According to a Sept. 29 story by Bloomberg News, which you can read here, officials with the National Association of Home Builders are asking members of Congress to pass a $15,000 tax credit for all homebuyers. This, officials with the trade association hope, will entice consumers to purchase homes.

It seems that many real estate professionals are still unwilling to face the truth that the housing market still stinks.

I’ve criticized the major real estate associations in the past for spinning bad real estate news. The associations have blamed the media for making the housing crisis seem worse than it is. They’ve claimed that the current real estate slump is just a natural correction. And they’ve spent months predicting that we’ve finally reached the bottom of the market.

In what should come as a surprise to no one, the sales of new homes dropped once again this May.

The National Association of Realtors yesterday released its latest report of housing sales across the country. To no one’s surprise, the numbers remained rather dismal.