Infographic: Is convenience a fair trade for privacy?
Is convenience a fair trade for privacy?
What level of market share constitutes a monopoly, effectively obstructing free market competition?
Driver’s licenses, passports, mugshots—are searched using facial recognition technology by the FBI. Watchdogs have asked lawmakers...
Infographic: Rent control – Getting the squeeze for poor housing policy and stifling regulation
5%+rate of inflation
California state legislators have passed AB 1482 sponsored by Assemblyman David Chiu (d)—San Francisco. The bill limits annual rent increases that commercial single-family homes and apartment landlords may implement to 5% plus...
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: 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: 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: Tornado tumult
Tornado tumult Tornado count through May 2019. The total annual average is 743. This 2-year trend follows a lull in tornado activity stretching back to 2012.
Thunderstorms: Earth’s cooling agent - In summer, hot,...
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: 21 biases that derail critical thought
Math is perfect. The application of math, however, is contextual. Data science involves human logic. The best data science comes from limited human interaction. Still, data scientists must extrapolate meaning from data in order...
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: 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 space and stuff
Apartment operators lease livable space. Some of that space houses residents. But occupancy also means sheltering a resident’s stuff. And renters have a lot of stuff. Like an average of 300,000 items per person....
Infographic: Navigating fake assistance animals-Americans with Disability Act (ADA) VERSUS Fair Housing Act (FHA)
ADA
Requires business owners to make necessary, reasonable accommodations for people with disabilities.
Accommodation could allow a person with a disability to be accompanied by a service animal in a place of public...
Infographic: The Big Squeeze
It’s hard, even impossible, to resist the siren of the algorithm. The lure of big tech and its promise to improve apartment operations only intensifies.
In turn, big tech is in the business of big...
Infographic: Unsustainable California
5 reasons California is unsustainable in its current state
1. Rent control
Several rent control bills failed to make it through the California Senate. AB 1482 (anti-rent gouging bill) did clear the Senate judiciary committee. If...
ISAs set to transform the labor market
Income share agreement (ISAs) fund education. Upon completion, learners pay a percentage of their salary for a term.
Lenders correlate interest rate and pay-back period with borrower’s potential career outcome.
This may mean varying tuitions for...
