{"id":60,"date":"2026-10-01T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.davidrosenfeld.com\/blog\/?p=60"},"modified":"2026-10-01T14:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T14:00:00","slug":"map-highlights-cities-ready-for-new-home-growth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidrosenfeld.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/01\/map-highlights-cities-ready-for-new-home-growth\/","title":{"rendered":"Map Highlights Cities Ready for New Home Growth"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"roomvu-news-container\">\n<p>As someone who\u2019s worked with home buyers and sellers in Santa Monica for years, I always keep an eye on national housing trends that may affect our local market. Right now, new home construction across the U.S. is slowing down\u2014permits are 19.4% below pre-pandemic levels, and we\u2019ve seen declines for the past 44 months. High building costs, mortgage rates, and affordability challenges are making it tough for builders to keep up, contributing to a 4.7 million housing unit deficit. Staying informed on these shifts helps me better support your needs and answer questions about how broader trends might shape your real estate decisions.<\/p>\n<p>\t<a class=\"roomvu-news-continue\" href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/map-shows-cities-facing-new-home-construction-slump-12447341\"><\/p>\n<div>Continue to full article<\/div>\n<p>\t<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As someone who\u2019s worked with home buyers and sellers in Santa Monica for years, I always keep an eye on national housing trends that may affect our local market. Right now, new home construction across the U.S. is slowing down\u2014permits are 19.4% below pre-pandemic levels, and we\u2019ve seen declines for the past 44 months. High [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":61,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-posts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidrosenfeld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidrosenfeld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidrosenfeld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidrosenfeld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidrosenfeld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidrosenfeld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidrosenfeld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60\/revisions\/62"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidrosenfeld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidrosenfeld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidrosenfeld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidrosenfeld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}