Research Briefs

-- USC Lusk Center for Real Estate economists available for interviews

Contract Magazine
Sofia Galadza

Riverside, Calif.-area construction firms recruit workers
By Leslie Berkman

Lusk Center: No housing bubble
By: BRADLEY J. FIKES - Staff Writer

By Gregory J. Wilcox
Staff Writer

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The Keston Institute for Infrastructure of the University of Southern California has prepared a working paper entitled An Assessment of the Impacts of the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) on the Provision of Civil Infrastructure. The working paper reports the results of a telephone survey with selected infrastructure providers and their agents regarding the impact of CEQA on the provision of civil infrastructure.

The USC Keston Institute for Infrastructure is pleased to announce a funding initiative to support policy research in the field of civil infrastructure. Research grants from this initiative will be awarded to facilitate high-quality, publishable research

The school's researchers, who have been wrong about home prices for three years, say gains will flatten this year and begin disappearing in 2006.

New study points to activity in local market as reason behind bigger price tags

IF YOU'RE A SENTIENT BEING, you've no doubt read something about the "housing bubble" this week.

And why not? Housing is central to our lives and financial well-being. A record 68.6% of U.S. households owned their own homes as of early 2004.