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Little pink houses shortage?

By Owen Paine on Friday November 20, 2009 10:45 AM

Nice graph, small calculation: annualized housing start rate since late Ike --

Population, 1959: 180 million

Population per unit under construction: 120

Population today: 300 million

Population per unit under construction: 600

Posted by Owen Paine on Friday November 20, 2009 10:45 AM |

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Michael Dawson:

This seems pretty crucial for my car-addiction book. What's the underlying data source?

Arigato, op-san.

Posted by Michael Dawson | November 20, 2009 9:02 PM

Posted on November 20, 2009 21:02

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