• Shift to the suburbs not your grandfather’s sprawl

    Core cities are losing population to the suburbs, but the 2020s will not repeat the last half of the 20th Century. The suburbs are bound to urbanize.
    News reports over the past year have indicated that sprawl is returning with a vengeance in the 2020s. The latest article to make the claim is “ How the pandemic supercharged sprawl ,” in Bloomberg News . There is little doubt of movement out of core cities since early 2020. The extent is of the...Read more

  • Small cities and towns: On the verge of a renaissance?

    Market and demographic trends could lead to revival of smaller American communities, according to a report.
    Economic and demographic trends may help small cities and towns to make a comeback this decade, according to a recent article that quotes Ann Daigle, a new urbanist planner and urban designer. Although some prominent economists and thinkers such as Paul Krugman are pessimistic of the prospects of...Read more

  • How suburbs will change after COVID

    As people move out of city centers into suburbs, keys policy changes and trends could help to make suburbs more walkable and affordable, according to panelists at a National Press Foundation event.
    “We certainly have quite a bit of anecdotal evidence” on people moving out of city centers to the suburbs, reports Richard Fry of the Pew Research Center, a panelist on a recent National Press Foundation webinar, The Suburbs After COVID . Solid numbers from the US Census Bureau won’t emerge until...Read more

  • Great Senior Short Sale threatens housing market

    Arthur C. Nelson, of the University of Arizona, reports that preference for walkable communities and changing demographic needs will impact large-lot single-family housing. Changes in government policy are needed to avert a crisis.
    A growing mismatch between America’s housing supply and changing demographics could trap millions of senior citizens in unwanted houses, according to a report by University of Arizona researcher Arthur C. Nelson. The mismatch is brought on by an excess of large-lot single-family houses and a...Read more