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,...
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: Renter nation
12.3 percent of millennial renters plan to always rent—up from 10.7 percent nationally year-over-year.
9.8 percent of the U.S. population moved in the past year—the smallest number since 1948.
17 percent wanted a...
The vanishing apartment
The affordability crisis is creeping up into middle-income households according to Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies’ 2020 report, America’s Rental Housing.
48% of renter households are considered cost-burdened. What does this mean? 21 million...
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: 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: C19 just the facts
Real guarantee: No models were used in the production of this report.
50% of those who contract the coronavirus are asymptomatic
80% of all coronavirus cases are mild according to the most recent studies...
Infographic: Unplugged in California
2 million residents were without power for days at a time in the state’s outages
6,402 wildfires in Calif. as of Nov. 3. Wind-induced fire season runs Oct. to April. Summer fire season runs June...
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: 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...
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...
Infographic: Let my workers go
The release of America
As Americans fights to return to work and businesses begin to re-open, a funny thing is happening. Nothing.
0 increase in C19 cases in places restrictions were lifted People are getting back...
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: 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: 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...
