Source: https://ggwash.org In “The Great American Single-Family Home Problem,” New York Times reporter Conor Dougherty drives home the point that the high cost of housing in America’s expensive coastal cities can be addressed by densifying the suburban landscape. At first glance this may seem obvious; combatting price appreciation calls for building more homes, and … [Read more...]
BuildZoom Research: A Year in Review
As 2017 comes to an end, we decided to round up some of our favorite studies and reports from the past year. We use public data as well as data from BuildZoom’s national building permit database to better understand the construction market, and this year our work fell into two broad categories: Research concerning urban growth and housing affordability, and how they … [Read more...]