11.   Prices have been low in recent years despite a national housing boom.

12.   Remember that housing booms go bust.

13.   Some economists have warned that if rates go much higher, the housing boom will start to wane.

14.   Still, the housing boom has a demographic wind in its sails that Mankiw and Weil had not anticipated.

15.   The expansion of the inspection business into the new-home market has taken off during the current housing boom.

16.   The housing boom is keeping pace with new residents moving into the state.

17.   The housing boom brought traditional suburban-style subdivisions to rural areas and thousands of bungalows to artificial canals and lagoons that builders dug in the marshland.

18.   The housing boom has tapped feelings of community pride in home buyers, who like the idea of helping long-suffering cities that they believe are trying to revive themselves.

19.   The postwar housing boom allowed Eckbo plenty of opportunity to develop his ideas.

20.   The surge of interest from restaurants and other food businesses is spurred by a housing boom.