2021
"New data shows San Francisco apartment rents on the rise, just as the city reopens"
“…While year-over-year rents dropped 26% in San Francisco, rental prices increased 1.2% in February from January, producing a median one-bedroom rent of $2,010.”
...More"West Oakland development would add more than 200 units of housing"
Part of the developing transit village near West Oakland’s Mandela Station will go before city officials Wednesday as developer The Michaels Organization looks for the green light to move ahead with construction.
...More"Covid Migration: Temporary, young, economically insecure"
There’s relatively little migration in the wake of Covid-19
Most Covid-related migration is temporary, involves moving in with friends or relatives, and not leaving a metro area
...More"We’re all going back to offices — most of us anyway"
I was speaking with a writer from the Globe & Mail today about the future of office. We were half talking about a new AAA strata office building … And we were half talking about whether or not we’re all going to return to offices.
...More"California Is Making Liberals Squirm"
If progressivism can’t work there, why should the country believe it can work anywhere else?
...More"Building for the homeless without government help"
Private-sector plan enlists nonprofits, churches
From the fourth-floor rooftop patio on East Vernon Avenue, Los Angeles is a 360-degree panorama: to the north, the skyscrapers of downtown; to the south, the Palos Verdes Peninsula; to the west, the Santa Monica Mountains; to the east, snow-capped Mt. Baldy.
...More"A place in the sun"
One consequence of Covid has been plunging rents in cities across the world, as tenants flock out of city centres and the long-term rental market is flooded with former Airbnb properties. This has left tenants jubilant, and landlords panicked.
...More"Did the COVID-19 Pandemic Cause an Urban Exodus?"
“…Out-migration did increase in many urban neighborhoods, but the magnitudes probably would not fit most definitions of an exodus. What is certain is that hundreds of thousands of people who would have moved into an urban neighborhood in a typical year were unwilling or unable to do so in 2020.”
...More"The Surprising Boom In Pandemic Co-Living"
Experts expected the pandemic to potentially deal a death blow to co-living, amid social distancing and fears of proximity to others.
But as the pandemic stretched on, growing demand for a sense of community to battle loneliness has spurred a surge in co-living. The industry is now poised to expand exponentially.
...More"Can knowledge industries escape superstar cities?"
I am a digital nomad. Bloomberg allows me to work from anywhere; I get much of my best writing done when I’m in Japan, working out of cafes or at a friend’s co-working space.
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