From the Field: More Single-Family Please
My friend Joe Nabbefeld has a great post from the front lines of the real estate game at the Daily Journal of Commerce. Nabbefeld reports that people hunting for single-family homes are facing a struggle. What’s the solution? It’s simple economics: Lower price by increasing supply. Supply supply supply. As we’ve pointed out before, the […]
Ready to Work on Microhousing Legislation
Here is our extensive response to proposed microhousing legislation. The bottom line is that if the legislation passes in its current form, the people who want to see microhousing end will likely have won. The myriad of requirements together with design review will essentially incentivize building fewer, larger apartments which will cost more. Building microhousing […]
More Housing Means More Diversity
The idea that increasing housing supply creates more housing opportunity and positively affects price is one that many of us accept as axiomatic – if we make more housing people have more choices and prices will stabilize or fall. But how does increased housing supply and availability impact ethnic diversity?We’ve already seen evidence that growth […]
