Getting beyond the velvet rope in new home development and construction.

An article points out here that, during the four years from 2010 to 2014, the number of Americans with financial assets of $1 million or more spiked by more than 30%, to just under 7 million people.

Further, this piece, a New York Times special report that spotlights an American phenomenon that’s gaining momentum–the polarization of the very wealthy from the rest of Americans known as the “velvet rope economy”–notes that the top 1% of households controls 42% of American household wealth, up from a norm of 30% a decade ago.

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