Tag: September October 2024
Men over 70 flooding back into the workforce
The headline figure of 12,000 jobs from the latest labor-market report is getting all the attention—but as usual, the much more interesting stuff is...
Residents expect electronic access control
Properties see value in access control solutions’ core mission of enhancing community safety and security. Parks Associates’ new study, Smart Properties: The Value of IoT...
Multifamily core and value-add metrics outperform expectations
Much news about multifamily has been about the difficulties in the asset class. A new report from CBRE Research raises an interesting comparison to...
DOJ sues RealPage for housing inflation government caused
President Biden, Vice-President Harris and their Department of Justice have come out strongly against RealPage for their algorithm designed to help landlords better understand...
Lawsuits coming as courts question federal agencies
You might have seen the headlines: “Supreme Court Just Defeated Big Government" (Fox News), “Guts Agency Power” (Axios), “Imperils an Array of Federal Rules” (New...
Why corporate America is retreating from social activism
In January, Axios reported a developing trend in corporate America: corporations across the United States were backing away from DEI, which had become a...
Costco life
Costco has jumped into the nation’s affordable housing crisis. The warehouse retailer, which operates more than 500 stores across the U.S., broke ground on...
Inflation is the most destructive disease known to modern societies —Milton Friedman
Here’s how. 1 Shoe leather The resources and energy people use to convert deteriorating currency into stable assets are costly. Economists call this shoe leather costs,...
Paying the fox to watch the chickens: The war on private housing
Despite the rise in homelessness, the federal government continues to raise the barrier to creating shelter for those without permanent housing. Infusing bad actors...
Bad loans will cost taxpayers $65.2B in 2025
GAAP stands for “generally accepted accounting principles,” and are a set of rules/standards for preparing and reporting financial statements in the U.S. (unless you’re...
America’s spending problem
This will slim you down six ways from Sunday. The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other peoples’ money. —Margaret Thatcher $2.4...
Results matter
Snapshots and soundbites are used to describe politics. Makes sense. The subconscious mind constantly scans the landscape for the most important thing: The path...
Candidates move focus to housing
In the 2024 race between Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump for the U.S. presidency, housing is a major issue for...