Affordable housing and the World Cup (archived: 2019)
We must see affordable housing not as charity but as investment in our nation’s future, in its capacity to assimilate and uplift and transform.
Are “New Villages” next (no longer available)? Sounds like a rehashing of New Urbanism to me. Without efficient and affordable transit, this will remain a pie in the sky dream for our region.
The Eastern Connector moves along (archived: 2007) – at a pace matched only by a wounded snail. More on this (and other) road at CvilleTomorrow (no longer available).
Might a similar ‘graph (archived: 2022) be written about the Central Virginia market?
In some cases, short-term investors are lowering prices, worried about facing rising mortgage costs if they can’t flip properties quickly. … “The slowdown is occurring as developers put a growing volume of new units on the market.” …
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