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
April 26, 2016
Preserving Affordable Housing
Alexander von Hoffman of the Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies has posted an interesting working paper, To Preserve Affordable Housing in the United States. It opens, Most Americans who have any idea about low-income housing policy in the United … Continue reading
April 26, 2016 in Rental Housing | Permalink | No Comments
March 29, 2016
Buying Into The Sexiest Real Estate
Newsmax quoted me in How to Buy and Sell in the Sexiest of Real Estate Markets. It opens, With the opening of the 7 subway station at 34th Street last year, more than 100 shops and 5,000 residences, the Hudson Yards neighborhood … Continue reading
March 29, 2016 in Rental Housing | Permalink | No Comments
March 3, 2016
The State of Moderate-Income Housing
The Center for Housing Policy’s most recent issue of Housing Landscape gives its 2016 Annual Look at The Housing Affordability Challenges of America’s Working Households (my discussion of the Center’s 2015 report is here). it opens, Millions of working households face big challenges in … Continue reading
March 3, 2016 in Rental Housing | Permalink | No Comments
February 9, 2016
Bold New Housing Plan?
Enterprise Community Partners has released An Investment in Opportunity: A Bold New Vision for Housing Policy in the U.S. I thought it would be useful to highlight its specific proposals to make rental housing affordable for low-income households: I. ENSURE BROAD ACCESS TO … Continue reading
February 9, 2016 in Rental Housing | Permalink | No Comments
