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Since 1988, Harvard's Joint Center for Housing Studies has published an annual report assessing the state of housing in the U.S. This year's analysis culls information from several sources, including the Census Bureau, the Department of Housing and Urban Development, the Bureau of Labor Statistics and the Bureau of Economic Analysis. The report strives to be a resource for policymakers and private citizens looking to buy, sell or rent. It reviews affordability concerns, explains how housing continues to affect the economy and cites factors that could drive growth in the future...
...ideas fueling HSR is that the U.S. in the 21st century has grown beyond a country of cities and suburbs to what urban-studies expert Richard Florida calls "mega-regions." Central Florida's I-4 Corridor, between Orlando and Tampa, is a prime example. Mega-regions "are natural economic agglomerations whose market potential can be harnessed if they're linked up by high-speed rail," says Florida, director of the Martin Prosperity Institute at the University of Toronto. "If there's any place in the world right now where this makes sense, it's the U.S. Cars and jets...
...neighbors for six years. An energetic advocate of sustainable, do-it-yourself living, Carpenter has raised (and slaughtered) chickens, ducks, geese, goats and even pigs in what was formerly a garbage-strewn lot next to her home. She recently published a memoir, Farm City: The Education of an Urban Farmer, and spoke with TIME about her unlikely adventure in living off the land...
Most of my neighbors are from cities in Vietnam, where people are actively urban farming. For them it's pretty normal, though at one point I had too many chickens and they sort of overran the neighborhood. A lot of the neighborhood kids are pretty excited to see farm animals, something they would never normally get to do. (Read "Urban Farming...
...what you're doing fuses the advantages of rural and urban living...