Does anyone really think about the relationship a city has to its surrounding metro area? It means a lot more than you might think. read more »
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City Suburb Relationships — Where the Midwest is Worst
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Rise of Luxury Urbanity as a System: Sydney CBD
In 1971, after a lifetime researching and explaining the Central Business District, American geographer Raymond Murphy gathered his knowledge together in The Central Business District: A Study in Urban Geography. read more »
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The Puzzle of Generational Politics
Age is a big deal. We saw just how big a deal it is from the deterioration of President Biden evident during the recent debate with Donald Trump. There’s a growing sense that the world is being run by a gerontocracy read more »
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Home Ownership by Type of Residential Building
The latest American Community Survey data (2022) indicates that higher density condo living is strongly correlated with lower rates of home ownership than among detached or attached houses. The table below provides US data as well as data for the 56 major metropolitan areas by residential building density.
National Home Ownership by Type of Residential Building: Overall, 65.2% of US households owned their own homes read more »
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The Road to Neo-Feudalism
For middle- and working-class people across the developed world, home ownership has served as a primary driver of upward mobility. But in a growing number of places, this aspiration is being systematically undermined read more »
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Are Progressives to Blame for the Worsening Housing Crisis?
In recent years, housing has emerged as arguably the key driver of class divisions in the Western world. For decades, working- and middle-class people could dream reasonably about buying a house read more »
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Demographia International Housing Affordability – 2024 Edition Released
Demographia International Housing Affordability assesses housing affordability in 94 major markets across eight nations (Australia, Canada, China, Ireland, New Zealand, Singapore, United Kingdom and the, United States). read more »
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Latinos and the California Housing Crisis
My extended family spans from third to seventh generation Mexican immigrants. Most of us expect to work hard, provide for our families, and hope our children do better than we did. read more »
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Rethinking the Housing Affordability Crisis, Part 3
Back in 2018, I attended and participated in an event called “Tools Toward Market Restoration”, hosted by the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago. read more »
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Americans Moving to More Affordable Areas
In recent years, driven by the rising cost of living and the remote work revolution, Americans have been moving to more affordable housing markets. This is evident in an analysis of American Community Survey data gathered over five years (2018 to 2022).
Housing Affordability and Net Domestic Migration: The Nexus read more »
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