{
  "id": 182485,
  "title": "Home-Building Is Sputtering, but Lumber Prices Haven’t Been So High in Years",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/05/home-building-is-sputtering-but-lumber-prices-havent-been-so-high-in",
  "topic": "finance",
  "section": "Finance & Markets",
  "published": "2026-08-05T16:57:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "WSJ Markets",
    "slug": "wsj-markets",
    "url": "https://www.wsj.com/finance/commodities-futures/home-building-is-sputtering-but-lumber-prices-havent-been-so-high-in-years-a2ef1cf2?mod=rss_markets_main"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Steep duties on Canadian lumber, wildfires and sawmill closures have cut supply and pushed up prices.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
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  "coverage": {
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  },
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}