July 5, 2016
Dems Favor Land Use Reform
The Democratic Party has released its draft 2016 Policy Platform. Its housing platform follows in its entirety. I find the highlighted clause particularly intriguing and discuss it below. Where Donald Trump rooted for the housing crisis, Democrats will continue to fight … Continue reading
July 5, 2016 in Rental Housing | Permalink | No Comments
June 17, 2016
New Housing and Displacement
The Institute of Governmental Studies at UC Berkeley has issued a research brief, Housing Production, Filtering and Displacement: Untangling the Relationships. It opens, Debate over the relative importance of subsidized and market-rate housing production in alleviating the current housing crisis … Continue reading
June 17, 2016 in Rental Housing | Permalink | No Comments
June 10, 2016
The High Cost of Living in NOLA
Occupy.com quoted me in For Struggling Renters in New Orleans, Hope May Be Coming A Bit Late. It opens, Twenty-four-year old Stuart Marino is a finance major at University of New Orleans with $8,000 in student loan debt and 33 … Continue reading
June 10, 2016 in Rental Housing | Permalink | No Comments
June 3, 2016
Trump, Sanders and Housing Policy
I had earlier blogged about Hillary Clinton’s housing policy positions. Today, I turn to those of Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders. Amazingly (or, perhaps, completely unsurprisingly), their housing policies present microcosms of their … Continue reading
June 3, 2016 in Rental Housing | Permalink | No Comments
May 12, 2016
The Single-Family Rental Revolution Continues
The Kroll Bond Rating Agency has released its Single-Borrower SFR: Comprehensive Surveillance Report: Kroll Bond Rating Agency (KBRA) recently completed a comprehensive surveillance review of its rated universe of 23 single-borrower, single-family rental (SFR) securitizations. In connection with these transactions, 132 … Continue reading
May 12, 2016 in Rental Housing | Permalink | No Comments
May 10, 2016
Gentrification in NYC
The NYU Furman Center released its annual State of New York City’s Housing and Neighborhoods (2015). This year’s report focused on gentrification: “Gentrification” has become the accepted term to describe neighborhoods that start off predominantly occupied by households of relatively low … Continue reading
May 10, 2016 in Rental Housing | Permalink | No Comments
May 4, 2016
The Rental Crisis and Household Formation
The Mortgage Bankers Association has posted a Special Report: Diverted Homeowners, the Rental Crisis and Foregone Household Formation. The report’s bottom line is that people who should have been homeowners have displaced people who should have been renters. Those displaced people have been left … Continue reading
May 4, 2016 in Rental Housing | Permalink | No Comments
