Tag: Blog
HUD’s EnVision Vision
The HUD budget is out. Self-actualization is in. The $41.24 billion spending plan focuses on housing three vulnerable populations: the homeless, the elderly, and...
Living in Realsville
And so when I read a study that found that 80 percent of executives believe that their product/service/company stands out against the competition—while only...
Needed: 4.6 million new apartments by 2030
The National Multifamily Housing Council (NMHC) has released the 2018 Consumer Housing Insights Survey, alongside an in-depth trends report, Disruption: How Demographics, Psychographics, and...
Help wanted
The labor market continues to tighten as unemployment wobbled near a 45-year low last week leaving unemployment at the lowest level since January 1973.
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When buying a property goes very wrong
The only pre-demolition notice went to the former owner who lost the building to the city 18 years earlier in a tax sale. The...
Capitalizing on the apartment model
Howard Behr is back from Hyderabad, India, and he’s still talking about his 85-cent taxi ride. Behr, originally with NWP, Costa Mesa, Calif., and...
Net zero in a box
And so my obsession over Flex House, the newest concept-in-a-box (literally) which made its final on-tour appearance at CES in Vegas last month. Created...
NMHC: Apartment Strategies Outlook Conference
It remains to be seen how the recent rise in stock market volatility will impact the US economy which has been bolstered by rising...
Bright light, smarter brain
Paint, carpet and other surfaces link to human immune systems and more. The latest study out of Michigan says that dim light impacts the...
Will more of our residents die alone?
MHP recently ran a story on the ever-shrinking birth rate in the U.S. Analysts can only speculate on whether millennials are merely delaying having...
Are men better earners? Uber study says yes.
And to think, many speculated that the gig economy would favor women. This study is as clean as data comes. Uber matches riders with...
Do you have time for a call from a Mr. Bezos?
Are they talking about putting Amazon lockers on their properties? Yes. But that’s not all. Amazon‘s vision is far greater for apartment communities. Representatives...
Class warfare and how the Vietnam war finally ends
“He got rid of the intellectual elites,” said my guide. “Brutal—but I think it saved our country. I mean, consider what happens to a...
The power of 10
I was sitting in his office as he recounted the secret of life. It was 2005 and we spent the next two hours talking...
Stopping the cycle of poverty begins with housing
Terwilliger is chairman emeritus of Trammel Crow Residential Company and heralds a list of accomplishments that would fill this book. A quick primer for...
