Posts Tagged ‘housing’
Boulder Residential Construction Bounces Back … Sort of
The Great Recession of 2008 to 2010 may now be over, at least according to the measurements used by economists. Boulder’s economy was affected but not as badly as that in many other locales. The unemployment rate remained well below the state and [...]
Atlantic | Home Prices May Drop Another 25%
With all the talk of the awful sales numbers for both existing and new homes in July, there was one small kernel of seeming good news: existing home prices rose slightly. The national median home price actually increased by 0.7% last month [...]
Wired Science | The Psychology of Nature
In the late 1990s, Frances Kuo, director of the Landscape and Human Health Laboratory at the University of Illinois, began interviewing female residents in the Robert Taylor Homes, a massive housing project on the South Side of Chicago. Kuo and her [...]
CNBC | Real Estate & the Economy: Death of the ‘McMansion’
They’ve been called McMansions, Starter Castles, Garage Mahals and Faux Chateaus but here’s the latest thing you can call them — History. In the past few years, there have been an increasing number of references made to the “McMansion [...]
Recession, Lending Take a Toll on Development in Boulder
Construction of new for-sale housing declined during the first half of 2010, reflecting the difficulty in obtaining financing and the lingering effects of the recession. Boulder’s economy was much more resilient than that on the national level but [...]
WaPo | How much bigger are U.S. homes?
The Census Bureau keeps information (PDF) on the median square footage of new homes, which you can divide by average household size to get average space per person. The EU, by contrast, counts (PDF) "useful living space," of which there will [...]
Boulder Tops the Century Mark
After 150 years, the population of the City of Boulder has finally surpassed one hundred thousand, according to a recent estimate by the U. S. Census Bureau. The report indicated that the city’s growth rate since 2000 was 6 percent, well below the [...]
NYT | When Less Was More
We tend to think of the decades immediately following World War II as a time of exuberance and growth, with soldiers returning home by the millions, going off to college on the G.I. Bill and lining up at the marriage bureaus. But when it came [...]
