Deep Dive: Real Property Captive
As real estate's insurance-cost crisis grows, captives gain popularity and embrace membership-club selectivity
Affordable Housing
Affordable housing development and finance. Thesis Driven dives into LIHTC and Section 8 mechanics, workforce and naturally affordable housing, affordable-by-design formats and modular delivery, inclusionary zoning and its tradeoffs, community land trusts, ESG and mission capital, vertically integrated affordable developers, and why terminology confusion between affordability and subsidized housing distorts policy.
20 articles
When Housing Disappears Because It’s Too Cheap
In struggling urban markets, the path to preserving affordable apartments may begin with creating more expensive ones
To Mod or Not to Mod?
The U.S. modular construction industry has struggled for decades without a large-scale institutional buyer. The Department of Defense may be changing that.
What's Happening in Local Land Use | Q1 2026
Tracking the past three months of notable land use and zoning decisions with Shovels Decisions
Deep Dive: Angeleno & Affordable Housing Development in Los Angeles
How Angeleno is structuring deals and executing projects in a market where affordable housing is notoriously difficult to build
What’s Happening in Local Land Use | Q1 2026
Tracking the past three months of notable land use and zoning decisions
What’s Happening in Local Land Use | Q4 2025
Tracking the past three months of notable land use and zoning decisions
The Most Important Housing Bill You've Never Heard Of
Why Oregon's HB 2258 could be a model for solving the housing crisis
The YIMBY Army Marches
Developers faced with difficult entitlements are increasingly turning to a new ally: housing advocates
Where Healthcare Meets Housing
A new generation of operators are boosting returns by marrying Medicaid and real estate
What's Happening in Local Land Use | Q2 2025
Tracking the past three months of notable local land use and zoning decisions