The home-building industry has indeed become more concentrated since 2008, but the slowdown in housing production in the Sun Belt began well before that.

The National Association of Home Builders recently published a Cost of Construction Survey, which details the various costs of building a typical new single-family home.

Up to 20% of the LGBTQ+ population in the U.S. lives in rural America. That’s millions of people defying the narrative that the only place queer folks want to live is in a city or on the coast ...