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What's Happening to Real Estate in New Orleans?

Those of us involved in building things - planners, city governments, developers and architects and designers - need to advocate to fundamentally change they physical framework of daily commerce, and we need the support of the citizens to do so.

Developer Guideben allenApril 3, 2024urban development, retail vacancies, new orleans, new orleans neighborhoods, construction, real estate, new orleans real estate, downtown new orleans, urban planning, urban environment, commerce, city framework, housing demand, housing issues, architecture, communities

Scaling Down Development

There are a lot of problems with our current approach to residential development. For something in such perpetual demand, it's amazing that the market has not been able to figure out a good way to supply it. We need quality housing in large quantities. Note, that adjective: quality. As we saw in 2006, housing built with no attention to quality or sustainability of place is not truly in demand; it created a valueless bubble that then collapsed.

Sustainability, Developer Guideben allenMarch 20, 2018missing middle, scaling down development, residential development, architecture, creative problem solving, new orleans housing, housing issues, housing solutions, urban development, human scale, trends, housing bubble, sharing economy, house sharing, ikea