The U.S. Housing Market: Two Worlds In One Country
The nation's housing market has created two very different economies in one country.
"While the housing boom has become the subject of daily conversations among the middle class and affluent in New York, San Francisco and Los Angeles, people in much of the country have little housing bounty to tap for home improvements, retirement or other needs. . . . From Fort Wayne to Rochester to Salt Lake City, the prices of typical homes across most of the country's vast middle have risen just ahead of inflation -- and more slowly than incomes. "
Thanks to Vanessa Kuehner
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Published on Wednesday, August 6, 2003 in
Topics
- Report: No City or State in the U.S. Has Enough Housing for Low-Income Residents
- Review: The Hudson Yards Mega-Development, Open to the Public Today
- Proposed Mega-Development Would Expand Chicago's Skyline
- It Takes a Fatality to Remove On-Street Parking
- 3D Printing Affordable Housing at Scale
- Home Builders Aren't Building the Smaller Homes the Market Wants
- Study: Density Can Impede Growth
- 'Urban Luxury' Housing Skyrockets in Texas and Beyond
- Many Norms, Few Plans: Urban Rubble Clearance in the Cities of the Global South
- Concrete’s Contribution to the Rise and Decline of Civilization
- 2018 Survey: Housing Production is Up Around the U.S.
- Transit Ridership Up in San Diego
- Dallas DOT Brings New Mobility Vision to the Region
- More States Look to Expand Tenant Protections
- Santa Monica Pedestrian Mall Wants People to Hang Out
- The Case for Fourplexes in Portland
- Survey Reveals the Market Footprint of Online Grocery Services
- New Approach for the Housing Authority of New Orleans Apparent in 600 New Units
- Scrutiny for HUD Secretary Ben Carson's Schedule
- Zoning Reform Gets Another Try as Massachusetts Wrestles With Housing Crunch
