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

On Sat, 29 Mar 2008 13:56:32 -0700, "Matt W. Barrow"
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>"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?
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>In total, the US housing accounts for about 6% of total land area.

IMO that is about an order of magnitude high.

-- Roy L