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1. New home sales create construction jobs.
2. Existing home sales do not create construction jobs.
The next chart shows residential construction employees per capita.
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Note the exceptionally weak recovery in residential construction employment.
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To do something pointless or insignificant that will soon be overtaken by events, or that contributes nothing to the solution of a current problem.
Source Data:
St. Louis Fed: New Home Sales / Existing Home Sales
St. Louis Fed: Residential Construction Employees per Capita
2 comments:
Unfortunately, there's not much point in building more homes when there's little demand for it...
Cinco-X,
Ever get the feeling that there's a little bit of Detroit in all of us?
Next Detroit blight removal site: 21 blocks, 67 homes in Brightmoor
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