Raleigh is experiencing a housing crisis. Rising apartment costs are currently outpacing inflation in the city, meaning that families are going to find it more and more difficult to afford housing.…
Brittany De Lea writes for FoxNews.com about bad news for San Francisco. San Francisco experienced a 43% year-over-year decline in sales tax revenues during the pandemic, which has been credited…
Joseph Lawler of the Washington Examiner documents bad news for those struggling to pay the rent. More Americans are struggling to pay for housing, even as the economy improves and…
There’s interesting news about the cost of renting in Charlotte and Raleigh today. In it’s National Rent Report for March, Zumper reports that, of the 50 largest cities in America,…
The Associated Press has an interesting article out on millennials and to what degree they are buying houses. They want too, especially after they have kids, but finding the money…
Taxes are going up in the City of Asheville to punish the evil legislators for denying the city its business licensing fees. The logic is it is indeed better for…
We’re informed that the minimum housing code for Black Mountain is going to provide better protection for renters. I think that means higher rents to cover the landlords’ cost of…
The Charlotte Observer offers up a fascinating look into how apartment rents are increasing set much like the airlines price set airfares. Some highlights: A decade ago, apartment complexes would…
Yesterday, I was chauffeuring somebody who was looking for a president to save the economy. A human sponge myself, I’m waiting around for somebody to invent an app that will…
Not to mention any statistics, such as the one that says, correcting for inflation, housing prices are lower than they were during the Grover Cleveland administration, there is a perception…
Hey, what do you know, another Meck Deck prediction coming true. Doug Smith reports that rents have dropped almost 40 percent at the high end and 15 to 20 percent…
The musical “Rent” comes to the Durham Center for the Performing Arts beginning Monday. It’s ironic that a musical written to protest New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani’s efforts to clean…