Author – The Durango Herald

Bureaucracy can impact home prices

Rising home prices are a signal to builders: As housing gets more expensive, it’s time to create more of it. Then as new buildings rise, the competition for scarce housing falls. And that ke...

DATE: Dec 4, 2016 | CATEGORY: Business

‘Granny flats’ add housing, but there’s no legal shelter

LOS ANGELES – In the new home Julia Coffee designed for herself, handpicking the tiles and the flooring and the red front door, the microwave doesn’t work. Neither does the dishwasher, the ...

DATE: Sep 3, 2016 | CATEGORY: Business

Why do bike lanes anger some people?

Infrastructure seems to favor the privileged

DATE: Jan 16, 2016 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Apartment construction is up, but they being built for the wealthy

Last year in America, the median asking rent for a newly built apartment was an astonishing $1,372 a month. That’s about 50 percent more than the typical rent nationwide. It marked a dramati...

DATE: Dec 26, 2015 | CATEGORY: Business

Fewer Americans are on the move

Number of people who relocate is half what it was 65 years ago

DATE: Nov 13, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Trump empire had less luxurious beginning

Trump Village, unlike every other property that famously bears that brand, was not named by – or for – the presidential candidate currently upending the Republican Party. The Cone...

DATE: Aug 22, 2015 | CATEGORY: Business

A fight to allow sleeping outside

Government says ban is unconstitutional

DATE: Aug 13, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

As America has grown, so have our homes

WASHINGTON – The single-family home in America has evolved in one particularly remarkable way: It has gotten bigger and bigger and bigger. New homes built today are about a thousand square f...

DATE: Aug 8, 2015 | CATEGORY: Business

Rental market is changing across U.S.

WASHINGTON – The majority of American households still own their homes, a fact that will remain true as far into the future as demographers and economists can see. But the balance of homeown...

DATE: Jul 18, 2015 | CATEGORY: Business

Long-awaited rules aim to strengthen housing act

CHICAGO – When the Fair Housing Act was passed in 1968, it barred the outright racial discrimination that was then routine. It also required the government to go one step further: to activel...

DATE: Jul 11, 2015 | CATEGORY: Business

Homeownership rate expected to keep falling

WASHINGTON – The homeownership rate in the U.S. has been tumbling since the height of the housing boom. Fewer people own their homes – because foreclosures claimed them or because the housin...

DATE: Jul 4, 2015 | CATEGORY: Business

Low-income housing isn’t just about affordability

WASHINGTON – Earlier this month, city supervisors in San Francisco considered an emergency 45-day moratorium on the construction of new market-rate housing in the Mission district so that th...

DATE: Jun 13, 2015 | CATEGORY: Business