The word sustainable has been used as a catch-phrase for all types of development yet the true green development should entail green considerations from the bottom up. This is quite difficult with the recession taxing heavy on current development problems but the housing market as a whole seems to be on track for recovery, sort of.
Home sales show climbing figures yet the prices of those very sales seem to be dropping to ever lower levels for all trending information that has come out of the housing market so far. It seems the recession is biting harder than everybody thought and whole neighborhoods are left abandoned with increasing risks resulting from these vacant homes. From fire risks and even disease due to abandoned swimming pools that can host mosquitoes and other disease carrying organisms, they are on the rise and they continue to bug many a city planners as to the course of action they are to take.
The problem is so big that some areas have to be closed off from the public with volunteers doing the state and other citizens a favor by helping clean up the mess former homeowners left behind. No measure may be enough to safeguard the public from such issues yet the recession is yet to end. Hope we do see the light at the end of the tunnel, for all our sakes.
Aug
24
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