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The mayors of 14 major cities are joining with a number of CEOs to call on the federal government to invest more money into affordable housing and homeless services. The coalition is launching an effort called “Mayors & CEOs for U.S. Housing Investment,” which the group bills as a “first-of-its-kind coalition of local government and business leaders collaborating to advance public-private partnerships that tackle affordable housing and homelessness and actively oppose current funding cuts.” The group includes the mayors of Los Angeles, Oakland, Sacramento, San Diego, and San Francisco, California; Mesa and Phoenix, Arizona; Little Rock, Arkansas; Aurora and Denver, Colorado;... Read more
While officials currently at the highest levels of government may be delaying or undoing initiatives to end housing segregation, local public housing authorities now...
If your company operates a building in Scottsdale, Ariz., you might have some of the happiest residents in the country. Apartment List recently released the results of...
The latest single-family rental research from Morningstar Credit Ratings, LLC shows the rental market following familiar trends in the closing months of 2017, with...
Perhaps in the not-so-distant future, the days of negligent landlords will be behind us. The City of Detroit announced a plan to bring rental properties up to code, zip...
We’ve all heard the mind-numbing statistics about the increases in online shopping – and the related shipping it generates. Amazon Prime alone boasted earlier this month that it shipped 5 billion packages in 2017. Now add in grocery and meal box deliveries and, well, we’re talking about an avalanche of packages. Increasingly, that avalanche is burying the management offices of apartment buildings, leaving building owners looking for a way to dig out. Bloomington-based Doran Cos. thinks it has found an answer. For about the last three years the prolific apartment developer has been adding an automated locker system to its new projects, including The Moline, a 239-unit building in... Read more
The legalization of small amounts of recreational pot raises important questions for landlords and property professionals, and local governments. How much marijuana...
The movement to repeal the Costa Hawkins Vacancy Decontrol Law has been derailed in the California legislature. This is the most hotly contested proposed real...
Image via Pixabay If you own a rental property and it’s consistently vacant, you are losing money. Without the rental income, you are paying for insurance, taxes, and...
Renovate your concept of flipping a home by teaming up with a real estate agent. Flipping houses isn’t just about visualizing how to change a home; it’s also about...
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