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The latest new voice suggesting city centers are the place to be: Fitch Ratings. In what Joe Cortright calls "maybe the most under-reported story of the year" for urbanists, the investment rating agency shows housing demand shifting towards urban centers "in nearly every city analyzed." According to Fitch, downtown home...

When my wife and I bought our home, we were hoping to find something like a duplex or condo in walking distance to downtown Ypsilanti—to no avail. While there were dozens of single-family homes available at the time, only one duplex came up in 6 months of looking, and the...