Laws of supply and demand drive up the prices of commodities that are better and scarce. The common suggestion that the resale price of affordable housing must be controlled is unfair. The only permanent solution to the problem of high value is to make New Urbanist communities common. Only then will the pressure on prices be relieved. The fallacy of nostalgia.
Architectural criticism seems unable to discern anything beyond the surface of form.
These buildings are good, typical housing available for less than one-hundredth the cost of the current master's fee. Krieger is right, we are allergic to nostalgia. The CNU is prepared to engage the mass culture of the American middle class and damn the kitsch. It is learning the brutally modern techniques of marketing, communication, and financing. The only thing nostalgic about the CNU is the holding of principles and nurturing of the possibility of attaining them.