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Future of Never Sold Housing and some underlying dynamics behind the financial crisis

It looks now, about mid-day Pacific time on September 25 that a deal is either concluded or nearly so for Washington DC to provide the $700 billion or more in relief that Wall Street apparently needs to sustain liquidity and keep the economy going. Arguments still rage about whether this is a good idea, a [...]

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Future of Urban Living and Building – update

In a blog post last week we discussed an innovation in urban housing, and presented a video interview and tour. The full tour, in 4 video episodes, is now available. The video series can also be seen at YouTube. Glen Hiemstra is a futurist speaker, consultant, blogger, internet TV show host and founder of Futurist.com. [...]

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Future of Sustainable Affordable Housing – A Prototype

The future of housing in the United States, and the world, is one of the most important issues we face. In the U.S. housing has been hit with a perfect storm: 1. Demographic changes including an older population, smaller households, and a younger population with differing values – all of which mean a mismatch between [...]

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Launch of Glen Hiemstra’s Quarterly Forecast

This week we launch a new series, in which Glen Hiemstra will present a “quarterly forecast.” This is intended to compliment and extend the annual Outlook. The first is for Q3 2008. The quarterly forecasts will be published in the Articles collection on the site. We’ll send notices to those who have signed up for [...]

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Future of Housing

The blog today is about the future of housing in America. I have just finished a keynote speech to the annual Washington Housing Conference, in Spokane, Washington. The speech is viewable online in WMV at TVW. The PowerPoint slide program is here: The Future of Housing and the Mortgage Crisis view presentation (tags: hiemstra futurist [...]

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