NBN Online for the week of May 9, 2005

Housing to Stay Healthy as It Recedes From Its Peak

Despite some current softening of growth in the U.S. economy, an ongoing effort by the Federal Reserve to push up interest rates and rampant price increases in the nation’s hottest housing markets, economists at the NAHB Construction Forecast Conference in Washington, D.C. last week said that housing activity should remain healthy through next year even as it recedes from peak levels.

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Will You Be the Next Winner of a Digital Camera?

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Customize Your Computer’s Cursor With the NBN ‘Hammer’

Show your pride in the home building industry by customizing your computer’s cursor with the “pounding hammer” cursor that is used in Nation’s Building News.

The customized cursor is available free from NAHB and Nation’s Building News and will work on Windows 95 or newer operating systems.

To begin customizing your computer’s cursor, first download the two hammer graphics needed to make the hammer move:

• Click the following link for the Hamone graphic and save it to your computer.
• Click the following link for the Hamoneover graphic and save it to your computer.

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Key Endangered Species Rules Revised in Florida

The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) recently voted to adopt revisions to the state’s endangered species listing process, completing a two-year effort by the Florida Home Builders Association (FHBA) to advocate enhancements for these rules.

The proposed rules update listing criteria (including program guidelines), add a peer review component and create a process to address selection and approval of members of a panel that will review data and develop the listing recommendation.