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Land Costs Make For High-Cost Housing Starts, Chester Smolski
Land Costs Make For High-Cost Housing Starts, Chester Smolski
Smolski Texts
"Here in the Northeast, where housing prices are among the highest in the nation, it is difficult to find measures to reduce the price of housing to make it more affordable. Even with talk of an impending recession, house prices have moderated only slightly, and the real estate business finds itself in a very troubled state."
Charting Migration And Miscalculation, Chester Smolski
Charting Migration And Miscalculation, Chester Smolski
Smolski Texts
"There was cause for celebration last March 6 at the Department of Commerce building in Washington, D.C. The achievement was the recording of 250 million on the bureau's "population odometer," a device which records the population of this nation at any moment.
Based upon average births, deaths, immigration and emigration, a number is added every 14 seconds to the odometer, for a daily increase of about 6300. It was expected that the population total of 250 million would be confirmed with the results of the April 1 census. But preliminary figures indicate that the country has not yet reached this …