WSJ(3/21) What's Behind Hot Home Building Pace?
(From THE WALL STREET JOURNAL)
By Constance Mitchell Ford
New York -- IT IS NO SECRET that U.S. home builders have been putting up
houses at a furious pace. But even housing-industry executives -- typically an
optimistic lot -- were taken aback when the U.S. government reported last week
that home-building activity has accelerated.
The Commerce Department said that construction was started on new homes in
February at an annualized rate of 2.2
