Not So Fast
Census Cites Housing Boom In Harrisonburg — But Its Math Gets A Little Fuzzy
Posted: June 21, 2012
Contractors lay brick on Tuesday outside a unit being finished at The Overlook At Stone Spring on Stone Spring Road. The housing market in Harrisonburg is reasonably brisk, but it appears not to be quite as good as the Census Bureau thinks it is.
A contractor hangs an address sign Tuesday at The Overlook At Stone Spring apartment complex on Stone Spring Road. Although the Census Bureau released numbers last week that indicate Harrisonburg has one of the highest housing unit growth rates in the nation, its methodology has been called into question. The city’s own figures show 166 units were added during the period from April 2010 to June 2011, but the Census Bureau estimated that number at 443 units. (Photos by Michael Reilly / DN-R)
HARRISONBURG — Figures released last week from the U.S. Census Bureau indicate that Harrisonburg experienced one of the fastest housing unit growth rates in the nation between April 2010 and...
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