January 16, 2018
Using Your Security Deposit for Rent
Realtor.com quoted me in Can You Use Your Security Deposit as Last Month’s Rent? Find the Answer Here. It opens, Can you use your security deposit as last month’s rent? This question is common among tenants vacating their apartments, and for very good reason: … Continue reading
January 16, 2018 in Rental Housing | Permalink | No Comments
December 14, 2017
State of America’s Rental Housing
The Joint Center for Housing Studies of Harvard University has released America’s Rental Housing 2017. I was a bit surprised that the report spent so little time addressing the types of restrictive zoning that depress the supply of new rental … Continue reading
December 14, 2017 in Rental Housing | Permalink | No Comments
December 8, 2017
Single-Family Rental Securitizations Here To Stay?
Kroll Bond Rating Agency has released Single-Borrower SFR: Comprehensive Surveillance Report. It has lots of interesting tidbits about this new real estate finance sector (it has only been four years since its first securitization): Six single-family rental operators own nearly 180,000 … Continue reading
December 8, 2017 in Rental Housing | Permalink | No Comments
October 12, 2017
Rental Housing Landscape
NYU’s Furman Center released its 2017 National Rental Housing Landscape. My two takeaways are that, compared to the years before the financial crisis, (1) many tenants remain rent burdened and (2) higher income households are renting more. These takeaways have … Continue reading
October 12, 2017 in Rental Housing | Permalink | No Comments
June 28, 2017
Addressing NYC’s Affordable Housing Crisis
The NYC Rent Guidelines Board (of which I am a member) held a public hearing as part of its final vote on rent adjustments for the approximately one million dwelling units subject to the Rent Stabilization Law in New York City. … Continue reading
June 28, 2017 in Rental Housing | Permalink | No Comments
June 22, 2017
State of the Nation’s Housing 2017
Harvard’s Joint Center for Housing Studies has released its excellent State of the Nation’s Housing for 2017, with many important insights. The executive summary reads, in part, A decade after the onset of the Great Recession, the national housing market … Continue reading
June 22, 2017 in Rental Housing | Permalink | No Comments
June 12, 2017
Poverty in NYC
NYU’s Furman Center has released its annual State of New York City’s Housing and Neighborhoods along with a focus on Poverty in New York City. The State of the City report is always of great value but each year’s focus … Continue reading
June 12, 2017 in Rental Housing | Permalink | No Comments
