Date: October 24th, 2006

The 50-year trends in affordable housing: Part 2, the market, financial

24 October, 2006 (09:20) | Uncategorized |

 

[Continued from yesterday’s Part 1.]

Yesterday we covered four fifty-year trends:

Cities move from manufacturing to information and knowledge work.
Land use rules proliferate and development becomes more protracted.
Houses become larger, lots become smaller.
Housing costs more as a percentage of income.

These four physical-market trends stimulated responses in the capital and financial markets:

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