Development
America’s fastest-growing suburbs are about to get very expensive
Jul 28, 2025
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Marina Bolotnikova
Here are appropriate excerpts from the Vox article that you can use with attribution and a link:
Opening context:
For the last half-century, America's population growth has been concentrated in the sweltering, equal parts bone-dry and waterlogged, yet ever-sprawling Sunbelt... But that abundance is already becoming a thing of the past. Across Sunbelt metros like Phoenix, Dallas, and Atlanta, housing supply growth has actually plummeted since the early 2000s.
Key finding:
"America's suburban frontier," the authors warn, "appears to be closing." The findings suggest that the fundamentals of housing in Raleigh, Orlando, or Miami are not so different from every other hot real estate market in the country.
Alli's quote:
"Housing is like a door with a bunch of deadbolts on it," Alli Thurmond Quinlan, an architect and small-scale developer based in Fayetteville, Arkansas, told me. "You have to unlock all the deadbolts, but as soon as you do, there's an enormous amount of human creativity" that rushes in. She stresses that communities shouldn't be afraid of going too far in repealing zoning rules, and that if anything, they should err on the side of going further.
Conclusion:
The suburbs, above all, must be allowed to be plural... We don't know what the future of the suburbs will be — but we can free them to become what we need of them.
Read the full article at: https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/417892/suburbs-sunbelt-housing-affordability-yimby





