Not in My Backyard
Tag: NIMBY
The opportunity in commercial conversions
When I first started in multifamily, I heard an acronym that I admit I had to look up: NIMBY. Not In My Back Yard....
Affordable housing may not depress neighboring values
There’s this assumption that having low-income housing in your neighborhood has a corrosive effect on your property values, but there are some new reports...
Why does Hollywood hate real estate developers?
There’s a scene in the HBO drama The Wire where several Baltimore homicide detectives come to the realization that the murderous gangster they’ve been...
Workforce housing is the darling of multifamily investors and a challenge to real estate...
A combination of slow wage growth and limited supply has resulted in strong renter demand and investor interest in workforce housing, according to a...
The great disappeared
The state remains one of the most unequal in the nation—one that has both billions of dollars in Silicon Valley and rampant homelessness. The...
The cost of regulation on housing affordability
Some are looking to quick fixes that have been proven to not work, like rent control, while others are getting creative and combining public...
Walking tall
Of course, there are some obligatory qualifiers for that optimism. Most economists continue to project sustained moderate growth; but if a national recession takes...
