"If you just look at the building permits around the state, sure there's a boom going on, but that's not the issue," he says. "The issue is who it's being built for."
The Boston Boom
The study's conclusions were optimistic, reporting that cities have created a large amount of new housing over the past several years.
"[Home construction] has been very steadily growing for some years now, and more recent reports indicate that it continues to do well," von Hoffman says.
But this growth was not uniform. According to the report, suburbs gained the most new homes, more than 80 percent of the total constructed.
In addition, not all regions of the country experienced growth evenly, as the report showed some cities doing better than others.
Boston emerged as a clear winner.
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