The U.S. Justice Department is investigating the possibility that the major software company RealPage is facilitating price-fixing among large landlords and management firms.
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Rent control gets held up as a generic answer to high housing costs, but people often aren’t clear about what problem, exactly, they believe rent control is intended to solve.
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Landlords may no longer be “land lords” in the historical sense, but they are still charged with a great number of responsibilities at a deeply local level—so, what does it mean to be a good steward of the land?
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Beth Silverman is working on a non-traditional—and very successful—approach to housing affordability.
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Conflating the one with the other keeps us from understanding the housing market in a coherent way. Here’s why.
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Not every problem associated with housing is directly a supply or scarcity issue, but housing scarcity is real, and it tends to make just about all the other problems associated with housing worse.
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In many cities, supply of commercial spaces far outstripped demand even before the pandemic. Clustering businesses together can be good for consumers, good for business owners, and good for landlords too.
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California recently passed a bill that is supposed to help tenants facing soaring rents. Here’s how it could have the opposite effect—not only hurting renters but making the state’s housing crisis even worse.
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