But even though the vacancy rates in Oklahoma City are not a direct result of the housing boom and bust, it may be that newer solutions developed for “housing boom” and “low demand” areas can be combined with traditional community development policy tools to help solve a problem that developed over decades.
• Third, while some solutions may lie in changes to international financial architecture, I believe that the most productive remedies are generally those that apply at the national level - a point made strongly in an address given last month by Joseph Yam.