What's Happening in Local Land Use | Q2 2026
Tracking three months of notable land use and zoning decisions with Shovels Decisions
Written interviews and Q&As from Thesis Driven with the people building, funding and governing real estate. Conversations cover how operators found a niche and what they got wrong, how sponsors get underwritten when the market turns, why founders picked the model they did, and how housing policy actually gets made, at enough length for the reasoning to show rather than just the conclusion.
Over the past six years, Choppin has built over 500 units of multigenerational housing, an overlooked - and lucrative - typology
Early stage $10-30mm PropCo checks are scarce, but the market is here and growing. A Q&A with Sandor Valner of PTB.
Armed with a $450M PropCo, coliving operator Cohabs is buying and building across the US and Europe
Digging in with Aleksey from Centrio Capital Partners on the state of the market, multifamily distress, advice for real estate LPs, and more
Covering the future of real estate and the people creating it