Economic environment improves for homebuilders

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Market conditions improved over the last month for new residential housing but continued to worsen for residential remodeling. In the new home market, affordability continued to improve and is now at high level that set off the 2004-06 housing boom. This is the consequence of falling mortgage rates and now rapidly falling home prices and still rising consumer income. However, income growth has slowed. Real income growth declined in February and is expected to be steady to declining for several more months. Also, there was a reduction in the total inventory of homes available for sale.