ArchivesTag : housing

Affordable Energy Efficient Housing for Seniors – A Future Trend

Few issues shaping the future stand out in the U.S. more than the future of housing. We tend to think just of the mortgage meltdown of the past three years when considering housing. No real solutions have appeared yet to really address this problem. But there are three additional forces, beyond the mortgage mess, that [...]

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What is Smart Growth

January was the hottest month on record (going back to 1880) in Seattle, some 7 degrees F above normal You can see the evidence in this photo of my Iris’s that I just took. Kind of messes up the notion that because it was cold on the East Coast this year that global warming must [...]

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Affordable Housing and the Future

This Friday, June 12, I have the opportunity to address a conference on Affordable Housing, at the Everett Washington Events Center. There is still time to register. As you may know I have been speaking about the future of housing, and community design, for some time, and particularly since September 2007 when I made a [...]

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Future Tech for Livable Community and Homes

Archi-Tech Magazine has a nice feature on “Future Tech” in our buildings and homes and neighborhoods, based on some interviews with futurists, including me. ARCHI-TECH asked several futurists and forward-thinking designers to tell us which technologies and trends are most likely to have a significant effect on the building industry in the future, both short [...]

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Falling Home Prices in U.S. – How far?

In the fall of 2007 I spoke to a housing conference, and argued that the issue about to confront real estate in the United States was not so much the sub-prime mortgage debt crisis, though that was going to be huge. Rather, I suspected, the underlying issue is the severe mismatch between how much houses [...]

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Future of Housing

The future of housing in this economy is on everyone’s mind. Last week the opportunity to present a keynote speech to the annual Colorado Housing Conference gave me a chance to re-visit this topic. The conference is one that focuses especially on policy related to developing affordable housing. My task was to broaden the scope [...]

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Featured Videos

The Future. You have to see it to believe it. On this page you will find recent videos of Glen speaking and being interviewed, videos that we produce, and other interesting videos about the future that I think are timely or worth highlighting in some way. Featured Video: Glen Hiemstra’s New Keynote Sample Video In [...]

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