Rice University’s Kinder Institute for Urban Research found in its 2026 State of Housing report that more than half of Harris County renters are cost-burdened, homeowner insurance costs in the county rose 17 percent, and 28 percent of housing units now sit within a FEMA-designated floodplain — a set of numbers that sits uneasily against…
Harvard University’s Joint Center for Housing Studies reported in America’s Rental Housing 2026 that a record 22.7 million renter households — nearly half of all U.S. renters — were cost-burdened in 2024, even as asking rents for professionally managed apartments fell slightly and vacancy rates ticked up. The market is cooling. The household is not stabilizing at…
Zuckerberg’s admission doesn’t undo the layoffs it was supposed to justify Katie Paul of Reuters reported that Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg told employees at an internal town hall that AI agent development over the last four months “hasn’t really accelerated in the way that we expected,” an admission that lands inside a company that spent…
Broadcasters, the FCC, and nearly 9,000 public comments are now treating sports fragmentation as a policy problem — not just a consumer annoyance. Watching a single team’s full season now requires navigating up to ten different platforms — and the cost of doing so has become significant enough that federal regulators are formally reviewing it….
A decade of corporate relocations, population growth, and rising median incomes has not closed Charlotte’s Black-white homeownership gap. The gap is a product of the same growth, not a separate problem from it. Charlotte added more residents in the last five years than any other large city in the American South. The U.S. Census Bureau’s…
Twenty years of post-disaster economic recovery data tells a specific story about where recovery investment went and who it served. The geography of investment followed the geography of pre-existing wealth. In August 2005, Hurricane Katrina flooded 80% of New Orleans. The worst flooding hit the lowest-lying neighborhoods — areas that had been assigned to lower…
France’s 2026 Finance Act removed access to APL housing subsidies for non-EU students who don’t hold officially recognized scholarships. For students from Africa, the Maghreb, and Asia who self-fund, it’s a $3,700 annual cost increase with no transition support. On July 1, 2026, France’s 2026 Finance Act took effect with a provision that did not…
Luxury home sales rose 22 percent in a single month. Non-luxury sales rose less than 4 percent. When one industry concentrates enough wealth in one city, the housing market stops working as a price discovery mechanism. San Francisco’s housing market is not one market. Redfin data reported by Fortune in May 2026 shows luxury home…
Japan’s shunto wage negotiations are producing historic results. The workers whose wages are rising most are the ones inside the formal, unionized system. The ones outside it are somewhere else entirely. Japan’s spring wage negotiations — the shunto process, through which major employers and unions set compensation benchmarks for the year — are projected to…
Price corrections return a market to a lower level, not to the population that was displaced when prices were rising. Those are not the same thing. Miami’s housing market is cooling. Median prices in the metro have declined from their 2022 pandemic-era peaks as out-of-state buyer demand softens and inventory increases, according to Redfin and…