Suburbs Outstrip Cities in Population Growth

According to a recent Urban Land Institute Study referenced in a brief article in the Wall Street Journal on December 3, 2016, areas that surround downtowns account for more growth in the largest metropolitan areas of the United States. The statistics revealed by the recent Urban Land Institute report summarized in this stand to reason. Only a minority of households can afford housing that costs more in the cities. And what the median cost differences cited in this short piece do not reveal is that in the cities you pay much more to get much less.

H. Pike Oliver

Born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area, H. Pike Oliver has worked on real estate development strategies and master-planned communities since the early 1970s, including nearly eight years at the Irvine Company. He resided in the City of Irvine for five years in the 1980s and nine years in the 1990s.

As the founder and sole proprietor of URBANEXUS, Oliver works on advancing equitable and sustainable real estate development and natural lands management. He is also an affiliate instructor at the Runstad Department of Real Estate at the University of Washington.

Early in his career, Oliver worked for public agencies, including the California Governor’s Office of Planning and Research where he was a principal contributor to An Urban Strategy for California. Prior to relocating to Seattle in 2013, Oliver taught real estate development at Cornell University and directed the undergraduate program in urban and regional studies. He is a member of the Urban Land Institute, the American Planning Association and a founder and emeritus member of the California Planning Roundtable.

Oliver is a graduate of the urban studies and planning program at San Francisco State University and earned a master’s degree in urban planning at UCLA.

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