Quality-oriented home building no longer begins and ends with builders.
Homeowners expect perfect homes. Trades deliver less-than-perfect quality.
Smart Code, due out this spring from Duany Plater-Zyberk & Co. and Municipal Code Corp., will provide a basis from which smarter zoning codes can be adopted by local officials.
The most popular discussion today about home prices is one-dimensional and incomplete for it focuses only on demand.
During the 15 months representing the height of the current home building boom, 1.9 million U.S. housing units were added, mostly in the South and West.
I know the kindness, generosity and caring spirit of this industry and the willingness of its people to take action. I have experienced it firsthand.
During the mid-1990s, when job growth in Atlanta ran at a 100,000 annual clip, the supply of single-family lots in the 15-county region flowed like water.
