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Beyond Sprawl: Zombie Subdivisions

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Home builders have long made a living expanding the edges of Southwestern cities. But look around these days, and you’ll 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 Fronteras Changing America Deskseries asks: is it time to reconsider the way we’ve built the Southwest?

We begin the series, Beyond Sprawl, in Phoenix. Peter O’Dowd reports on a new kind of subdivision, the zombie subdivision .