Oklahoma builders upbeat about downturn

 
BY RICHARD MIZE
Published: March 14, 2009

Comparisons of the current housing slowdown with the crash of the 1980s and early 1990s only go so far, which isn’t that far at all, said homebuilder Mark Dale, one of a relative few builders here who were in business then.

Then, the problems mainly were in Oklahoma and other oil-patch states "and the rest of the nation was insulated from it. This year, we’re in almost the exact opposite situation,&#...


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