From the article: "'In 1960, UNCG housed 76 percent of our students on campus,” Brady told the board before unveiling the school’s strategic housing plan. “By 2008, this figure had dropped to 25 percent.'" and "Carol Disque, vice chancellor for student affairs, said UNCG is expected to have more than 16,000 undergraduate students by 2020. To reach its goal of housing half those students on campus, the school will need more than 8,000 new beds.

The question: Where to put them? Already using most of its 200 acres and hemmed in by development, the school has struggled with that question for years."

"Work on multifamily homes, such as townhouses and apartment buildings, dropped 13 percent to an annual rate of 91,000. Multifamily projects are more vulnerable to credit constraints facing some builders.

The decrease in starts was led by a 16 percent drop in the Northeast, followed by a 1.6 percent decline in the West and 1.4 percent in the South. They rose 13 percent in the Midwest."

Very interesting piece on the intersection of cloud computing, particularly the hardware aspects of it, and government, particularly regulation and taxation, and what that means for the future of technology companies.

Winston-Salem Journal managing editor Ken Otterbourg questions whether or not Sunday will retain its primacy in the newspaper business as the print and online worlds continue to converge.

A couple of community news operations down near Charlotte are doing what newspapers are supposed to do and it doesn't seem coincidental that they're both run by journalists who have a history of mixing it up. (h/t to Fec for the link).

"Insurance reform absolutely does need to consider costs. However, dollars spent by the Federal government, as important as they are, are neither the sole metric of costs nor the sole determinant of effective social policy."