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$ Interactive map exposes NC’s housing flaw — apartments banned almost everywhere (News & Observer)

Major Charlotte developer lays off 15% of its workforce as housing market slows (Charlotte Observer)

Public-Private Partnership Advances a 200-Unit Affordable Housing Community in Raleigh, North Carolina (CityBiz)

North Carolina looks for solutions to housing shortage and affordability (Spectrum News 1 – video)

Making Affordable Housing Affordable to Build (Governing)

Stein signs bill aimed at making it easier to build housing in North Carolina (WCNC)

The Million-Dollar Industry Built Around NC’s Affordable Housing Tax Break (IndyWeek)

The Forgotten Drink That Caffeinated North America for Centuries (Atlas Obscura)

$ Charlotte groups plans build-to-rent townhome community in Bermuda Run (Triad Business Journal)

$ Despite hot summers, Charlotte landlords don’t have to install AC. That may change (Charlotte Observer)

Multifamily starts tumbled in July (Multifamily Dive)

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“Smart refrigerators can track the inventory in your fridge; they can come with cameras that show you what’s in the fridge while you’re shopping; and they can tell you when items such as water filters need replacing. You can also, if you are determined to go analog, do these tasks by an alternate method: OPENING THE DOOR..” – Tommy Tomlinson, The Writing Shed

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North Carolina’s Road to Nowhere (Atlas Obscura)

10 Beautiful European Cities You’ve Probably Never Heard Of (Daily Passport)

$ The Social Security Reckoning Is Finally Coming (The Atlantic)

Map Shows the States Fighting Potential Rent Hikes (Newsweek)

The Poisonous Beauty Advice Columns of Victorian England (Atlas Obscura)

10 Political Crises (American Facts)

Rental vacancies rising in Boone as student housing nears saturation (Watauga Democrat)

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“Even if our leaders settle on a way to keep Social Security solvent, however, they are unlikely to address the deeper problem underlying the budgetary one: A program designed to reduce poverty has morphed into a transfer of wealth to the richest members of our society.” – Marc Novicoff, The Atlantic

“If you are in a state of vigilance, you cannot be playful.” Esther Perel

“Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.” Dwight D. Eisenhower

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$ Mamdani’s Rent Freeze Is Approved by New York City Board (New York Times)

A parking reform bill has the backing of an unusual coalition: environmentalists, housing advocates, and developers (WHQR)

NAIOP rebrands to CREDA as it seeks to expand membership, advocacy (Triad Business Journal)

Build-to-rent housing sector scores a key Capitol Hill victory (Broadband Communities News)

America used to be exceptionally patriotic. Now we’re below average (Silver Bulletin)

$ I TRIED TO BE THE GOVERNMENT. IT DID NOT GO WELL. (The Atlantic)

$ The Purged (The Atlantic)

$ I Went to the Great American State Fair and I May Never Sleep Again (The Atlantic)

$ Triad residential real estate firms sold 22% more homes in 2025 (Triad Business Journal)

Map Shows Cities Where Closing Affordable Housing Gap Will Take Centuries (Newsweek)

The wedding column (Tommy Tomlinson)

$ A $100K salary is no longer the standard it once was. Here’s the new number. (Triad Business Journal)

Stealing a dog is an automatic felony in North Carolina. Stealing a cat is not. Why? (NC Rabbit Hole)

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Is buying a home still the American Dream? Some renters are happier without the hassle (CNBC)

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Funding Available To Rebuild Rental Housing Affected By Helene (WHKY)

Building Code Changes Add Nearly 10% To Apartment Construction Costs (GlobeSt.)

The long game (The Writing Shed)

$ The bylines look real. But these prolific NC reporters aren’t. (News & Observer)

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“Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The point of this is not to brag about my good fortune. It is simply to say that no matter how lonely you are, no matter how much you think you’ve missed your chance, there is hope, always hope, everlasting hope.” – Tommy Tomlinson

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The Archaeologist Who Collected 4,500 Beer Cans (Atlas Obscura)

$ You Might Be a Late Bloomer (The Atlantic)

$ The First Wave at Omaha Beach (The Atlantic, 1960)

Four States that Have Banned Billboards (Daily Passport)

As Gen-X nears retirement, new survey says the numbers aren’t adding up (MSN.com)

With as much as 39% of downtown real estate devoted to surface spaces for cars, advocates say it’s time to junk Asheville’s minimum parking requirements (Asheville Watchdog)

North Carolina’s huge school technology mistake (Longleaf Politics)

$ NC House passes a new bill about property taxes, with more legislation to come (News & Observer)

Rental scams rising across North Carolina (Ashe Post & Times)

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“Effort is the one thing that gives meaning to life. Effort means you care about something.” – Carol Dweck, Stanford Psychologist, quoted in The Atlantic

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High prices are pushing homebuyers to consider drastic steps (Multifamily Dive)

Is the apartment industry ready for an AI job apocalypse? (Multifamily Dive)

State of Mind: Batter Up! (SouthPark Magazine)

Thom Tillis called something “stupid on stilts.” Where the hell did that come from? (NC Rabbit Hole)

Homeowners are suddenly pulling their houses off the market – and this is why (Fast Company)

The National Mall: From memorials to museums (The American Facts)

NASA in your house: 10 inventions that revolutionized everyday life (The Amerian Facts)

A Low-Income Housing Program Is Pouring Billions Into Housing Many People Can’t Afford (ProPublica)

$ Private-equity firms expanding ownership stakes in Triad apartment market (Winston-Salem Journal)

Uprooted: 18 Months After Helene, Thousands in Western North Carolina Are Still Waiting to Come Home (DC Report)

HUD report: North Carolina homelessness up 33%, cites Helene as source of increase (WLOS)

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“Sometimes magic is just someone spending more time on something than anyone else might reasonably expect.” – Teller, quoted in The Writing Shed

“To call Paxton ethically challenged is to call Jeffrey Dahmer suffering from an eating disorder.” – US Senator Thom Tillis

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HUD trims environmental reviews for multifamily projects (Multifamily Dive)

Durham City council approves $4.5 million funding for affordable housing crisis (WRAL)

$ Half of Durham Tech students report housing insecurity. Now watch this site (News & Observer)

Charlotte fund helping thousands of people by preserving affordable housing (Spectrum News)

What an investor sees in Spruce Pine (Longleaf Politics)

Raleigh’s Missing Middle Has a Next Step (StrongTowns.org)

New Study Reveals Bulk Billing Arrangements Save Multi-Family Housing Residents More Than 50% on Broadband (Business Wire)

Unwelcome Guests (Santa Fe New Mexican)

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“You’re not a bad person because of how you voted. And you’re not a good person because of how you voted.” – Pete Buttigieg – @naoandrsn on Threads

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RIP to the summer home-selling season (Business Insider)

Lots of Opportunity: How Communities Can Address the Affordability Crisis on Land They Already Own (Lincoln Institute of Land Policy)

Extinguishing Fraud (National Apartment Association)

$ One of California’s Ritziest Beach Towns Has a Problem: A Tsunami of Raw Sewage (Wall Street Journal)

10 States With the Worst Drivers (Daily Passport)

$ Raleigh leans on public private partnerships to deliver hundreds of affordable homes (News & Observer)

Remodeling Growth to Slow Sharply in Early 2027 (Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies)

Embracing three little words: Not for Me (The Writing Shed)

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“The timing of all this couldn’t have been worse from a housing perspective.” – Rick Palacios Jr.- John Burns Research & Consulting

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$ Triad wastewater expansion could cost $3.1B as Greensboro, High Point face capacity crunch (Triad Business Journal)

North Carolina Zoo stuck in limbo with Asia Continent ready to open, no state budget to hire staff (WSPA)

The new homeowner penalty (Business Insider)

$ Kolter Multifamily launches Carolinas operation, targeting Charlotte and Triangle markets (Charlotte Business Journal)

Prince’s way (The Writing Shed with Tommy Tomlinson)

Greensboro Increases Penalties for Unsafe Housing Conditions (WGHP)

$ Phillips Management, Signature Property Group plan over 700 housing units near PTI airport (Triad Business Journal)

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”Looking into the things that you’re not good at, especially intellectually, is one way to stay young, because you’ve got a beginner’s mind.” – Stewart Brand

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$ This May Be the Most Important Medical Story of the Decade (New York Times)

$ Why this Wake County neighborhood keeps fighting new homes (News & Observer)

Asheville Housing Authority cuts 34 positions amid $9M financial shortfall (WLOS.com)

Hotel-to-housing project nixed, council says low-income residents deserve better (Port City Daily)

Central City Redevelopment Spurs Rental Housing Opportunities (Units Magazine)

“Even” (Seth Godin)

$ Who Gets to Live in a Single-Family Home? (The Atlantic)

A New Model for Achieving Attainability (ProBuilder)

$ I FOUND IT: THE BEST FREE RESTAURANT BREAD IN AMERICA (The Atlantic)

‘I Don’t Know That I’ll Ever Be OK With Myself’ (Politico)

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“My neighbour asked why I still use paper maps.

Because GPS tells you where to go but maps show you where you could go.

One is navigation.

The other is possibility.

At my age, I’ve had enough of being directed. I want to see all the roads I haven’t taken yet, spread out like promises.” – The Old Grey Thinker

“Both read the same Bible and pray to the same God and each invokes His aid against the other. It may seem strange that any men should dare to ask a just God’s assistance in wringing their bread from the sweat of other men’s faces but let us judge not that we be not judged. The prayers of both could not be answered—that of neither has been answered fully. The Almighty has His own purposes.” – Abraham Lincoln, Inauguration Address, March 4, 1865

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$ Greensboro apartment giant Bell Partners bought by Canadian financial firm for $350M (Triad Business Journal)

$ In updating Mebane plans, Buc-ee’s exec says ‘We will have more stores in North Carolina’ (Triad Business Journal)

$ Winston-Salem leads North Carolina in Gen Z homeownership as 26% own homes (Triad Business Journal)

$ Greensboro parking deck demolition to begin as developer preps 171-unit complex (Triad Business Journal)

$ Behind the deal: Bell family to exit Bell Partners after $350M acquisition; HQ to remain in Greensboro (Triad Business Journal)

$ Who paid to help oust NC’s Phil Berger? Voters may never know. Here’s why. (News & Observer)

$ As lawmakers probe Western NC housing recovery, Eastern NC’s still isn’t done (News & Observer)

Developers See Early Signs of Recovery in Multifamily Construction Market (GlobeSt.com)

5 Years of Lessons From Running My Own Bookstore (RyanHoliday.net)

Chasing quiet (MattCrossman)

Your 12 Good Years (Humans vs Retirement)

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“Are you optimizing for attention or for service?” – Scott Galloway, Pivot Podcast

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