Letters
Editorial
It's All Your Fault
"Why does a house cost so much to
build? Why can this great nation not
build enough good housing for its citizens?
The answer is simple. Productivity
has not kept up with wages, and no one is
even seeking new ways to build housing
at much less cost. Not industry. Not the
federal government. Not the professionals.
No one."
— Robert Halle, Research Architect
from Nation's Building News
Take last Thursday...please. We were
having problems getting material from
a supplier, one client was grumbling
about a bill, four sales reps couldn't
wait to tell us that their respective
companies had just made available the
greatest product improvements since
sliced bread, and the checkbook wouldn't
balance. Two