Factory-Made, Steel Lustron Homes

Mark Dent writes about the all-steel, factory-made Lustron homes which required more capital than the company had amassed.

-DD

Starting With an Incomplete Home

Ariana Zilliacus writes about the architectual firm Elemental , which builds incomplete homes based on the concept of John F.C. Turner. Contractors build the hard half of the house, installing plumbing and electric. These homes are then finished by the their residents

-DD

Reducing Homelessness

Jon Henley provides an example of a city which has cut homelessness: Helsinki .

-DD

Accomodating the Homeless

John Henley shares a successful effort to create community and reduce homelessness in Finland.

This is a gripping endorsement of a program that successfully eliminated people sleeping outside in winter, that is, "rough sleeping." A gripe I have with this article is that writing to the heart leaves the reader with insufficient statistical data on costs and benefits, something a debater would want to know.

-DD

U.S. Housing Market Statistics

Renee Lightner, Andrew Van Dam and Nick Timiraos have developed charts showing U.S. housing market historical statistics.

This is an article from a series of charts published by the Wall Street Journal.

-DD