Monthly Archives: May 2026

Read/Listen/Watch List for Weeks of May 2 and May 9, 2026

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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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Quotes

“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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Read/Listen/Watch List for the Weeks of April 18 & 25, 2026

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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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Quotes

”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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