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Urbanexus Update - Issue #10

Please scroll down for my weekly collection of information and opinion about changes across, and beyo
Urbanexus Update - Issue #10
By H. Pike Oliver • Issue #10 • View online
Please scroll down for my weekly collection of information and opinion about changes across, and beyond, metropolitan regions that create opportunities—and challenges—for sustainable real estate investment and community development.

Housing in the USA
There is substantial variation in rental rates for higher-end apartments around the USA.
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Average monthly rent for a "luxury" apartment
Average monthly rent for a "luxury" apartment
A slow-walk into a housing shortage
A slow-walk into a housing shortage
Part 1 in a two-part series about Seattle’s zoning history and its impact on the city’s housing shortage today.
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Build all kinds of housing almost everywhere.
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Bay Area developer Danny Haber’s projects in West Oakland.
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Zillow ranks the hottest US housing markets. 
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Markets in the USA that are attracting Millennials.
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Award winning mixed-income housing
Award winning mixed-income housing
Downtown Denver is booming, and Ashley Union Station provides a fully integrated home for families from multiple income levels.
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Tracking for-sale housing inventory
Tracking for-sale housing inventory
Watching inventory helps to understand the housing market.
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AD&C Loan Growth
AD&C Loan Growth
Tight availability of acquisition, development, and construction (AD&C) loans has been a limiting factor for home building growth, but easing credit conditions and a growing loan base have helped expand residential construction activity in a thin inventory environment.
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151 Years of America’s housing history
151 Years of America’s housing history
A “progressive” perspective on how housing policy, programs, and regulation have evolved since New York City enacted the first tenement-law regulation in 1867.
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Housing the unhoused
Health officials say there’s a way to begin dealing with the health effects of unsheltered homelessness: Have shelter available by next winter.
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A Seattle church and a real estate developer step up to provide “high-barrier” (no drugs and alcohol) housing for the unhoused.
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No link between homeless villages and crime rates, Guardian review suggests, but experts view them as a less than ideal solution.
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Comments from Barbara Poppe and Eric Tars
Comments from Barbara Poppe and Eric Tars
Metropolitan areas in the USA
Living costs
Living costs
The most and least expensive places to live in the USA 
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Since 2010,  the City of Seattle has had the highest rate of core city (not overall metro area) growth in the USA.
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Pervasive suburbanization
Pervasive suburbanization
The 2017 data on core city and suburban growth in the USA.
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Around the world
Public policy and real estate markets
Public policy and real estate markets
A low income housing plan and growth policy result in positive signs for real estate investment in Kenya.
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Environment
Construction and waste
Construction and waste
High rates of construction in places like Seattle create a waste management challenge.
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So why are greenhouse emissions creeping up? “Curtailment” is the answer.
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Architecture and urban design
Learning from Tom Wolfe
Learning from Tom Wolfe
Some architects and urban designers may still be traumatized by Tom Wolfe’s criticism of modernism but he made some points that some took to heart.
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H. Pike Oliver

I strive to understand what creates opportunities—and challenges—for real estate investment and sustainable community development. Learn more about me at http://www.urbanexus.com/about-h-pike-oliver/.

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