Burgh Diaspora

Most conversations about housing affordability define demand in terms of population change, but income is a far better measure.

Will a lack of affordable housing hinder the growth of creative start-ups?

You might have fantasized before about making big money and living large in a place where costs are low, but what happens when things work the other way around?

Don't take population numbers at face value.

Don't judge a metro or a nation-state by its population numbers.

Seattle is leading the way in the micro-housing movement as an affordable alternative to high-cost city living.

Why shouldn't distant locales tied to jobs in the urban core count in a housing expenditure study?

Are technology companies willing to spend more for expensive urban real estate in order to attract cheaper talent?

Why do Hispanics die at slower rates than non-Hispanic whites in the United States?

Why are people from all over the world watching tiny Rochester, Minnesota?

Global money follows transit access.

Death, as millennials have taught us, is life in the suburbs.

Does supply or demand better map where the money is flowing?

Japanese companies are bringing jobs to Alabama—and it's all too good to be true.

On Tony Hsieh and the pseudoscience of "collisions."

The poor, whom we expect to move in order to improve, tend to stay put.

Oregon's largest city is full of overeducated and underemployed young people.

Build an emerald city. Attract the best and brightest with glorious amenities. They will come and do nothing.

The Harlem Renaissance wasn't a place, but an era of migration. It would have happened even without New York City.

We know that people make places, but does it also work the other way?

Long-distance migration is the exception.

How do large dense cities foment innovation? The conventional wisdom on the subject is speculative at best.

People bring their ideas with them when they move from place to place.

Migration, regardless of race, ethnicity, gender, or sexuality (not to mention class), can be a poverty-buster.