In the past six years, the party of home ownership has failed to revive home ownership.
The proof will be whether it revives home entertainment sales by getting consumers excited about the new freedoms of the digital world.
The struggle to revive home video sales is critical for the industry; consumer spending on entertainment delivered through discs and other formats has fallen from a peak of about $21.8 billion in 2004 to about $18.4 billion last year.
The bill, which was supported by the National Association of Realtors, is intended to help revive home sales in high-risk areas where uncertainty over flood insurance premiums was reducing transactions by targeting not only the more affluent portion of the population but also middle class American homeowners.
As a former home economics teacher, I say bravo to Helen Zoe Veit ("Time to Revive Home Ec," Op-Ed, Sept. 6).
T'SERA MINGST-BELCHER Jersey City, Sept. 6, 2011 To the Editor: Cheers for "Time to Revive Home Ec"!
Film executives, though they eat in the same few restaurants and attend the same parties, cannot agree on the best way of reviving the home-entertainment market, or even on what has caused it to slump.
Investor seem to believe that the Federal Reserve, with its unprecedented slashing of interest rates, can revive the home building industry.
Since 2004, she has been working to revive her home country's national ballet company, which had seen better days, bringing in new dancers and revamping the repertoire.
Freed from nappy duty, the 23-year-old revived the home side with an inspirational intervention just as another evening of ignominy was beckoning.
