Odd Lots

We’re Seeing in Real Time Why We Don’t Build Enough Homes

Construction workers frame a new home being built by CastleRock Communities in the Sunfield neighborhood of Buda, Texas, U.S., on Wednesday, Nov. 10, 2021. 

Photographer: Matthew Busch/Bloomberg
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In his very last answer at yesterday’s press conference, Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell talked about the shortage of homes:

Indeed. Mortgage rates have surged in response to the Fed tightening.