Archinect - News2024-05-07T06:01:27-04:00https://archinect.com/news/article/124912671/the-high-costs-of-high-urban-property-values
The high costs of high urban property values Amelia Taylor-Hochberg2015-04-09T19:18:00-04:00>2015-04-13T19:23:22-04:00
<img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/de/de01224b70fc0f8038a10e35abb52301?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><em><p>The costs of this misfiring property market are huge, mainly because of their effects on individuals. High housing prices force workers towards cheaper but less productive places. [...]
Tot up these costs in lost earnings and unrealised human potential, and the figures become dizzying. Lifting all the barriers to urban growth in America could raise the country’s GDP by between 6.5% and 13.5%, or by about $1 trillion-2 trillion.</p></em><br /><br /><!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd">
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