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Cities
Infographic: Should You Rent or Buy a Home?
It depends on where you live. In Phoenix? Maybe think about buying.
News
Another Way to Find Out How Many Homeless Are in Your Town
An interactive multi-year map of regional homeless populations shows you how many are on your streets and how that's changed since 2005.
Culture
A Skeptic's Guide to Writers' Houses, in Photos
In A Skeptic's Guide to Writers' Houses, Anne Trubek visits homes of greats from Poe to Twain to Hemingway, and the past smashes into the present.
Environment
GOOD Design Daily: How to Turn Empty Beer Cans into a Roof
Check out Bill Robb's step-by-step tutorial on how to repurpose aluminum cans as a roof for a chicken coop-upcycling at its best.
News
Ever Worked for Better Food? GreatNonprofits Wants Your Reviews
GreatNonprofits and GuideStar want to hear from you about nonprofits that are really making a different when it comes to food.
Cities
Does Planting More Trees Reduce Crime?
Areas with large trees in public spaces have lower crime rates, so will planting more trees in high crime areas make them safer?
Culture
Catie Newell's Salvaged Landscape: An Arsoned Detroit House Becomes Public Art
Catie Newell and The Imagination Station turn a blighted block in Detroit into an art-focused community center.
Design
Upcycled Houses Built from Old Shipping Containers, Plastic Bottles, and Trash
Around the world, people are junk into home-sweet-home. From old shipping containers to plastic bottles, these are some truly innovative upcycles.
Design
Mini-Project: A Few of Your Dream Houses
For our mini-Project today, we asked GOOD readers to send in images of their dream houses. Here's a selection of what you sent in.
Design
Mini-Project: Find Your Dream Home
For this weeks project, we're collecting images of GOOD readers' dream homes. What do you got?
Environment
Shelter: You Can Still Build a House with Your Own Two Hands
Craftsmanship may be on the decline, but it's alive and well for home-builder Lloyd Khan, the subject of Jason Sussberg's new short documentary.
Environment
This Hyper-Efficient "Passive House" Needs No Furnace, Even in Frigid Vermont
It's possible to build a house that doesn't need any source of heat besides the sun and the warm bodies inside. Even in frigid Vermont.
Design
Ads for Imaginary Buildings Highlight Lack of Real Development
Hypothetical Development places architectural renderings for imaginary, never-gonna-happen places on vacant, dilapidated buildings in New Orleans.
Business
Housing Prices Must Fall, Yet Housing Prices Must Not Fall
Tyler Cowen wonders what happens if we let housing prices fall as "many smart people say we should." Arguably many banks would once again be...
Business
IKEA Starts Selling Used Furniture
Next time you go to buy a bed MÖRRUM or a coffee table KLUBBO, you might be able to save some money and get a used one. On August 28, IKEA...
Environment
GE Will Try to Reduce Energy Use by 70 Percent in a Few Test Cities
GE is beginning a new experiment in a handful of test cities to see if it can achieve dramatic reductions in home energy use. The program will...
Business
Is the Age of the McMansion Over?
McMansions, the over-sized, cookie-cutter houses that now mar our nation's suburbs, were the symbol of the housing boom. "Everyone can have a...
Environment
Is Your Mortgage Energy Efficient?
A proposed bill would require banks to factor in the energy costs of a borrower. Grist
