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Retail has been reeling. What’s in store for multifamily owners with retail?
Retail troubles across the country have left malls looking like ghost towns, killed iconic brands like Toys “R” Us and shuttered stores along Fifth...
More than 60 percent of Californians back transit-housing bill
One of the questions specifically singled out SB 50, which would change the way that California cities zone near major transit hubs, like train...
Does one size fit all?
Wiener offers the same basic solution for everyplace in this vast state of 58 counties and 482 cities, many of which are quite unique....
The good life
A Chicago developer who converted one of the oldest churches in Logan Square into apartments has put the property up for sale with a...
What makes people upgrade? Self-improvement.
As marketers know, product improvement is a key driver of consumers’ decision to upgrade—the greater the improvement between the previous and new iPhone, the...
California’s unfixable housing mess is years in the making
Unfortunately, there aren’t many vexing issues that can be resolved in an 850-word column or a 50-word email rebuttal. Most of California’s myriad “crises”...
5 Myths about strategy
Unless you have sealed yourself off in a social media echo chamber, lies are easy to spot. Except, that is, when the lie is...
How to give up outrage and enjoy your life
Approaching the bonsai display, we heard high decibel rock music blasting, shattering the stillness of the park. Contractors had arrived in a large truck;...
Incivility and its discontents
Recently, in a rare moment, the Pennsylvania state party chairs, Democrat Nancy Patton Mills and Republican Val DiGigiorgio, agreed to participate in a student-organized...
Housing finance reform: Here we go again
Now the Senate is stepping up. Senate Banking Committee Chairman Mike Crapo (R-Ida.) said he is making housing finance reforms a key focus area...
In defense of reason and landlords
Oregon is on its final turn toward statewide rent control by legislative fiat. California landlords are just catching their breath after dodging the rent...
Time-of-use rates sparks new debate about customer and grid impacts
Momentum is slowly building behind new rate designs that focus on customer costs and meeting system needs, but some say it’s too slow. Pilot programs...
U.S. will be an energy-exporter for the next three decades
EIA’s report came days before the Chicago Weather Service warned that a period of extreme bitterly cold weather would affect the region. Cold winters have...
The AirBnB effect
D.C. is restricting it. Florida might stop investing in it. New Orleans is trying to ban it completely. Across the country, legislators are not...
Oregon likely to become first in the nation to adopt statewide rent control
As home and rental prices rise across the country, more and more locales are giving serious consideration to a policy long denounced by economists:...
