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U.S. suburbs really began to take off in the early 1950s -- right around the time when credit cards were mass distributed, allowing homeowners to get bigger places and buy things like televisions,...
Living in a major city comes with many perks, such as easy access to amenities and a wide variety of entertainment options. But it also comes with a high sticker price -- and living in the country ...
Small apartments in New York City, San Francisco and Chicago, Seattle and Boston are being built to appeal to millennials who prefer urban areas but might not be able to afford much space. One ...
To qualify as an exurb in the Finding Exurbia report, a census tract must meet three criteria: . Economic connection to a large metropolis. Low housing density: bottom third of census tracts with regard to housing density.
The New York metropolitan area, broadly referred to as the Tri-State area and often also called Greater New York, is the largest metropolitan economy in the world, with a gross metropolitan product of over US$2.5 trillion, [10] and the largest metropolitan area in the world by urban landmass, [11] [12] [13] encompassing 4,669.0 sq mi (12,093 km ...
The New York State Office for People With Developmental Disabilities (OPWDD) is an executive agency in the state of New York, whose mission is to provide services and conduct research for those with intellectual disabilities and developmental disabilities (I/DD). It is one of New York State’s largest agencies, with a mandate to provide ...
As we covered in our report last month on the Best Suburbs in America, there are a lot of reasons people choose to move from larger cities into surrounding metro areas—or avoid large metros ...
The crisis has been particularly hard on immigrants, people of color, and lower-income families who became north suburban homeowners in the last two decades. More than 14,500 homes were foreclosed in Chicago's northern suburbs between 2005 and 2013, according to an Open Communities' analysis of Woodstock Institute foreclosure filings data. [10]