The editors at Dwell sifted through the hundreds of homes featured over the past ten years to create their new special issue, Best Homes in America.
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With the housing market in a slump and more homeowners concerned about rising utility costs, this move toward smaller homes makes sense -- but it's not driven solely by economics.
Even before the home bubble burst, homes cost too much for more than four out of ten Americans. About 7.5 million people were spending more than half of their income on housing costs.
Chinese bargain hunters are preparing to descend on American cities such as Los Angeles and San Francisco, where homeowners have suffered some of the ...