November at Forbes
I have four new posts up at Forbes covering mostly rental housing issues but also homelessness and commercial rent collection. Here’s the headlines and a precis for each. Will Private Rental Housing Survive Covid-19 Eviction Hyperbole?The Colorado Apartment Association has been razor sharp in cutting through the fake news coming from people (mostly eviction defense […]
Back to Basics:Where to After the Election?
Here’s a long reflective after-election post on how we might rescue some basic principles and rethink our approach to how we make policy. If we believe in a free market system for housing, we’ve got to anchor it something deeper than next quarter’s internal rates of return or whether we got a “better bill” in […]
Nothing Changes on November 3rd If We Don’t
Next week’s election is certainly the most controversial and worried about election in my lifetime.What does the election mean for housing in this country? In many respects, the answer is, “Not much.” The Trump administration, many states, and local governments of all political stripes have imposed eviction bans that run until the end of the […]
