Emily Hamilton on the Current State of the U.S. Housing Market and Solutions for Reform
Macro Musings with David Beckworth
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Are We Still Not Making Any Progress on Home Building?
Housing starts are picking up, but i don't see any indications that home building is going to reach the level that it was at a few decades ago. Right now, about four units per 100 people is being permitted across the country as a whole. But if we look back at the sixties, seventies and eighties, that rate was commonly around seven units per 100 person.
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