Could there be anything uglier than the rows of white plastic picket fence posts the city has installed along Telephone Road in Ventura? What an eyesore! We can assume this is the Ventura City ...

Many experts say the lack of homes is the main problem, so developers are building residences as fast as they can. Single-family home construction jumped 16% in September.

A white picket fence was easy shorthand for fictional families in film and on television: Upper middle-class, prosperous, mannered. Neighborhoods wanted to reflect the kind of wholesomeness ...

Beginning in the late 1940s, the white picket fence became synonymous with the American Dream. Lambert / Hulton Archive / Getty Images In little Taylor, Mississippi, outside Oxford, a developer ...