Contra Costa Times
At home with Marni Jameson

 
Buried deep within all the grim, boo-hoo statistics about the current housing industry lies a sparkling little diamond of datum no one's noticing. This is probably because, as a society we require a steady diet of concern and prefer the familiar comfort of bad news. Why else would we be so fixated on Britney Spears?

True, in most of the country, home appreciation has slowed, housing starts are down. Foreclosures up. Credit's tighter because too-generous lenders made bad loans, blah, blah, blah. But read 13 lines into the downbeat findings out last June from Harvard University's Joint Center for Housing Studies and you'll cheer up:


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