Monday, September 28, 2009

Gated areas numbers going up | hattiesburgamerican.com | Hattiesburg American

Gated areas numbers going up | hattiesburgamerican.com | Hattiesburg American: "Apparently, they're on the rise nationally. In a two-year period, the number of housing units inside communities 'secured with walls or fences' rose from around 7 million to more than 10 million.

That finding is from the U.S. Census Bureau's American Housing Surveys of 2005 and 2007. Slightly fewer than half, or about 5 million, were 'owner-occupied' in 2007; the rest were rented."

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They say it takes an average of 8 seconds to enter a gated community.

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