Houston
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on August 2nd, 2008 4:37 am by HL
Houston
Echoing one of Matt’s commenters who brings up something I’ve been meaning to mention for awhile. It is true that Houston has no zoning in the sense that you can stick commercial buildings next to housing (though the extensive use of land use covenants have established a kind of de facto zoning in many places), but Houston still has land use regulations which place serious restrictions on the type of structure you can put on a piece of land.
In other words, Houston doesn’t tell you what you can do with a structure, but it still tells you what kind of structures you can build.
Forgot To Bet
Jobs report is out.
The U.S. unemployment rate climbed to 5.7 percent in July, its highest in more than four years as employers cut payrolls for a seventh month in a row, though less severely than predicted, according to a government report in Friday.The Labor Department said 51,000 non-farm jobs were eliminated in July, bringing losses for the year to 463,000.