Wendell Cox

6 days ago | newgeography.com | Joel Kotkin |Wendell Cox

This is the second of a two-part series on the global housing crisis. Read the first part here. The affordable housing crisis in America and many other advanced countries keeps getting worse because it is largely dominated by the wrong voices talking about the wrong places.

1 week ago | newgeography.com | Joel Kotkin |Wendell Cox

Next to inflation, Americans ranked housing as their top financial worry in a Gallup survey last May. It’s only gotten worse. January home sales were down 5% from last year’s dismal numbers. Record numbers of first-time buyers are stuck on the sidelines as housing affordability stands at the lowest level ever recorded, while one in three Americans now spend over 30% of their income on mortgage or rent.

1 week ago | news-journal.com | Joel Kotkin |Wendell Cox

This is the second of a two-part series on the global housing crisis. Read the first installment here. The affordable housing crisis in America and many other advanced countries keeps getting worse because it is largely dominated by the wrong voices talking about the wrong places.

1 week ago | theohiopressnetwork.com | Joel Kotkin |Wendell Cox

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1 week ago | etxview.com | Joel Kotkin |Wendell Cox

The first in a two-part series on the global housing crisis. Next to inflation, Americans ranked housing as their top financial worry in a Gallup survey last May. It’s only gotten worse. January home sales were down 5% from last year’s dismal numbers. Record numbers of first-time buyers are stuck on the sidelines as housing affordability stands at the lowest level ever recorded, while one in three Americans now spend over 30% of their income on mortgage or rent.