December 4: What we’re reading
Some articles we found interesting this week:
Editor’s Note: We usually try to limit the number of articles in each newsletter, but we found too many relevant to the Raleigh environment over the last two weeks. Hopefully, you will find them as interesting as we did.
How a ‘Golden Era for Large Cities’ Might Be Turning Into an ‘Urban Doom Loop.’ What seemed like a transitory step to avoid infection has become a major force driving the future direction of urban America. Read more in the New York Times.
Housing Breaks People’s Brains: Supply skepticism and shortage denialism are pushing against the actual solution to the housing crisis: building enough homes. Read more in The Atlantic.
Luxury Homes in the Triangle Keep Selling. Read more from WRAL.
Though not legal in North Carolina, this is an interesting article about how Portland, Maine passed a rent control ordinance. Read more from Shelterforce.
These NC cities rank among the nation’s best places to work remotely. Here’s why, from the News & Observer.
Home Prices Drop for Third Straight Month as US Market Cools, via Bloomberg.
US Housing Enters Deep Freeze With Sellers and Buyers Sidelined, via Bloomberg.
Including On-Time Rental Payment History in Credit Scoring Could Help Narrow the Black-White Homeownership Gap, via The Urban Institute.
Influencers, Bias, and Equity in Rezoning Cases, also via The Urban Institute.
First Time Buyers Face Brutal Housing Market, via the New York Times.
"Collapse" in home prices is coming, experts say, Axios reports.
Millennials are flocking to Raleigh, according to the Greensboro News & Record.
The US Needs more Housing than Almost Anyone can Imagine, via The Atlantic.
The Racists Next Door: Black Homebuyers Face Discrimination After Purchasing, Too. Read more from Shelterforce.
Department of Justice Opens Investigation Into Real Estate Tech Company Accused of Collusion with Landlords, ProPublica reports.
Recycling Our Cities One Building at a Time, via Bloomberg.
Raleigh’s Skyrocketing Rents are Finally Cooling Down, reports the News & Observer.
Real Estate Investors are Fleeing Pandemic Boomtowns, from Business Insider.
With a long local waitlist, ‘portability’ of Section 8 vouchers from other states draws concern, Hawaii News Now reports.
Is Raleigh More Affordable than Charlotte? Via TBJ.
Community Reflects on Effort to Preserve Raleigh’s Seaboard Station. Read more from INDY Week.
Here is an Interesting Study from Fannie Mae Comparing Various Local Housing Markets with Respect to Affordability and Supply Issues. Read it here.
The Urban Institute recently released a report exploring how to make community land use planning more accessible and equitable. Read it here.
Bike share programs prove resilient. Read more from Bloomberg.
What comes next after abolishing parking mandates? Read more.
The NIMBYs come for North Carolina, in the Carolina Journal.
Multigenerational living is likely to become more prevalent in coming years. Here is an interesting article about the history of exclusionary zoning practices and how zoning codes used the definition of “family” to make it difficult for multigenerational families to live together. Read it in the Washington Post.
Potential Federal legislation could target the growing challenge of “corporate” landlords, “The Stop Wall Street Landlords Act.” More in Vox.