Jeff Katz Quotations

Lack of affordable workforce housing creates quality-of-life issues. The people we want to help are the people who are your neighbors, people who work at the stores, at the coffee shops. They're teachers, nurses, police officers. One of the great thrills of my business is when I hand the keys to a first-time buyer and they walk into the place and it's theirs. I've had people kiss the walls.

We're working on solutions instead of just rehashing the problem.

The overall trend is that prices have flat-lined in the last three to four months because the (housing) inventory has increased. Supply is up, and demand has been relatively constant.

While unit demand is going up at roughly 50 percent, the bit demand, meaning the number of wafers we have to make, is going up at about 100 percent. I believe that's going to keep the shortage going at least through this year, and well into next year - possibly through all of next year.

The numbers can get skewed from month to month based on what happens to sell.

Each of those players bring skill and experience that should help us this season. We will count on them to give us an edge in play during transition play.

Nothing less than qualifying for the postseason will satisfy us. We have had disappointing endings the past two years when we just missed moving on.