The housing theory of childless cat ladies
Would a YIMBY building boom rejuvenate urban family life or produce sterile, megacity hellscapes?
Housing Boom = Baby Bust?
America’s low birth rate is in the news again, thanks largely to Vice Presidential candidate Sen. J.D....
Market set for recovery
The multifamily housing market is showing promising signs of recovery, with recent data from CoStar Group revealing a significant increase in demand and stabilization of vacancy rates.
Absorption rates have notably risen from 118,000 units...
Millennials rising
Millennials are now wealthier than previous generations were at their age. They can’t believe it either.
The median household net worth of older millennials, born in the 1980s, rose to $130,000 in 2022 from $60,000...
Has capitalism come at the expense of the poor?
Perhaps the most amazing fact in all economic history is the unprecedented rise in wealth per person that has taken place in the last two centuries, following the Industrial Revolution. But it remains a...
Categories hit hardest by inflation
Despite inflation cooling to the lowest level in more than three years in July, there’s no way around the fact that consumer prices in the United States have risen sharply over the past three...
Affordability is re-emerging as a tailwind for market-rate apartments.
Affordability is re-emerging as a tailwind for market-rate apartments. One takeaway from data discussed on a RealPage podcast this week is that rent-to-income ratios have returned to pre-pandemic levels, suggesting affordability issues...
