Carlos Martín, project director of the Remodeling Futures Program, says higher interest rates and “sharp downturns” in homebuilding and home sales are driving the latest projection. “With ongoing uncertainty in financial markets and the threat of a recession, homeowners are increasingly likely to ...
Elevated levels of inflation and mortgage rates and high construction costs are projected to continue the housing recession into 2023 and push the overall economy into a mild recession during the calendar year. Despite current challenges with affordability and slowing sales rates, the seco...
though projects may be deferred to when interest rates and costs settle. The lock-in effect with mortgage rates is still driving remodeling activity for homeowners who are looking to upgrade rather than move and give up their low interest rates. However,...
Interventions are needed that address systemic and social factors (eg, poverty, housing, insurance eligibility, transportation, and a fragmented health care system) that contribute to disparities in non–HIV-related mortality, as well as those that contribute to barriers specifically in HIV care (eg...
“We all know that the construction sector is one of the most interest-rate-sensitive sectors in this economy,” Branch said. “These high interest rates will keep growth, particularly in the private side of the market, subdued for 2024. That easing of monetary policy is going to be very ...
Only the most peripherally located areas present spaces without any POI. These spaces mainly lie: to the north (a mountainous, protected natural space); to the south (the port area); and to the east (corresponding to areas of 1960s housing stock) of the city. This distribution means that...
The restriction of settlement areas is opposed by society's need for housing, but also by the financial interests of landowners and the private economy (Fuchs and Thaler, 2017). Generally, a variety of barriers governs adaptation measures (Eisenack et al., 2014). From a scientific point of ...
We removed the demographic parameter of median income from our set of predictors, because it was correlated with population density and slightly correlated with the percentage of housing occupied by owners. We used Akaike’s information criterion (AIC) weight to determine which model was best ...
However, investment in Agroforestry according to the World Bank [13] is associated with various obstacles, such as “high interest rates, unclear institutional framework, limited policy framework, poorly developed markets, and insufficient research and applications.” In addition, as Ollinaho and Krö...