The pace of U.S. home construction fell by 4% in July despite strong demand from would-be buyers, held back by a shortage of skilled labor and affordable land.

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The Federal Housing Administration is changing regulations to make it easier for more first-time condo buyers to obtain mortgages.

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A new bill would clean up an existing law that, amid confusion, has led some local governments to require contractors to file both paper and electronic copies of building permits.

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The number of U.S. home sales slipped by 0.4% in April, as would-be homebuyers had trouble with affording new places to live and dealt with a small supply of starter houses.

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The number of homes under construction in the U.S. decreased by 8.7 percent in February, as ground breakings for single-family houses plunged to their lowest level in nearly two years.

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A group of parents in south-central Wisconsin is forming a group to build affordable housing for their adult children with disabilities.

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U.S. developers broke ground on more houses last month, but the increase occurred entirely in the construction of apartments. The number of new single-family houses built decreased.

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The number of new homes sold in the U.S. plummeted by 8.9 percent in October, even as the number of newly built, unsold homes sitting on the market climbed to its highest level since 2009.

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The number of homes being built in the U.S. increased by a slight 1.5 percent in October, but in a troubling sign, groundbreakings for single-family houses became less common.

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Jotshua Vega Marcon typically arrives to work at a site where a house is being built on Milwaukee's South Side a full two hours before his shift starts. And the end of the day usually finds him packing up and going home a

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