Date: February 25th, 2008

The next slum? No such luck, Part 1

25 February, 2008 (10:30) | Cities, Markets, Subprime, US News | No comments

Recently the Atlantic monthly published an essay in wish-fulfillment schadenfreude,
 

You mean no AHI blog posts for me?
 
“The Next Slum?” whose premise — that McMansion buyers get their bad-taste comeuppance — doubtless appealed to the editors’ sensibilities. 
 

The universal definition of a McMansion is a house noticeably larger than we’d want to live in
 
“The subprime [...]