Geography of Income Equality and Gentrification
In a truly global market, the price of real estate doesn't necessarily reflect the ability of those living in the area to afford it.
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Explaining Gentrification: Real Estate Bubble Trouble in Stockholm
As the problems in Sweden's capital demonstrate, the issue of housing supply isn't nearly as critical as that of housing demand.
Explaining Gentrification: Geography of Knowledge Hubs
Of course a growing population indicates a growing demand for housing. But around knowledge hubs, which act as agents of gentrification, population can actually decrease while demand for quality changes.
Do We Need to Force People to Live in the Homes They Own?
With more and more individual investors looking to real estate as just another money-making commodity to add to their portfolio, rents are being driven to unreachable heights for all but the wealthiest among us.
Geography of the Legacy Economy: Mapping the Next Boom
With real estate markets tapped out in primary markets, investors will look to secondary ones—Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Phoenix—with legacy assets.
Walkability Boondoggle
Making your city walkable isn't enough to attract and retain talent. People follow jobs, not sidewalks.
Hong Kong Is Dying
The quality of demographics carries greater weight than the quantity, and the Pearl of the Orient, while dense, is aging rapidly.
Facebook and Google Are Gentrifying San Francisco Neighborhoods
It's the only place they can fit all of their employees.
Dan Quayle Returns as 3-Headed Dog, Goes Into Real Estate
A political revolving door case raises eyebrows in Europe.
How the Trailer Park Could Save Us All
A healthy, inexpensive, environmentally friendly solution for housing millions of retiring baby boomers is staring us in the face. We just know it by a dirty name.