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Fred Clark on Joe Biden’s role in helping to create the housing meltdown — and economic downturn — that we all know and love.

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The architecture of sprawl is often an architecture of convenience for the developers, rather than a source of comfort and delight for the homes’ intended residents. Artist Travis Shaffer’s Residential Facades explores the sometimes downright inhospitable results, examining “Southern suburban architecture and the unnerving anomaly of street-oriented residential facades without doors or windows.”

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The Panic of 1893 was the worst depression America would experience until 1929, and its effects triggered a new symbol of American gothic: the haunted house. Newly built homes with their gingerbread shingles, turrets, and wide-eyed windows were abandoned and shuttered by owners who could no longer pay for them. 

Will the half-empty suburban lot become the iconic haunted house of the next century? Or has it already begun?