Safe as houses

Structure:

1. Home builders are feeling hesitant. Housing price rises and sales have slowed and are down by 12%.

2. Housing is the Business Cycle and eight of the ten previous recessions had been prededed by serious problems in housing. 

3. Why happening: builders' costs are up, a brew of factors pushing builders' costs up: labor, lots, leading, laws and lumber. 

4. 20% tariff on Canadian lumber, which led to a spike in prices this summer, these pressures are not new. 

Homebodies: 

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