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Make Housing Affordable by Abolishing Growth Boundaries, not Ending Density Restrictions: Reason Magazine Debate
In too many metropolitan areas, housing is no longer affordable for middle-class households, especially in read more »
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Los Angeles Housing Voucher Lottery: 7 Families For Each Waiting List Place
Writing in Laist.com, David Wagner reports that the City of Los Angeles opened its Section 8 rental voucher waiting list for the first time in five years. read more »
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Another Supply Factor in Home Sales: Who Can Broker the Deal?
America’s latest bout of realty mania may finally be dying down, as home prices and particularly sales volumes decline after a rise of interest rates. With mortgage payments more costly, and expectations of equity appreciation diminishing, the fees charged by brokers may become a rub again. Five percent off the top, a typical full transaction commission, shouldn’t escape so much notice when prices aren’t rising by double digits each year. read more »
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Detached Houses on Smaller Lots: Key to L.A.'s High Density
Recently, the high density of Los Angeles became an issue in a proposed city of Vancouver high rise development project read more »
Court Blocks Minneapolis Single-Family Zoning Abolition
The City of Minneapolis “cannot enforce its controversial long-range plan eliminating single-family zoning read more »
Hudson Yards Developer Builds Units for Hybrid Schedule Top Executives
Related Companies, developer of Hudson Yards in New York, the largest private real estate development in the nation’s history has announced a 270 housing units read more »
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Show-Offs and Their Big Houses
What primarily intrigues me about people who willingly show themselves and their oversized properties off in places like the Wall Street Journal’s Mansion section is…why? read more »
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What the New York Times Won't Admit About California
Even the New York Times has to admit unpleasant realities, like the departure of people from California and other deep blue states. read more »
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Bay Area Council: Can We Restore the California Dream?
Joel Kotkin, Presidential Fellow in Urban Futures at Chapman University and Marshall Toplansky, Clinical Assistant Professor of Management Science at Chapman University, plus Holland & Knight Partner Jennifer Hernandez and Raley’s President and CEO Keith Knopf join a Bay Area Council webinar to discuss how we can restore the California dream. read more »
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