Thursday, August 31, 2006

What is a "Land of Opportunity?"

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I just heard Clive Crook on NPR describing new research that shows that by one measure, the United States falls behind Finland, Sweden and F...
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Wednesday, August 30, 2006

Assessment of Education

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My colleague Mary Gowan is passionate about the importance of assessment in eduction. Derek Bok, in Our Underachieving Colleges , articula...

Greenstreet Advisors' Panel on Real Estate Markets

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There is a good discussion at http://www.greenstreetadvisors.com/RE_portfolio.html. The key takeaway is that one can be bullish on Texas and...
Tuesday, August 29, 2006

Will the Housing Slump create a recession?

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NYU Professor and Guru Noriel Roubini is arguing that it will--that the housing market is about to crash (especially in coastal cities, alth...

Where most affordable housing comes from--Old Houses

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Sarah Kunkleman, who is Assistant Director for Communications in my school, asked me a good question today: if New Orleans were rebuilt, whe...
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Urban Sprawl (Part 2)

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Reasons 5 through 9: V. GOVERNMENT SERVICES Economist Charles Tiebout pioneered the idea that local units of government compete with each ot...
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Monday, August 28, 2006

Katrina

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I watched good chunks of Spike Lee's HBO film on Katrina last week. Like the rest of Lee's work, the film is brilliant, if frustrat...
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Urban Sprawl

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An easy culprit to pick on for some of our urban ills is sprawl. This is the beginning of something I wrote that was printed in the Univers...
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Sunday, August 27, 2006

Steve Malpezzi and I wrote a Book

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See http://www.urban.org/pubs/housing_primer/
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Grocery Stores in the Inner City

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Tim Noah's most recent Slate Column--http://www.slate.com/id/2148038/?nav=fix--is really good. But while he is surely correct that the ...
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Zillow Rules

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I am very fond of Zillow (www.zillow.com), a site that provides value estimates for houses around the country. It combines real estate voye...
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Was there a housing bubble? Is it deflating?

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The housing market has finished a remarkable run of price increases and construction spending. Inflation-adjusted national price growth has...
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Saturday, August 26, 2006

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Today I begin a blog on real estate and urban economics. Tomorrow I will discuss whether there was a housing bubble, and if so, whether it ...
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