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
June 8, 2017
Securitizing Single-Family Rentals
Laurie Goodman and Karan Kaul of the Urban Institute’ Housing Finance Policy Center have issued a a paper on GSE Financing of Single-Family Rentals. They write, Fannie Mae recently completed the first government-sponsored enterprise (GSE) securitization of single-family rental (SFR) properties … Continue reading
June 8, 2017 in Rental Housing | Permalink | No Comments
June 1, 2017
Dorms for Grownups
The Bridge quoted me in Why Dorms for Grownups Are a New Way of Life. It opens, If you think applying to Stanford or MIT is a long shot, consider the odds of landing a spot in a Brooklyn co-living residence. … Continue reading
June 1, 2017 in Rental Housing | Permalink | 1 Comment
