If we can't provide housing for the service sector and seasonal workers we are going to lose our quality of life.