Housing Chart Alex 2

Chart of the Day: Housing Starts in Twin Cities Metro, 2001 – 2019

Here are two charts put together by streets.mn’s dutiful Philadelphia correspondent, Alex Schieferdecker. He’s been paying close attention to the housing data over the last few years, especially tracking the percentage multi-family homes and the percentage of homes located within the different counties.

As you can see, and much to Schieferdecker’s pleasure, multi-family housing is now outpacing detached housing in the Twin Cities. (That’s good because it is denser, which is good for quite a few reasons.)

Enjoy!

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Bill Lindeke

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Bill Lindeke has writing blogging about sidewalks and cities since 2005, ever since he read Jane Jacobs. He is a lecturer in Urban Studies at the University of Minnesota Geography Department, the Cityscape columnist at Minnpost, and has written multiple books on local urban history. He was born in Minneapolis, but has spent most of his time in St Paul. Check out Twitter @BillLindeke or on Facebook.