- Houston Has Fourth Fastest-Moving Housing Market in Nation with Homes on the Market for a Median of 17 Days, Finds ZipRealty [Houston Business Journal]
- Houston Will Be Switching To Electronic Building Permit System in About a Year [Houston Chronicle]
- Trio of Investors Buys 621 Acres Near Katy, Plans To Sell To Housing Developer in About a Year [Houston Chronicle]
- Inside the First Standalone Rolex Store in Texas, Now Open in the Galleria [Culturemap]
- Clark Cooper Concepts, Buffalo Bayou Partnership Teaming Up for Private Event Space The Dunlavy on Allen Pkwy. [Culturemap]
- Newk’s Eatery Opening Second Houston-Area Location Today on Katy Fwy. in Katy; 2 More Stores To Follow By End of 2015 [Prime Property]
- California Chain Jinya Ramen Bar Branching into Houston with Midtown, Webster Locations Opening Later This Year [Eater Houston]
- The Melting Pot Seeking Franchisees To Expand in Houston Area [Prime Property]
- The Man Who’s on a Mission To Find Texas’s Old Dance Halls and Keep Them Alive [Houston Chronicle]
- $24M John W. Johnson Ferry Boat Has Operated Between Galveston Island and Bolivar Peninsula for Only 15 Days During First 5 Months of the Year [Galveston County Daily News ($)]
- Slideshow: Houston-Area Bridges Labeled Structurally Deficient or Functionally Obsolete by TxDOT [Houston Chronicle]
- Texas Disability Advocates Sue Uber, Lyft for Denials of Services to Disabled Texans [Houston Chronicle]
- Montgomery County Steps Up Mosquito Spraying After First Human Case of West Nile Virus Confirmed [The Woodlands]
- Beehive Builds Up on Walker St. Crosswalk Downtown [The Isiah Factor]
Photo of East Houston industrial complex: David Elizondo, via Swamplot Flickr Pool
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“. . . Housing preferences can be a multifaceted thing. However, when you look at patterns of socioeconomic segregation within society, yeah I would say that the evidence is damning . . . to society. (I do not have any policy prescriptions. I think that good intentions are too often and too easily co-opted by the powers that be.)
At the very least, at the barest minimum, a significant enough portion of homeowners anticipate that the market moves on the premise of socioeconomic segregation that their anticipation of demand for segregation is itself what makes the market segregated. This is the polite premise underlying white flight, and it was as true in Riverside 50 years ago as it was 10 years ago in Spring and Missouri City and as it is today in various places I prefer not to call out by name in order not to be part of the problem.” [
Embedded in a profile of 99-year-old artist Elinor Evans, who taught freshman design at the university in the sixties, seventies, and eighties — and whose exhibition of collages at the Moody Gallery opened earlier this month — is this bit of 
