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Americans Pour Record Sums Into Home Improvements
Wall Street Journal, July 25, 2017–Laura Kusisto, Sarah Chaney (subscription)
A shortage of new single-family homes across the U.S. is pushing up prices and locking many buyers out of the market. The silver lining: a boom in renovations of existing homes.