America's Apartment Shortage: 8 Million Units
The 2014 National Realtor's Survey asked consumers for preferences in housing and neighborhood types. Although preferences trended toward the suburban, the number of people who want to live in urban...
View ArticleMultifamily Evolution: From 'Train Wreck' to Urban
In the 1990s, U.S. multifamily developers offered all the disadvantages of density without the advantages of urbanism.Publication Date: Mon, 04/14/2014
View ArticleMaking Multifamily Truly Urban
On Monday, I reported that many more multifamily units are being built on street grids, which offer important amenities to residents. Instead of density attached to a congested arterial road, urban...
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Retrofitting New York City's Multi-Family Housing for Resilience
"A new report from New York University’s Furman Center underscores the challenges of retrofitting New York City’s multifamily housing stock…against the threat of rising sea levels and extreme weather...
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Want an Electric Vehicle but Live in an Apartment?
San Francisco, one of the greenest cities in the country, is not coincidentally also one of the densest, which poses difficulties should an apartment dweller want to lease or purchase an electric...
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Long Island Searching for Direction
Drawing from research published by the Long Island Index project, Tanvi Mishra reportsPublication Date: Thu, 02/12/2015
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Re-Evaluating Pasadena's City of Gardens Ordinance
In February 1989, the city of Pasadena adopted the City of Gardens Ordinance, a set of zoning regulations introducing courtyard housing as the sole multi-family type in transitional single-family...
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The Wind Eyes: Designing for Natural Ventilation in Multi-Family Buildings
As cities provide incentives for density, it's important that new multi-family buildings implement best practices for natural ventilation to achieve quality of life and energy efficiency benefits.
View ArticleSan Antonio Outpaces Austin in Millennial Growth
"For the first time in, well, forever, the rate of millennials moving to San Antonio has edged out the hip Texas metro [of Austin]," reports Katie Burke. "According to a Bloomberg report, San Antonio...
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Luxury Multi-Family Housing Boom Creates Scarcity in Other Markets
"Modest apartment buildings like the Verona [in Aurora, Colorado] that cater to middle-class and working-class families are becoming scarcer as fewer are built nationwide and older ones are...
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Why the McMansion Isn't Really Back
A piece for City Observatory takes issue with those who claim "that the 'death of the McMansion' has been highly exaggerated." [...] "A closer reading shows that the apparent surge in McMansions is...
View ArticleSt. Louis' Multi-Family Market Ready for Takeoff
"While big new construction announcements have been grabbing most of the headlines (and the numbers are big) at nextSTL lately, the latest numbers show that 2015 isPublication Date: Mon, 12/21/2015
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Report Details Multi-Family Housing Gap on Long Island
"Regional Plan Association, HR&A Advisors Inc., and the Rauch Foundation released new researcPublication Date: Thu, 02/04/2016
View ArticleAmerica's Apartment Shortage: 8 Million Units
The 2014 National Realtor's Survey asked consumers for preferences in housing and neighborhood types. Although preferences trended toward the suburban, the number of people who want to live in urban...
View ArticleMultifamily Evolution: From 'Train Wreck' to Urban
In the 1990s, U.S. multifamily developers offered all the disadvantages of density without the advantages of urbanism.Publication Date: Mon, 04/14/2014
View ArticleMaking Multifamily Truly Urban
On Monday, I reported that many more multifamily units are being built on street grids, which offer important amenities to residents. Instead of density attached to a congested arterial road, urban...
View ArticleRetrofitting New York City's Multi-Family Housing for Resilience
"A new report from New York University’s Furman Center underscores the challenges of retrofitting New York City’s multifamily housing stock…against the threat of rising sea levels and extreme weather...
View ArticleWant an Electric Vehicle but Live in an Apartment?
San Francisco, one of the greenest cities in the country, is not coincidentally also one of the densest, which poses difficulties should an apartment dweller want to lease or purchase an electric...
View ArticleLong Island Searching for Direction
Drawing from research published by the Long Island Index project, Tanvi Mishra reportsPublication Date: Thu, 02/12/2015
View ArticleRe-Evaluating Pasadena's City of Gardens Ordinance
In February 1989, the city of Pasadena adopted the City of Gardens Ordinance, a set of zoning regulations introducing courtyard housing as the sole multi-family type in transitional single-family...
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