A Finer Lens on Housing

We’re not ashamed to declare ourselves total stats geeks, which means we’re always curious about the stories behind Big Important Numbers. And occasionally in our mathematical wanderings, we come to realize that some of those Numbers are a heckuva lot less revealing than they’re cracked up to be—batting average, for example, or Gross Domestic Product.

After a delightful stretch of investigation, we’d now like to add housing starts to that ignoble list. We’ve always suspected the all-important yar