Home builders have long made a living expanding the edges of Southwestern cities. But look around these days, and you鈥檒l find construction projects that have come screeching to a halt. Home prices and new-home construction are a fraction of what they once were. After an historic housing crisis, a new series asks: is it time to reconsider the way we鈥檝e built the Southwest?
We begin the series, Beyond Sprawl, in Phoenix. Peter O鈥橠owd reports on a new kind of subdivision, the zombie subdivision .