The electronic arm of the Dallas Morning News, the DallasNews, ran an article earlier this week about the rapid growth that we are experiencing here in the Metroplex and a side bar article mixed in about the even more expansive growth in Houston. We are the fourth largest area in the country; New York and New Jersey is third.
Dallas came in at 131.000 in the count period in 2013 to 2014. Houston:156,000 in the same period. When you look at the New York and New Jersey numbers in comparison, they added just 91,000. That's 105,000 plus/minus more above each reaching New York's numbers in both Houston and Dallas. That is 287.67 people per day arriving in each city of Houston, Dallas, The Woodlands, Arlington.
No wonder vacant land, from single lots to open fields, are under construction. For the past month, I have been counting houses in the framing mode. The numbers add up more than the fingers on both hands, always!
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Dallas came in at 131.000 in the count period in 2013 to 2014. Houston:156,000 in the same period. When you look at the New York and New Jersey numbers in comparison, they added just 91,000. That's 105,000 plus/minus more above each reaching New York's numbers in both Houston and Dallas. That is 287.67 people per day arriving in each city of Houston, Dallas, The Woodlands, Arlington.
No wonder vacant land, from single lots to open fields, are under construction. For the past month, I have been counting houses in the framing mode. The numbers add up more than the fingers on both hands, always!
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| The new homes on just single lots number more than the fingers on each hand in Dallas. That does not include the 300-500 apartment complexes that are going up en mass and the 8-10 unite condos that are squeezed onto 2 or 3 acres. |
