It’s naive to assume that existing housing stock sprang to life magically (We’re pleased to reprise this classic essay from Daniel Kay Hertz, long-time contributor to City Observatory, and now author of the newly released
The immaculate conception of your neighborhood Read Post »
Wide variations in regional home price patterns tell us a lot about housing markets and cities Yesterday, we looked at the path of inflation-adjusted home prices in the US. While much attention has been paid
Real home prices: A regional view Read Post »
Adjusted for inflation, US home prices are still lower than in 2006 For most US households, the home they own is their biggest financial asset. After the housing bust of 2007, when collectively about $7
The long tail of the housing bust Read Post »
What City Observatory did this week 1. If your corporate campus has 10,000 parking spaces, it isn’t really “walkable.” With great fanfare, American Airlines has announced its building a new corporate campus in Fort Worth.Â
The Week Observed, November 16, 2018 Read Post »
We can’t have empathy for those we can’t encounter due to the way our cities are built Editor’s Note: Last month, our friend Carol Coletta spoke to the Kinder Institute in Houston about the critical
You can’t feel ’em, if you can’t see ’em Read Post »
If so many people live in suburbs, it must be because that’s what they prefer, right? But the evidence is to the contrary. One of the chief arguments in favor of the suburbs is simply
The myth of revealed preference for suburbs Read Post »
