Land
Dirt And Demand: Connect The Dots Of Development To Come
When supply falls well below theoretical demand, comparing the "supply" of incomes to the "supply" of homes becomes essential. If prices rise while volume falls, that is an affordability crisis, not necessarily a housing industry problem.
Land
Metro Magnetic: Pencilling How Much Commute Will Compute
Land acquisition strategy's challenge of the moment is to decipher signals vs. noise, reactiveness vs. initiation, impulse vs. intention as households shape geography's future.
Land
Drive 'Til You Qualify Gets A Work-From-Anywhere Makeover
How powerfully will the blended allure of desirably-priced housing and liberation from a daily commute move people to move, predictably?
Policy
Six Impossible Housing Ideas: Unmasking Local Land-Use Policy
The thinking that brings you new local land-use “tools in the toolbox” – inclusionary housing, affordable housing fees, tax credits for buyers -- will not bring you homes for more people.
Land
Mobility: What It Was, What It Is And What It May Never Be Again
Our market-rate housing business community is too enamored of trend flavor-of-the-month prognostications, self-assurances, and full-steam-ahead wagers, based largely on seat-of-the-pants reckoning and pure guesswork.
Leadership
The Future Is Now: Lead, Don't Wallow
The capability challenge, our Dream Team posits, can only be solved through the embrace of data, technology, process and a pivot to collaboration in a dog-eat-dog culture.