The case for turning golf courses into affordable housing

In cities where space is tight, underused golf courses are, in theory, ideal canvases for new housing. | Patrick T. Fallon/AFP Maybe it was never a great idea to build so many golf courses in the desert. But in the 1990s, when Tiger Woods mania was at its peak, Las Vegas went on a fairway construction spree, dotting the city with dozens of pristine, water-gobbling green oases, most woven around upscale master-planned suburbs.  One of those new fairways was the privately owned Badlands Golf…