As part of the U.S. government’s two-year education campaign, which began in April, to reduce deaths and injuries from falls on construction jobs, every construction-related death from falling is noted to followers with a tweet.
At a time when the housing industry needs an infusion of hope, the demographic gods are poised to unleash what some real estate agents say will be the industry’s salvation: waves of young Hispanic workers and families hungry for houses of their own.
With the residential real estate industry shell-shocked from years of a moribund market, its spokespeople can be forgiven for taking a cautious attitude toward last week’s announcement of a $25 billion settlement with five of the nation’s biggest mortgage lenders over flawed and fraudulent foreclosure practices.
A big takings case reported by North Carolina Lawyers Weekly has all the ingredients to pit property-rights advocates against an arrogant government agency willing to send certain property owners into decades of limbo for its own convenience.