Category: Rent control
5 June, 2013 (15:26) | arcologies, Cambridge, Cyprus, Development, Eurozone, Global news, GSEs, Housing, Innovations, Month in review, New York City, Non-Profits, Rent control, Uncategorized, US News | No comments
[Previous Month in Reviews available here: Mar 13, Feb 13, Jan 13] By:David A. Smith Lately many of my multi-part posts have sought to make visible the linkages between things that sectoral policymakers seem to see as entirely unrelated. Thus in the Big Apple, I connected the dots between a sudden urban interest [...]
10 May, 2013 (09:00) | Apartments, Development, Economics, Green, New York City, Rent control, Zoning | No comments
By:David A. Smith Though the purpose of journalism is principally to report, now and then one wishes that reporters who observe effects would see them in the context of their causes, as in this story from the Financial Times (March 12, 2013): Things are connected, you know Housing crisis deepens for New [...]
12 April, 2013 (10:03) | Affordability, Apartments, Configuration, Corruption, Innovations, Markets, New York, Rent control, rentals, San Francisco, Urbanization, US News |
[Continued from yesterday's Part 2 and the preceding Part 1.] By:David A. Smith By mixing and matching snippets from three stories – the New York Post (March 30, 2013) (brown font), the San Francisco Chronicle (November 20, 2012) (blue font), and Bloomberg (January 29, 2013) (green font) – we’ve been able to see [...]
11 April, 2013 (13:59) | Affordability, Apartments, Configuration, Corruption, Innovations, Markets, New York, Rent control, rentals, Urbanization, US News |
[Continued from yesterday's Part 1.] By:David A. Smith Yesterday’s post brought us cheerful CAD/CAM renderings of innovative micro-scale apartments being pioneered in New York and San Francisco, two cities that combine heavy-headed development restrictions and skyrocketing rents, the relationship between which is revealed only when one lines up three different stories, specifically the [...]
10 April, 2013 (17:27) | Affordability, Apartments, Configuration, Corruption, Innovations, Markets, New York, Rent control, rentals, San Francisco, Urbanization, US News |
By:David A. Smith Just as a single data point does not make a trend, an individual news story stands by itself, but when we add another point, the resulting line becomes a new dimension, and a third point makes a plane in two dimensions, so it wasn’t until I read this story in the [...]