Tag: USA

Affordable Cities

Top 5 Options in 2017

Where are the most affordable places to live in the U.S.? Demographia’s 13th Annual Affordability Survey brought to light a list of affordable markets in the U.S. based on their median multiple, a number obtained by dividing the median house price by the median household income. The Median Multiple is widely used for evaluating urban […]

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Affordable in America

Supply lacking, demand rising

The present is the most challenging time in 50 years for renting affordable and adequate housing. Historically low homeownership rates, the rising number of renters fueled by demographic and cultural shifts, increasing rents, a dearth of supply, growing construction costs, high levels of unemployment and underemployment and stagnant incomes have all converged to a critical […]

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Time for a Change?

Should the American time zone system be rethought?

When CNN listed time zone reduction on its 10 Ideas, readers like me smiled politely and continued to the next article. Big changes don’t happen often in our society and they certainly don’t happen quickly. Changing American time zones seems incredibly unlikely unless we’re convinced that it would make our lives exponentially better and, of […]