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Jed Kolko
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Jed Kolko's personal blog at jedkolko.com covers economics and data. Since 2016, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 8 times, most often “Urban Revival? Not for Most Americans”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-08-07, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers cite Jed Kolko's blog for housing and urban data analysis, such as whether urban revival is limited to childless professionals, and for his collection of favourite housing posts.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Urban Revival? Not for Most Americans3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2016-04-01
What Hacker News says?
Jed Kolko, former chief economist at Trulia, thinks stories like this are either exaggerated or wrong. His basic claim is that urban revival is limited to childless professionals in their peak earning years. See [1], or any of his posts at [2] for the data and analysis. [1] http://jedkolko.com/2016/03/25/neighborhood-data-show-that-u... [2] http://jedkolko.com/favorite-housing-posts/
Comment linking /favorite-housing-posts/
on “The line is blurring between city and suburb”Submitted Unemployment rising in remote-friendly occupations (2024) as a story · 49 points
HN discussionYet another article which attempts to use Millennials as a homogeneous cohort to paint some broad-strokes policy questions to ponder. In fact, the generational cohorts are significantly less relevant than income [1] in correlating with where and how Americans live and work. Urban revival is driven by high-earning, middle-aged adults, working in downtown jobs that have seen the highest percentages of wage growth. But…
Comment linking /2016/03/30/urban-revival-not-for-most-americans/
on “Millennials Moving to Suburbs Will Change Economic Development”Submitted Urban Revival? Not for Most Americans as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThey linked to their data set: http://jedkolko.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Data-and-meth...
Comment linking /wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Data-and-methodological-details-052715.pdf
on “Police Killing Fewer People in Big Cities, but More in Suburban and Rural US”Submitted Urban Revival? Not for Most Americans as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Should your tech firm have an economist? as a story · 2 points
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