What comes next for the most empty downtown in America? VIEW
In any given week, the city's office buildings are at about 40% of their pre-pandemic occupancy, and the vacancy rate has jumped to 24% from...
The rent revolution is coming VIEW
A swell of tenants’ rights activism has brought organizing muscle and policies like rent control to cities far beyond the high-cost coasts.
We need to keep building houses, even if no one wants to buy
Right now, builders have too many homes and not enough people to sell them to, however, in the long term, the U.S will have the...
Relief eludes many renters as Fed raises interest rates
Rents have been rising swiftly across America for much of the pandemic era, and housing experts are warning that they could now receive a boost...
Twilight of the NIMBY VIEW
NIMBYs who used to be viewed as at worst practical are now painted as housing hoarders robbing the next generation of the American dream.
Mortgage rates climb to 5% for the first time since 2011
U.S. mortgage rates rose to 5% for the first time in more than a decade, adding another burden to homebuyers who were already struggling.
The next affordable city is already too expensive VIEW
In Spokane, home prices jumped 60% in two years, pricing out broad swaths of the populace. The increase is fueled by buyers fleeing the boom...
Why $4.5 billion from Big Tech won’t end the housing crisis
Efforts by Apple, Facebook and Google to address the California housing crunch must contend with the forces that created it.