Apartment Guide dives into the most popular words in apartment community names. The average name of an apartment community has under two and a half words. Apartment Guide reviewed communities listed on their website and found “park” was the most common word in a communities’ name. “Park” appeared on more…
Author: Rebecca McLean
A recent report from CNBC’s Diana Olick says demand for Student Housing this year is up over 2%, even in the midst of the coronavirus epidemic. She also points out that 70% of students live in off-campus housing. Click here to watch on CNBC.com.
A recent report from Bloomberg is highlighting how rents across the nation are rising at record speeds. They point out that the number of occupied rental-apartment units rose by about 500k in Q2, the biggest annual increase in data going back to 1993 (according to data from RealPage) as well…
In a recent essay on FOXNews.com, former Cincinnati Mayor & deputy undersecretary of HUD, Ken Blackwell, says we often expect politicians to enact constitutionally dubious laws & executive orders, but usually they at least pretend that their actions are legal. However, he says President Biden has dropped any pretenses when…
The U.S. Census Bureau says 2020’s census marked the 24th count of the U.S. population. Indeed….that data is now starting to trickle for all to analyze and today’s interactive infographic is a great place to start. Be sure to click on the graphic below in order to drill down into…
By Patrick Crowley A plan to raise taxes in the City of Cincinnati to generate millions of dollars annually for affordable housing has been proposed at City Hall. But the plan already appears to be in trouble. Cincinnati councilmember Chris Seelbach wants to increase the city’s earnings tax by .01…
By Patrick Crowley Hundreds of millions of dollars in federal rental assistance funds remain untapped. That means that while the funding is going unused, apartment building owners, operators and managers continue to confront the challenge of non-paying residents as the federal eviction moratorium lingers amid court challenges. But help is…
The CDC has a powerful interactive COVID-19 map that provides an integrated county-level view of Covid-19 infections. The CDC says it allows for the exploration of standardized data across the country and it allows for the exploration of standardized data across the country. https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#county-view
The National Multifamily Housing Council (NMHC) says that 72% of apartment households made a full or partial rent payment by September 6th, 2021. This figure is 4.4% lower than those who paid rent through September 6, 2020. The data comes from the NMHC’s Rent Payment Tracker which uses data from…
As the federal eviction moratorium draws down, state lawmakers are proposing exit strategies for their own moratoria that blend date certainty with targeted renter protections for those still at risk for eviction. On June 29, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz signed a new law aimed at replacing the Governor’s eviction moratorium…
