Category: Demand

Too many houses: Part 1, the un-growing city

12 May, 2008 (08:37) | Demand, Demographics, Local issues, Real estate taxes, Slums | No comments

 
A town is a business that sells quality of life and competes with other towns to attract real estate tax payers.  It spends its revenue on infrastructure that enhances quality of life and enables it to attract more workers and real estate tax payers.  Some towns are so attractive, relative to their rural competition, that […]

Where the buffalo home?

7 March, 2008 (11:56) | Demand, Demographics, Markets, US News, Urbanization | No comments

As urbanization remakes the global south, it’s also operating much closer to home, and though Americans are much better equipped to cope with them, the changes are no less profound. 
 

 
As highlighted in this article from The Economist, America’s northern center – the Mississippi and Missouri drainage basins – is slowly or rapidly depopulating, except […]