The LAT writes about the effects of the housing slowdown on Mexican immigrants working construction jobs. Nearly 3 million Latinos, 3/4 of them foreign-born, work in the U.S housing industry, according to the Pew Hispanic Center.
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The old adage, that a homeowner shouldn't be in the house when it's being shown to a prospective buyer, definitely applies in this case:
JANESVILLE, Wis. (AP) -- A couple who'd been checking out a house for sale in Janesville, Wisconsin got quite a shock. They found the 55-year-old homeowner dead in her bed.
Their real estate agent was standing in the dining room while Justin and Colleen McKeen walked through the home Monday night. She knew something was wrong shen she heard Mrs. McKeen scream.
The real estate agency listing the home says it had been on the market for a while. Authorities say they don't suspect foul play in the death of the home's owner, Linda O'Leary.
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Andres Duany talks abouts new urbanism [video]. A granny flat is a bedroom that has gravitated in the house so that it can be rented out. Planning departments, however, have vigorously stamped out this configuration as much as possible out of fear of duplex-ing a neighborhood and "overloading" a home.
Here's Duany's firms project tearsheet for Bradburn Village in Longmont (Colo.).
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