Though the city is helping developers, she said, it is doing less for renters like her.

This information should help developers; they are able to start with the most or fewest hits, depending on their strategy.

He said his group's role was to help private developers with design and planning and to grant seed money.

"Architects create monuments to their egos or to help developers," he went on.

This is, in short, a raid on national resources aimed at helping private developers.

"And there are a few thousand people at Microsoft whose job it is to help developers."

He said the problems in the credit markets actually helped established developers like himself, who can finance their own projects if necessary.

Their entire focus has always been to help developers.

So no open source libraries are going to be floating out there to help developers along.

Lower interest costs should help builders and developers, but the trend of declining rates has not revived construction up to now.