Housing Market
A survey of land use policies in cities and counties of California is designed to inform a more complete understanding of the housing market, sustainability, and economic mobility in the state.
UC Berkeley College of Environmental Design
A 2018 law required Airbnb to share the names and addresses of hosts in the New York City. A judge ruled that the mandate violates the 4th Amendment.
Daily News
Tech companies that use algorithms to make rapid offers on a large scale are growing players in the U.S. housing market.
Los Angeles Times
All over the country, housing markets are faced with too much supply, too little supply, and just the right of supply.
Brookings
The Los Angeles City Council approved significant new regulation of short-term rentals, available on platforms like Airbnb, earlier this week.
Los Angeles Times
Renton, a suburb of Seattle dealing with skyrocketing housing prices like many of the communities in the region, is allowing new density in residential neighborhoods in the form of backyard cottages.
Crosscut
Correction: Airbnb is diversifying its housing business.
Fast Company
Blog post
Arnab Chakraborty of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Andrew McMillan of the University of Maryland College Park guest blog about a recent article in the Journal of Planning Education and Research.
New analysis from RENTCafe finds apartments shrinking while prices are expanding.
CNBC
High prices and rising mortgage rates are called a "toxic cocktail" for the homebuilding industry.
CNBC
An analysis of how flooding, the most frequent and costliest natural disaster in the U.S., will cause stress to the housing market in coming decades.
Penn IUR Urban Link
Experts say China has the highest vacancy rate on residential units of any country in the world. The roots of the problem lay in housing speculation, according to China's leaders.
Bloomberg
A City Council decision on short-term rental regulations reverses the decision of the City Planning Commission.
Los Angeles Times
There are signs of normalcy in the Seattle region's housing market.
The Seattle Times
As California voters consider a ballot initiative that would greatly expand rent control around the state, researchers are working to inform the populace about rent control.
USC Dornsife
As more cities grapple with the growth of short-term rentals, trends in regulation are beginning to emerge.
Pew Stateline
A biting opinion piece asks why Californians would want to worsen the effects of Proposition 13 by voting yes on Proposition 5.
Los Angeles Times
You can pay off the mortgage, but you can never leave.
The New York Times
One way to increase housing supply is to make it cheaper to building multi-family housing, like Toronto recently decided to do.
CTV News Toronto
The findings of a new report might run counter to common perceptions about Cleveland's shrinking population. Downtown Cleveland could, and should, provide more housing opportunities, according to the report.
The Plain Dealer
