Low home supply has US builders stepping up construction despite high interest rates 

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High interest rates are usually bad news for homebuilders. But right now, they are actually making new homes easy to sell by compounding a shortage of available real estate, The Wall Street Journal reports. The housing shortage was a problem even before the pandemic crisis struck, as the long shadow of the 2008 financial crisis

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