Real Estate Market
Qualifying developments are eligible for a ten-year tax abatement in Philadelphia. These op-ed authors say the abatement doesn't work as anything other than a government payout.
The Philadelphia Inquirer
Is the gritty, diverse New York of yesteryear dying, vanishing, or otherwise ceasing to exist? Depends on who you ask and where you look.
Harper's
Soaring land values are leaving an indelible mark on the building stock of Vancouver, British Columbia.
Business Vancouver
It's the 30th annual edition of the Joint Center for Housing Studies of Harvard University's "State of the Nation's Housing" report.
Joint Center for Housing Studies
A little less emphasis on the suburban, and a little more emphasis on the urban.
Chicago Tribune
New York City is seeing an adjustment in the rental market as landlords struggle to compete for renters in a suddenly crowded market.
Bloomberg
More people live in multi-generational homes than ever, according to analysis of Census data by the Pew Research Center.
The Washington Post
Spoiler alert: the rent will go up in whatever city Amazon chooses for the site of its second headquarters.
Zillow Research
Ordinary homeowners are beginning to factor climate change into the home-buying decisions in Miami.
The Wall Street Journal
Is this the future that Baby Boomers envisioned?
Quartz
Tenants' rights advocacy groups around the country are gaining steam, and supporters, as more and more renters are experiencing the shocks of an over-priced housing market.
The Nation
There has been precious little progress over the past 50 years in bridging gaps of inequality for Black Americans.
The Washington Post
Residential construction activity hummed at a higher level in January 2018 than any point in all of 2017, according to newly released federal data.
Globe St
Call it buyer beware: the real estate website Trulia is offering a new tool to helps house hunters evaluate whether communities discriminate against the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender residents.
Trulia
Researchers from Arizona State University have produced a new working paper that examines efforts to attract and retain Millennials to downtown neighborhoods in Houston and Phoenix.
The Urban Edge
A big data dump from Trulia, supplemented by helpful analysis, helps make sense of the U.S. rental market.
Trulia
A controversial proposal has incited new debate about the causes of Vancouver's skyrocketing housing prices. Potential solutions depend on an accurate diagnosis.
CBC News
Examining the growing demand for alley homes in Washington, D.C.—where alleys were once considered "evil."
The Washington Post
A proposed ballot initiative in California would extend the property tax limits offered by Proposition 13 as a lifetime benefit to homeowners over age 55 or severely disabled—even if they move to a new home in another part of the state.
The Mercury News
Nashville stakeholders are increasingly concerned by a post-Recession wave of real estate investment trusts buying up all the housing stock in neighborhoods gutted by the foreclosure crisis. The trend extends to other Sun Belt cities as well.
Tennessean
