Re: Housing starts a.k.a. land attrition

"George Conklin" <nil@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> "Enough Already" <enough_already@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> Does anyone think about how much land gets covered by blessed housing
>> starts each year?

In total, the US housing accounts for about 6% of total land area.

>  This includes interstitial land in urbanized areas,
>> gross urban expansion i.e. sprawl, agricultural land like California's
>> increasingly-paved Central Valley, and pristine land on the edges of
>> designated wilderness.

See above.

>   Well, with half our counties losing population, why not worry about
> depopulation for a change?
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What fun is that? You can't generate incredible hysterics from that!

:~)