Category Archives: Press

Musings from the Rental Market.

Many of the discussions of housing markets are either abstract or focus heavily on particular issues (zoning, affordable housing policy). A very useful perspective emerges from looking over the shoulder of those who daily invest (or advise those who invest) especially in multifamily housing.

Small-scale apartment and condo buildings would offer accessible homes with elevators in more Oregon towns and neighborhoods. Four key policy changes would make this possible.

Buyers are ditching mortgages at the highest level in decades to win out in the Bay Area’s ultracompetitive housing market

If you’re reading this, there’s a very good chance you’ve seen this famous image of three iterations of SpaceX’s Raptor rocket engine. The Raptor engine was developed for SpaceX’s Starship spacecraft (the Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy use the Merlin engine);

One common yardstick for a California high school is how well it helps students gain admission to the most selective University of California campuses. But judging schools by raw admission rates alone can be misleading. Schools that enroll larger shares of students from high-income families and fewer students with disabilities, for example, tend to send more students to UC campuses regardless of school quality.

When a small space needs to feel a little bigger, mirrors are a good place to start. They bounce light, create depth and make even the smallest of rooms feel more open. From the expected to the unexpected, here are some of our favourite ways to use them to make your small space work harder.

YIMBYs, people in the housing abundance movement, do not have a pope or a set of sacred authoritative texts you can consult to find out what we think about things.

But if you asked me what YIMBYism is, I would say our big idea is that if some land is zoned for human development…

According to California’s statewide housing plan, the state needs to build just over 300,000 new homes each year to catch up with demand. Yet it consistently falls short of this goal.

Doug Thompson had already applied for roughly 30 homes in two months when an Oakland landlord invited him to make his best offer.

Why the most popular housing policy keeps failing the people it’s written for — a story told through an earthquake, a monsoon, a forty‑year waiting list, and a landlord who wanted his tenant to shovel snow.