August 11 is National 811 Day Today, August 11th is National Safe Digging Day. It is a nationwide public awareness effort to “call before you dig” before starting a building or landscaping project. The Common Ground Alliance says 811 is the national call-before-you-dig phone number. They say anyone who plans to dig should call 811
Boston to launch curbside food waste collection in August Boston will soon pick up food-only waste curbside, along with trash and recycling, for residents interested in composting their food scraps. Food waste accounts for one-third of Boston’s waste stream, according to Boston chief of streets Jascha Franklin-Hodge, and it’s the country’s largest single landfill material
Annual Home Price Gains Stayed High In August The S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller U.S. National Home Price NSA Index reported a 19.8% annual gain for August, 2021, basically the same as the previous month. Their 10-City Composite annual increase came in at 18.6% and their 20-City Composite posted a 19.7% year-over-year gain – both down from the
New Single-Family Home Sales Up 1.5% in August The U.S. Government is reporting that sales of new single-family houses in August, 2021 were at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 740k, which is 1.5% higher than July’s revised rate and is 24.3% lower than one year ago. The median sales price of new houses sold
Housing Starts Jump 3.9% in August The U.S. government is reporting that privately‐owned housing starts in August were at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 1,615,000, which is 3.9% higher than July’s revised number. In addition, this figure is 17.4% higher than one year ago. August’s rate for units in buildings with five units or
Consumer Price Index Up 0.3% in August The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics is reporting that the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U) was 0.3% in August, 2021. Over the last 12 months, the all items index increased 5.3% before seasonal adjustment. Click here to read the full release at the Bureau of
