What's Happening in Local Land Use | Q2 2026
Tracking three months of notable land use and zoning decisions with Shovels Decisions
Build-to-rent communities and single-family rental development. Thesis Driven examines why purpose-built rental neighborhoods solve the operating problem scattered homes never did, institutional appetite and target returns, amenity and community design, market concentration and expansion into new geographies including Canada and the UK, and the regulatory proposals that would put the sector at risk.
Rising populism threatens to end institutional SFR as we know it. What happens next and who are the likely winners and losers?
A new generation of GPs are bringing US-style multifamily development to new markets, including Canada and the UK.
Covering the future of real estate and the people creating it