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How and Where Mattress Firm Is Conquering Houston, One Sleepy Strip Center...
“Now we know why we seem to have hit peak mattress along Westheimer,” declares Christopher Andrews, after producing and walking through a series of maps intended to shed light on where in the Houston...
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Your Map to Houston Mattress Chain Stores
Blogger and amateur bedding-sales analyst Christopher Andrews has updated a few of his maps of mattress chain stores in the Houston area (including the one shown above) to include Mattress One (or...
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Houstonians Think Houston Is 63 Percent Urban, Kinda
In a guest post for ESPN’s FiveThirtyEight, Trulia’s chief economist trots out a bunch of maps and charts that purport to show that Houston, unlike the other 5 most populous U.S. cities, is actually...
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Comment of the Day: Where’s Houston’s Real-Time Flood Map?
“Has anyone posted a map of the residential streets that flooded yesterday? I’ve seen neighborhoods mentioned wholesale, but I also understand it was hit-and-miss from street to street. Thank you!”...
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A Wetter Way To Follow the Story of Houston’s Historic Sprawl
Have you seen this video (at top) from the city’s planning and development department? It’s silent, several years old, and not the flashiest portrait of Houston available on YouTube. But in a...
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Where Trump Lost Harris County, Mapped
With all 1,012 precincts shaded in by civic data whiz Jeff Reichman, the interactive map above of last week’s election results shows both stark splits and gray areas in blue-swung Harris County, which...
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The Houston Zip Code Where the Kids Don’t Leave Home
New number crunching from the Pew Research Center suggests that around 57 percent of the folks between 18 and 34 in the 77045 Zip Code may be living with their parents. (77045 includes both residential...
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The Rent Is Too Damn High Where the Income Is Too Damn Low
Inspired by a report from Harvard’s Joint Center on Housing Studies that compares household income to the percentage of income used to pay rent for various income levels, Chronicle biz reporter Lydia...
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77088 Now Ranks as Houston’s Flippiest Zip
Houston doesn’t show up anywhere in Attom Data Solutions latest rankings of the nation’s home-flipping hotspots, but zoom into the heatmap accompanying the company’s first-quarter report and you’ll...
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Comment of the Day Second Runner-Up: Houston’s Big Boundary Advantage
“. . . One of the reasons that Houston manages to buck trends affecting other central cities is that Houston is orders of magnitude larger than many central cities. Within its incorporated city limits,...
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The Quickest Way To Find the Nearest Hurricane Harvey Shelter That Isn’t...
Here’s a crowdsourced, interactive map showing more than 180 shelters and shelter-ish locations set up in the last few days to take in evacuees separated from soggy homes as a result of Harvey...
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The Best Way To Find Out Which Hurricane Harvey Shelters Near You Need Help,...
Here’s another helpful online tool from the civic hackers at Sketch City, this one for would-be volunteers: a crowdsourced, interactive map showing which shelters near you are in need of what...
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