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Entries Tagged as 'Housing'

Wednesday, June 11th, 2008

Smurf village on steroids

Via Matt Y., “The American Dream News” responds to Christopher Leinberger, an academic who (in The Atlantic, among other places) has predicted the death of the suburbs; AmDreamNews ridicules this as (might) be apropos, but goes a little bit too far, I think, in proclaiming that “we will get over the high prices of energy, […]

Tuesday, June 10th, 2008

A smaller American dream

She muttered derisively as she perused the Sunday paper. Amazingly, she wasn’t even reading my column.
Rather, she was looking through the 2008 Parade of Homes guidebook, in which the lowest-priced single-family home this year cost $281,076. The lowest-priced townhome, this year, was $169,900.
“Who’s buying these things?” she asked as she looked at the “middle of […]

Wednesday, September 5th, 2007

McApartments

Hmmm. And how long is it before something like this happens here? People in Manheim Township in particular would just get the vapors:
But in North Brentwood and other small municipalities in northern Prince George’s County, mansionization comes with a twist: Some of the new homes, neighbors and town leaders say, are being used as boardinghouses […]