April 16th – Backlog

What I'm Reading Backlog: During COVID, many US courts stopped functioning for months before adopting new technologies to move cases through, albeit more slowly than before.  At the same time, cases including landlord-tenant disputes, foreclosures, contract disputes, tax appeals, partnership settlements have been piling up.  Experts fear that once courts...

April 14th – Scapegoat

What I'm Reading Scapegoat: Luxury housing developments are often vilified by NIMBYs.  However, they play an important role in the housing ecosystem.  In a market that is functioning properly, today's new luxury unit is tomorrow's move-up and, if not enough new units are built, the fixed housing supply gets bid...

April 5th – Chugging Along

What I'm Reading Chugging Along: The Zillow-Case Shiller Housing Price Forecast showed a 12% YoY increase in February, up from 11.2% in January, with the authors of the forecast commenting that there appears to be "no end in sight."  At some point, I have to imagine that rising mortgage rates...

March 31st – All For One

What I'm Reading Halt: As expected, the CDC extended their eviction ban residential evictions until the end of June.  However, the extension makes no substantive changes to the policy, despite housing advocates pushing the administration to boost enforcement measures to prevent landlords from going around the moratorium.  Politico  Next Wave's...