Infographic: Apartment chill
The sometimes hard to see symbiotic relationship of landlords and renters
Impoverishing landlords is not a win for renters. Nor is the landslide of evictions heading their way. Another big housing crisis may be ahead—only...
Infographic: Where has all the housing gone?
No labor. No materials. Rising costs and more regulations. The lack of housing grows.
5 million more housing units needed to pace demand
5 million of these are multifamily units
Housing production fell as demand...
Infographic: Social credit scores in America?
Social credit will shift law in the west “from constitution to analytics and algorithm'
—Penn State professor
Will AI-driven social scores supplant the constitution? Professor Larry Backer of Penn State University writes in a 2018 paper...
Infographic: Active shooter
What just happened?
Mass killings are still rare. They account for 1 percent of all homicide victims annually
12 percent of mass killings are by public shootings. The majority are murders within families, gangs...
Infographic: Comfort creatures
The curious case of comfort animals in apartments
Why pay a pet deposit when you can pass an animal off as a comfort animal? Or maybe a resident wants to circumvent a no-pet policy. The...
Infographic: The world through a single lens
Facebook says we don’t like this, and Twitter says we don’t like attacks on Hunter Biden. Once you act as a publisher, you’re a publisher. You can be sued because you’re a publisher. They...
Where have all the apartments gone?
Long time ago. When will they ever learn?
The way government regulates and taxes business and transactions directly shapes investment.
Good regulation addresses market failures that hinder productive investment. It reconciles the interests of firms with...
Infographic: Quantum supremacy
The man in the machine
Programmed by humans, algorithms begin with a logic tree specifying every facet of the code’s behavior from content prioritization to blacklisting. With Google’s near monopoly, what hangs in the...
Infographic: The business of government
Lest we forget. The U.S. government is a business that mines its value from its citizens and their productivity.
Often called the Backbone of the Nation, the real estate eco system is the country’s largest...
Infographic: Man-made chaos
State-mandated lockdowns began a cascade that especially devastated lower income people and continues to adversely impact the business of property management.
Government interference
with the ability to collect rent has left many investors unable to maintain...
Infographic: Clearing the air
CALIFORNIA
6 of California’s largest fires on record occurred in 2020.
1 million acres have burned in California in 2020 to date
33 million acres of forest in California
58% federally owned
3% state...
Infographic: The hidden tax on residents
When the government prints money to cover its spending, the dollar is devalued and taxpayers pay.
The $1,000 bill was a gold certificate in 1918. It moved off the gold standard in 1928 to a...
Infographic: California’s circular housing crisis
"Get me a good package on rent stability this year and I will sign it," Newsom said in his State of the State address in February. This wouldn't be the first time the state...
Infographic: Digital exposure
World Economic Forum (WEF) announced the results of its first global simulation in October, 2019, predicting a catastrophic pandemic. Months later the world was hit with COVID. Their latest sim predicts a worldwide cyber...
Infographic: C19 winners and losers
ZOOM
video conferencing, San Jose, Calif.
$664 million revenue growth May to June, driving Y/Y profits from $5.5 million to $186 million
AMAZON
e-commerce, Seattle, Wash.
$90 billion total revenue Q2, Amazon handled half of...
