Posted by Kaid Benfield in Environmental Justice , Living Sustainably , Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming
My wonky post continues . . . Yesterday I wrote about a remarkable, data-rich new study from the Urban Land Institute (in partnership with the Center for Neighborhood Technology and the Center for Housing Policy) analyzing the impact of location...continued→
Posted by Kaid Benfield in Environmental Justice , Living Sustainably
Warning: very wonky post coming up. Last year, I posted a couple of times (here and here) about how the costs of driving turn what one might think are affordable areas to live into expensive ones. The Center for...continued→
Posted by Kaid Benfield in Living Sustainably
I'm on a roll, thinking about how home prices interact with location. The evidence is just ever more clear that smart growth locations deliver more value to the homeowner or homebuyer than we may have previously understood. As I posted...continued→
Posted by Kaid Benfield in Living Sustainably
One of the reasons that homebuyers sometimes choose sprawl houses is that “you get more for your money” when you locate farther out of town. (Of course, the other side of that coin is that the market values close-in, convenient...continued→
