New Orleans No matter how much sugar they put in your coffee, be very prepared to be worried about an additional trend in corporate housing speculation: flipping is back, bad and hard! In a contradictory, “what me worry,” “how can this be bad” story in the Wall Street Journal the reporter noted that the …
Tag: affordable housing
Inclusionary Zoning Lite and Little
New Orleans Catching up on back papers I found both the interesting and the disappointing. Let’s start by keeping it positive and look at something called RentCheck, which is an application designed for tenants, but gaining some support by landlords, finding it useful enough that they have downloaded it in 40 US states and seven …
Corporate Ownership is Squeezing Rents in Some Cities
Milwaukee Looking city to city, part of what is driving rents up to record highs and exacerbating the affordable housing crisis is the critical intrusion of large corporate ownership of single-family homes in some markets in addition to larger developments where they have always been a factor. The ACORN Home Savers Campaign has monitored this …