Arizona’s voters chose to raise their state sales tax by 1% yesterday in a special election. The tax increase is theoretically for a period of three years. There’s little doubt that a tax increase was about the only temporary way out of the vise that was squeezing the state’s finances. The why of how the […]
Archive for May 19th, 2010
Housing Roundup
Posted by Tom Lindmark on May 19th, 2010
Lots of interesting news on housing over the past couple of days. In the interest of finding the lazy way to review all of it, here’s a compendium with some thoughts. First, Donald Marron has an interesting way of looking at new construction. You probably noted that new housing starts were reported earlier this week […]