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There was no boom in construction of new homes or in home sizes
By artappraiser on Mon, 09/19/2011 - 10:42pm |By Matthew Yglesias, Thinkprogress.org, September 19, 2011
I wrote yesterday that there was no particular boom in construction of new homes during the “housing boom” of the aughts. This prompted several correspondents to write that their may not have been an unprecedented boom in new starts, but I need to consider the boom in home sizes. Again, though, while home sizes certainly increased they didn’t increase at any kind of unusual rate. The Census Bureau has convenient data (PDF) going back to the 1970s:.....
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