
National Links: ‘We Buy Houses’ Fails Everyone
This week: billboard bans in France, Chicago’s bus battery troubleshooting and how an Arizona town wound up waterless.
This week: billboard bans in France, Chicago’s bus battery troubleshooting and how an Arizona town wound up waterless.
As Minneapolis moves forward with an update to its Comprehensive Plan, there’s been some great discussion around how we accommodate a fast-growing population. As our city grows, it’s important to talk about how to make this a more equitable city for everyone who lives here, and all the shapes and sizes of new homes that […]
Here’s a chart from a must-read Jim Buchta article in this weekend’s Star Tribune, on the homeownership trends in the Twin Cities metro. Check it out: The piece includes a whole bunch of troublesome data from the Census Bureau, and caps it off with a few individual stories of people trying to buy homes. Here’s […]
There was a fascinating post the other day on Matthew Kahn’s excellent Environmental and Urban Economics blog that detailed some counter-intuitive data about racial inequality in the US. One of the charts seems fitting for this site: This is one of a few charts that Kahn uses to illustrate that, despite everything, the gap in racial equality […]
Here are two charts from a recent article in The Atlantic about changing rates of homeownership across different age cohorts and time periods: [US homeownership rate.] Of course, the tone of the Atlantic’s piece is that homeownership is automatically a good thing, suggesting that “the economy has a Gen-X problem” because they’re not buying homes. While […]