The suburbs aren’t saving you any longer. For decades, the move to the suburbs was New York’s great pressure release valve. Ditch the 500-square-foot apartment, grab a backyard, cut your monthly nut ...

To some, the suburbs are the ultimate dream. Peaceful streets, good schools, and a little space to call your own. But others feel living in the 'burbs is a hard no. They wouldn’t trade their apartment ...

The American dream used to be owning a home — now it's just finding one to rent. A shift is underway in American suburbs, one that shows just how out of reach homeownership has become for a growing ...

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Reader, I have a confession to make: I’m from Vancouver. Four years into my nearly 20 living in Portland, my residency was officiated at the now-defunct Hamburger Mary’s in Old Town. The host asked if ...

As the cost of homeownership soars across the country, renting has emerged as an increasingly popular alternative, and not just in cities, but in suburbs, too. An analysis of Census data by ...

A major change is underway in where and how we are choosing to live. In 2011, for the first time in nearly a hundred years, the rate of urban population growth outpaced suburban growth, reversing a ...

By Jesse Tollison, Transwestern When analyzing the Minneapolis-St. Paul (MSP) metro area, urbanicity plays a deep role in understanding the opportunities for making a significant impact and profit in ...

Soon after World War II, partly in response to a serious housing shortage in the cities, Catholics joined millions of other Americans—Jews, Protestants of various denominations, nonbelievers—in ...