Why Top Talent Must Flee Silicon Valley
In order for tech workers to cash out on home equity, Proposition 13 forces them to move to another state.
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How AirBnB Threatens Urban Creative Space
The end result of an AirBnB'd neighborhood is not a profitable artist collective; it's an international bedroom community of "post-tourist" upwardly mobile workers.
The New Geography of Jobs: Talent Production Versus Knowledge Production
Pittsburgh is the best place in the United States to flip property. What explains the real estate boom?
In Defense of Rent Control
Rent control has long been criticized by economists, but the list of theoretical harms often aren't observable in reality. With a lack of serious public housing funding, the policy may be one of the best, and cheapest, ways to protect low-income families.
A New Theory on San Francisco’s Inequality Problem
A graduate student is giving French economist Thomas Piketty a run for his money while re-imagining the worst culprit of inequality.
University as Real Estate Developer
Property value displaces tuition as a revenue stream for higher education.
One of the Biggest Banks in the Country Is Being Sued for Racial Discrimination
An unusual lawsuit against M&T Bank draws on secret videotapes and recordings to argue that the bank’s loan officers discriminated against blacks, Latinos, and Asians who applied for mortgages.
How Local Assets Become Global Assets
Separate a real estate market into two parts: investors and occupiers.
Not Everything Should Be Crowdfunded
The explosion of real estate investment start-ups gives us a peek into the dangers of peer-to-peering everything.
Did Sheldon Silver Betray New York Renters?
Prosecutors allege the state assembly speaker made changes to rent regulation on behalf of a developer.