Infographic: Essential workers
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Updated: April 16, 2020
Who gets to work?
essential workers
Real estate is essential (depending on where you work)
Construction. Apartment operations. Maintenance services. Real estate functions are categorized as essential in the Department of Homeland Security’s...
Infographic: The Q4 $1.7 trillion spending plan is now law
Here’s the multifamily housing industry take
December’s massive government spending law signals the end of two years of Democrat control of the federal government.
The law funds federal departments, agencies and programs impacting housing especially favoring...
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...
Infographic: Stagflation
Ghosts of economies past: 39 v 46
The similarities between the presidencies of Joe Biden and Jimmy Carter have given many pause. Is America on track to repeat the pain of the what many believe...
Infographic: The United States of apartment owners
50 largest multifamily housing owners by location
Shifting public opinion
58% Americans are pro real estate development compared to 49% y/y
40% support higher density apartments or taller buildings
46% say affordable housing is beneficial, up y/y from...
Infographic: Money talks
ESG (environmental, social, governance) standards break the business convention of evaluating business performance based on quantitative financial metrics. This is a major shift in the centuries-old value model familiar to most Americans: investor value.
ESG...
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: Follow the money
The color of industries
Donations to candidates and candidate PACs
Political spending by donors’ industry
Donations to super PACs and outside spending groups
Partisan industries
Democrat
Republican
% total industry
Industrial unions
$8,213,414
$355,207
95.9
Internet
26,825,046
3,433,577
88.7
Publishing
27,887,021
4,452,566
86.2
Building trade unions
11,233,289
1,982,241
85
Entertainment
43,580,054
7,243,169
85.7
Lawyers
130,752,964
30,756,695
81
Civil servants
48,966,264
14,419,488
77.3
Business services
49,788,947
15,245,589
76.6
Oil & gas
$6,977,878
$39,026,468
84.8
Building materials
2,569,423
13,907,030
84.4
Savings & loans
204,540
1,049,993
83.7
Trucking
1,234,077
6,194,015
83.4
Waste management
585,803
2,573,977
81.5
Home...
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: Demographic shift toward lower taxes, free economies
While data collection does not include specifics on why people move, data scientists have drawn a correlation between low-tax, low-cost states and population growth.
+0.1% U.S. population growth (July y/y) at an all-time historic low
Why?
...
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: 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: 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 Big Chill
Thawing America’s unchosen
Time will tell the full effect the C19 shutdown will have on the American economy. Here are the signals thus far.
NYC vacancies nearly triple
Apartment vacancies jumped from 1,750 during the last week...
Infographic: The incredible shrinking American workforce
While COVID created a shared world experience across generations, reactions to the pandemic roiled the jobs market. One example: Millions of people left the workforce during lock-downs. Although workforce participation rates began to edge...