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$69 million awarded for affordable housing in Western North Carolina (828newsnow.com)

Consolidation across the value chain (John Burns Research)

Summing Up Federer, The Hall of Famer (Christopher Clarey)

Builders bet on multifamily housing — but only in certain places (Marketplace)

The American Dream House Is Getting Harder to Buy or Rent (Newsweek)

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“Money is not just money. What it always is, is a measure of discomfort.” – Dialogue from The Old Man

“Here is her greatest gift: If you gave every category of people a circle in a massive Venn diagram—straight and gay, liberal and conservative, white and black, Asian and Hispanic, trans and cis, devout and atheist, old and young, billionaire and broke—Dolly is the place they all overlap. That doesn’t mean everyone loves her. It means more different types of people love her than they love anybody else.

Do you understand how hard that is? To make everyone feel welcome at the table and not come off as phony, or bland, or grasping for cash? Dolly is the universal icebreaker. You can wander into the grimiest biker bar, or the poshest country club, and know that someone in there loves ‘Jolene.'” – From Tommy Tomlinson’s tribute to Dolly Parton, which is the best one, by far, I’ve read.

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