Why Does Hollywood Hate Real Estate Developers?
The typecasting of builders as villains might help explain why NIMBYs so often win the policy battles over urban growth and development.
The typecasting of builders as villains might help explain why NIMBYs so often win the policy battles over urban growth and development.
Perhaps WeWork will eventually succeed in going public and in reaching profitability. Even if it doesn't, it will have paved the way for dozens of similar companies operating with variations on its co-working model
It's by building lots more housing, obviously.
Plus: New York may ban 3D-printed guns and most Americans support Roe v. Wade.
The Manhattan Institute's Howard Husock debates Economic Policy Institute's Richard Rothstein at the Soho Forum.
NYC's mayor takes on private property (again).
Best known as the "father of Harlem," he was guided by the theory that free markets penalize bigotry.
It's the worst sort of social engineering and special-interest payoff via the tax code.
Suggestions from a New York real estate attorney
Protectionism is a losing proposition, especially after a disaster.
De Blasio literally wants to tell people what to do with their land.
Politicians and developers stole a neighborhood to build it, but it loses money and revitalized nothing.
Thanks in part to improved security situation
Bold move to put the city itself underwater
Qualifying loans could be sold to investors
Way to shoot your economy in the foot
Home purchases are traditionally made in American currency
Buying and selling property was legalized in 2011
Understanding a puzzling aspect of the financial crisis and its aftermath.
That's a government that knows how to shoot itself in the foot
The people who are supposed to be helped have found assistance through normal, non-crazy means
Feds pushed a "no down payment" policy that increased risk
Probably because they'd have to admit the government screwed up
Restrictions artificially fueled soaring home values, tax revenue
Banks pushed the limits of safety to satisfy the law
Borrowers were upset over foreclosures. Well, they always are, aren't they?
If you're looking for a bargain and have a strong stomach ...
There actually are a few things in which the Big Apple mayor doesn't want the government to meddle
It's just as well. How California is spending its portion of the money is slightly better than what Harris wanted.
It's left out of the platform to give a hypothetical President Romney room to maneuver