AdvertisementWill A Fed Interest Rate Hike Slow The Housing Recovery?December 15, 2015Chris ArnoldfacebookEmailDe Desharnais, a homebuilder and real estate agent in Nashua, N.H., stands in front of a house her company is constructing. She says her company had 32 employees at the height of the housing boom, and now only has six despite the industry's gradual recovery. (NPR)