One of Houston’s biggest supporters, the economics writer Joel Kotkin, acknowledges that the city has a “cruddy reputation.’ It’s the only major U.S. city without a formal zoning code, which means you can find strip clubs next to churches and oil derricks in residential neighborhoods. But say this for Houston: It’s booming.
In August, the most recent month for which figures are available from the U.S. Census Bureau, metro Houston (including Sugar Land and the Woodlands) issued more permits for construction of single-family homes than did the entire state of California, which has six times the population. And that was no fluke.
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