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The affordability conundrum
A recent report by the Urban Land Institute has shined a light on recent growth in renter-by-choice households that is setting the past few...
Progress for NYCHA
The growing plan to save NYC’s public housing is heating up. In 2023, workers will finish renovations at thousands of public housing apartments in New...
Waters of the United States: The battle rages
WOTUS: Supreme Court On January 18, U.S. EPA and the Army Corps of Engineers issued a final WOTUS rule that will overlap with a forthcoming...
Full circle
Landlords pumped billions into apartment buildings during the pandemic. That bet could now go horribly wrong. While offices have been going through a paradigmatic shift...
Business investment slumps
Orders for American-made durable goods have fallen as business investments slump—a sign of an economic slowdown. The U.S. industrial sector has been falling into a...
Old school, new life
An abandoned school—and neighborhood eyesore—in Pennsylvania has been renovated and rehabbed into a viable piece of real estate once again. It has happened thanks to...
Who pays more taxes?
Benjamin Franklin wrote toward the end of his life, that “in this world, nothing is certain except death and taxes.” But while we’re all...
Right time. Right place.
Layoffs at American tech companies have become an opportunity for small businesses, as highly skilled workers look for new work. Small businesses with less than...
Regulations stunts housing (still)
A new Pew Charitable Trusts study examining jurisdictions that reformed zoning finds far lower rent increases there than elsewhere. Zoning rules that severely restrict the...
Housing block
California’s builders and YIMBYs are at loggerheads over a bill cracking down on ‘unchecked sprawl.’ Activists who would like to see more housing built...
How to turn meetings into strategic, fun engagements
I visit with executives every week, and a trend that seems overwhelmingly true is that many companies have calendars filled with uninspiring and unnecessary...
FOL: Fear of layoff
On the whole, the U.S. job market is doing fairly well—the most recent national unemployment rate came in at a cool 3.5 percent. And...
Software without a soul
With the release of AI tools like Bing Chat and Bard, people are starting to realize how helpful AI (artificial intelligence) can be to...
Rents on the move
Yearly rent growth turned negative for the first time since the beginning of the COVID era. March rent levels dipped 0.40 percent following eight...
Change the channel
Podcasts continue to grow rapidly all around the world. Podcast statistics and reports show that this medium is exploding in many countries with more...