What do you see in your housing market this weekend? Overbuilding? "The Home Builders Association of Fort Wayne has decided to skip the organization’s traditional Parade of Homes this fall. The HBA couldn’t get a minimum of six builders to commit to any one location. Builders complained 'they already had enough inventory on the market; they didn’t need more,' said Matt Lancia, the association’s president."

Cheaper materials? "The slump in the housing market is starting to hurt to families in southern Douglas County. Swanson Group has closed its mills in several Oregon communities for the next couple weeks. 'Ya know, prices today are at levels that they're lower than the levels that I saw when I joined this company in 1977. We haven't seen ‘em this low frankly since the early 80's and that's unadjusted for inflation,' said CEO Steve Swanson."

"'My mom was just getting ready to buy a house and she's not sure what she's gonna do now. My husband and I have four little ones at home so it's gonna be a big impact,' said Gina Watson. Watson's husband was among the workers that were laid off."

Related fallout? "Tallahassee, Pasco school superintendent Heather Fiorentino is a realist, as she made perfectly clear to the School Board on Tuesday during a meeting and workshop where money became a pivotal issue. 'It is going to be bad,' Fiorentino told the board."

"Even hot dogs are under scrutiny. Food and nutrition director Rick Kurtz told the board of plans to switch from hot dogs to turkey franks to save $25,000 through the rest of the year."

Lower prices? "The housing slump does not discriminate on the basis of wealth with property values falling in parts of the upscale Hamptons, the New York Post said Friday. The median price of a single-family home in East Hampton, N.Y., has fallen below $1 million, the report said."

"The neighborhood of posh, and really posh, beach property homes dropped 20.4 percent from a median price of $1.225 million a year ago to the relatively there-goes-the-neighborhood price of $975,000. 'It's really the $2-million-to-$3-million market, and the under-$800,000 houses, that are getting hit the hardest,' one realtor said."

Or foreclosures. "The numbers are spiraling out of control and Connecticut is taking a heavy toll. People are losing their homes, because they can't pay the mortgage. 'I love my house, I want my house, I want to keep it,' Mary Henderson of West Haven said. 'The mortgage started at 139 and I end up now paying $228,000 and I don't understand how we got to this point.'"

"'I just wanted a piece of the American dream, you see what I'm saying, cause I worked,' Henderson said. 'I worked, I earned it.'"

"'Every counselor has a box of kleenex on their desks,' Bridget Russell of Neighborhood Housing Service said."