Affordable housing is in short supply in many US cities, perhaps nowhere more chronically than in New York City. Â Even though New York has more public housing than any other US city, the demand for
Destined to disappoint: housing lotteries Read Post »
Yesterday was, famously, cyber-Monday, the day in which the nation’s consumers took to their web-browsers and started clicking for holiday shopping in earnest. Tech Crunch reports that estimated e-commerce sales will yesterday were predicted at
Does Cyber-Monday mean delivery gridlock Tuesday? Read Post »
As housing affordability becomes an increasingly challenging and widespread problem in many US cities, there are growing calls for the imposition of rent control. Â While there’s broad agreement among economists that rent control is ineffective
Does rent control work? Evidence from Berlin Read Post »
What City Observatory did this week 1. Â The rise of global neighborhoods. Â A new paper published in Demography by Wenquan Zhang and John Logan traces out the changes in the racial and ethnic composition of
The Week Observed, November 25, 2016 Read Post »
At City Observatory, we’ve long maintained that the location patterns of talented young workers are an economically important signal. Â (You can read our report on “The Young and Restless here). Â Well-educated young adults are the
More evidence on the migration of talent Read Post »
There’s a lot of ink being spilled — or is it pixels rearranged? — over the size, shape, merits and even existence of a Trump Administration infrastructure plan. Infrastructure was one of just a handful
Your guide to the debate over the Trump Infrastructure Plan Read Post »
