Millennials and Housing Markets: Case Studies From Houston and Phoenix
The "Cementing Millennials Downtown: Expressions and Impact" [pdf] report, published by the Kinder Institute for Urban Research at Rice University, analyzed date from the U.S. Census, regional media, and interviews with 22 experts involved in Phoenix and Houston’s downtown housing markets to create a portrait of the Millennial-focused real estate market in the two Sun Belt cities.
Among the findings described in a blog post sharing news of the working paper: differences in housing choices between age groups within the Millennial generation, Millennial preferences in design features, the migration of urban building styles to suburban locations, and the need to further refine building and planning processes to keep up with the shifting market demands driven by the Millennial generation.
Topics
- The Deliberate Segregation of U.S. Cities, as Evidenced by Freeway Congestion
- A Retiring Dean Considers the Changing Responsibilities of Planners
- Light Rail to Be Extended East of Los Angeles Again
- Pop Quiz: Cities and Obscure World Records
- Shared Mobility Subsidies Dry Up, Revealing the Industry’s Economic Realities
- Voters Will Decide on $3.5 Billion Transit Funding Bond in Houston
- New D.C. Development Guidelines Require More Consideration of Walkability
- Columbia River Crossing Project Officially Back From the Dead
- Gentrification and Race in the San Francisco Bay Area
- Rezoning for Larger Homes in a New York City Single-Family Neighborhood
- As Housing Units Multiply, Local Businesses Struggle to Hang On in Downtown Oakland
- 'Housing Twitter' and the Great Debate
- Good and Bad News in California's Greenhouse Gas Emission Inventory
- Oil and Water: Ride-Hailing and Airport Traffic
- New Landscape Architecture Prize the First of its Kind
- Train Travel Gains Popularity as 'Flight Shame' Trends in Europe
- New Paper: Exclusionary Is a National Problem in Need of Federal Action
- A Comedian's Brutal Takedown of Public Transportation's Failures
- Editorial: Pittsburgh Fails to Provide Adequate Parking Around Downtown
- School Playgrounds to Parks
