Housing
Florida Is the Nation's Housing Market
The state shows the depths of the continuing crisis, but also offers some insightful solutions.
That's Jed Kolko's take.
Kolko, a housing economist and co-author (with Edward Glaeser) of the uber-influential study "Consumer City," is now chief economist at Trulia, a real estate insights website. Kolko posits that the state of Florida is the perfect microcosm of the nation's ongoing housing problems, and that the GOP primary is bringing the issue into the political limelight – a place it is likely to occupy in the general election as well. (For a range of views on how to "fix" the housing problem, see this edition of The New York Times' Room for Debate).