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Why Did New Homes Stop Getting Bigger? (opens the original)
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The typical new American house peaked at 2,467 square feet in 2015. By 2025 it had shrunk to 2,142 square feet. Before that, new houses had grown for four decades, from 1,525 square feet in 1973. The strip at the top of the chart shows the median size of a new house; the colored bands below show the share of new single-family houses built each year in each size range.<a class="image-link image2" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!yBQW!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%
Blue Cities Are Dense Cities (opens the original)
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In their book ‘Abundance’, Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson argue that we have less—and more expensive—goods and services (especially housing) than we would if we regulated industry less. They blame ‘blue states’ in particular, citing the association between left-leaning cities, more regulation, less housing supply, and high prices.I think what Klein and T… Read more
Product Launch: Housing at Noon (opens the original)
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I’ve launched a new product called Housing at Noon. Every weekday, I survey the housing news, data, research, and online conversations from the previous 24 hours, then organize what matters into a handful of easy-to-read themes. I link to the original sources and add my own analysis, perspective, and relevant charts. It’s free.Sign up here.The housing conversation is scattered all over the place. A data point appears here, a piece of research there, followed by a useful observation on social med
Cities are for the Young (opens the original)
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Young adults have always been drawn to cities, and over the last 50 years they have become a much larger share of the people who live in them. Between 1970 and 2020, 25- to 34-year-olds’ share of residents within two miles of downtown in America’s 25 largest metros rose by 15 percentage points.If the share of young adults increased, another group had to decrease—it was children. Within two miles of downtown, they fell from about one in four residents (26%) to one in eight (12%). Older residents
Quality of Life Comes at a Cost (opens the original)
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The housing crisis is global. It is most acute in desirable cities that attract and produce highly skilled, high earning people. That’s my conclusion from juxtaposing the Monocle Magazine’s 2026 Quality of Life Survey—where they rank the top 20 cities in the world based on economic and cultural factors, from GDP to architecture—with Numbeo’s data on the cost of housing across major cities.The chart below plots ~150 large cities according
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