Category: Hotels

Entrepreneurial barracks: Part 2, the furious future?

17 July, 2012 (10:08) | Apartments, Cities, dormitories, Entrepreneur, hostels, Hotels, Housing, Innovations, Rental, Rooming Houses, San Francisco, Tenure |

[Continued from yesterday's Part 1.]   By:David A. Smith   Yesterday’s post introduced us, via an aren’t-they-clever little story from the New York Times, so some enterprising young Californian women who’ve started running a chain of white-collar crash pads for aspiring tech entrepreneurs who’d eschew eating and sleeping altogether if they could, and if they [...]

Entrepreneurial barracks: Part 1, the blithe present

16 July, 2012 (11:41) | Apartments, Cities, dormitories, Entrepreneur, hostels, Hotels, Housing, Innovations, Rental, Rooming Houses, San Francisco, Tenure | 1 comment

By:David A. Smith   Look – over in Silicon Valley.  It’s a hotel!  It’s a rooming house!  It’s an apartment!   No, it’s … Superdorm?   Whatever this unusual living accommodation is, it’s serving a need and creating a business, as revealed in this gee-whiz article from the New York Times:   Crammed Into Cheap [...]

Rent as social self-defense

23 February, 2012 (09:17) | Apartments, Guest, Hotels, Markets, New York City, Rental, Second homes, Theory, Vacation homes |

By:David A. Smith   Some restrictions may apply   Mi casa es su casa, we say in our mangled Spanglish, but what do we mean?  As Kathleen Hughes of the Wall Street Journal (October 31, 2011) discovered, one never has no many friends as when one has property they covet:   We love our friends [...]

Out of zoning’s straitjacket: Part 3, the future begins tomorrow

16 December, 2011 (13:23) | Apartments, Condominiums, Configuration, Finance, Homelessness, Hotels, Innovations, Rooming Houses, Zoning |

 By:David A. Smith   [Continued from yesterday's Part 2 and the preceding Part 1.]   By the end of yesterday’s post, using a perceptive New York Times article from Michael Kimmelman, we have demonstrated that New York City’s zoning codes (and, for that matter, all of America’s) are hopelessly antiquated relative to the effervescent variety of American households and [...]

Out of zoning’s straitjacket: Part 2, nothing like the present

15 December, 2011 (13:15) | Apartments, Condominiums, Configuration, Finance, Homelessness, Hotels, Innovations, Rooming Houses, Zoning |

By:David A. Smith   [Continued from yesterday's Part 1.]   Yesterday’s post used a New York Times article (whose author, Michael Kimmelman, repeatedly hints that he realizes the story should be about more than the simple case of one interesting SRO in the Bronx) to launch an exploration of the invisible tyranny of zoning and [...]