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Understanding Carriage (Seth Godin)

FTC Sends Warning Letters to 13 Property Management Software Providers Nationwide (FTC)

In L.A., $750 a Month to Live in a Backyard Storage Unit (New York Times)

CoStar: multifamily property prices higher in October (YieldPro)

Kids Rarely Read Whole Books Anymore. Even in English Class. (New York Times)

Buc-ee’s, Koury projects in Mebane brought into dispute between Alamance County neighbors (Triad Business Journal)

HHHunt to start work on $43M luxury apartments near Greensboro Topgolf (Triad Business Journal)

NC’s ‘build-to-rent’ housing boom expands to Wendell. What’s coming next? (News & Observer)

We Stopped Saving for a House (Family Money)

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“I’ve become invisible at 67.
Waitstaff look through me. Colleagues talk over me. Shop assistants forget I exist.
At first it stung. Then I discovered its strange power. I notice everything. I speak rarely. When I finally do, the surprise ensures everyone listens.
Aging isn’t decline. It’s stealth mode.” – The Old Grey Thinker

“If you have two guys on a stage and one guy says, ‘I have a solution to the Middle East problem,’ and the other guy falls in the orchestra pit, who do you think is going to be on the evening news?” – Roger Ailes quoted in Letters from an American

“Overcoming poverty is not a task of charity. It is an act of justice.” Nelson Mandela

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Fifty Years After History’s Most Brutal Boxing Match (The Atlantic)

How Paul Newby Made North Carolina a Blueprint for Conservative Courts (ProPublica)

Taking Senior Housing to a New Level (Triangle Business Journal)

I Protest His Protest Song, or Why Jesse Welles Is Bad—And Bad for Us (Out + Back)

How Originalism Killed the Constitution (The Atlantic)

Rising Age of First-Time Homebuyers Drives Multifamily Demand (GlobeSt.)

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“Power usually whispers because it can..” – Alexis Coe, Study Marry Kill

“If you want to change what people believe, change how they act.” – Seth Godin

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Winston-Salem, Forsyth County eye partnership to add 25,000 housing units by 2045 amid regional shortage (Triad Business Journal)

Aging Out of Fu**s: The Neuroscience of Why You Suddenly Can’t Pretend Anymore (Life Branches)

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“Notoriety is better than quality.” – Mike Schur, Pablo Torre Finds Out

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Greensboro set to consider restricting housing commission powers (WFDD)

Multifamily construction spending shows positive signs in August (YieldPro)

Immigration arrests empty shops and stall construction (The Charlotte Ledger)

DOJ reaches settlement with major apartment landlords over algorithmic pricing (WCSC)

Apartments ignite density debate in small North Carolina town (Triangle Business Journal)

How North Carolina won 3,000 jobs in 48 hours (Triad Business Journal)

4 factors impacting the affordable housing outlook (Multifamily Dive)

Audit says NC agency mismanagement left families waiting years after hurricanes (News & Observer)

Historic Mill’s New Life as Affordable Housing Boosts Downtown Rebirth (HUD Policy Development & Research)

America’s Housing Crisis, in One Chart (New York Times)

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“Lower-income households are under stress, there’s no question about that,” Adler said. “Lower-income Americans are definitely feeling the pinch in rent, and it is showing up in collections issues in many places.” – Jeff Adler, VP of Yardi Matrix, Multifamily Dive

“One reason we don’t build enough affordable housing is we’ve made affordable housing unaffordable to build.” – Ezra Klein, New York Times

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Winston-Salem nonprofit opens $17 million housing complex with goal of improving neighborhood (Triad Business Journal)

Long-running ‘Carolina Business Review’ to go off the air on PBS at the end of December; will figure out new direction (The Charlotte Ledger)

Marshall Aerospace delays opening, hiring ramp-up at PTI amid contract timing shifts (Triad Business Journal)

Toyota shows off $14 billion battery plant in Randolph County, pledges more to come (Triad Business Journal)

Rents continue to slip in October (Multifamily Dive)

Pour one out for Charlotte Magazine (The North Carolina Rabbit Hole)

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“The treasury is not getting rid of pennies—they’re not making more, but you can spend the ones you’ve got. There are 300 billion in circulation, although “in circulation” is not quite the right phrase, because roughly 299 billion are stashed away in old coffee cans or ashtrays.” – Tommy Tomlinson, The Writing Shed

“It allows me to trick myself and escape, for a moment, back to a time when things were no less complicated or hard but sure felt like they were.” – Jeremy Markovich, The North Carolina Rabbit Hole

“When I lost him, someone told me that Hammy had left a part of himself with me, and taken a piece of me with him, and it sure feels that way. I think about that often.” – Melanie D.G. Kaplan in an interview with Tommy Tomlinson, The Writing Shed

“Have kids. It’s the best thing you’ll ever do to ruin your life.” – Scott Galloway, Overtime with Bill Maher

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CRE Leaders Warn of Stalled Deals, Unpaid Rents as Shutdown Drags On (GlobeSt.)

Minor Moves, Big Questions: Reading Class C Delinquency Signals (GlobeSt.)

Multifamily Relief, Office Momentum Mark CRE Reset (GlobeSt.)

Charlotte City Council: Incumbents win, Democrats flip south Charlotte seat to expand dominance to 10-1 over Republicans (Charlotte Ledger)

‘Serious heartburn’: Companies and workers are encountering sharply higher health insurance costs for 2026 (Charlotte Ledger)

3 NC cities make top ten rank for converting hotels to apartments, according to latest study (CBS17.com)

In praise of the golf buddy (Fried Egg Golf)

The Missing Kayaker (The Atlantic)

The Affordability Curse (The Atlantic)

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“Developers and investors rely on federal agencies to process permits, approve loans and execute contracts—all functions that have ground to a halt.” – Erik Sherman, GlobeSt.com

“Character reminds us that our worth is revealed through contribution. That what is worth pursuing is what will live beyond our actions because it is embedded in the fiber of time.
We don’t lose our greatness by serving. We find it there.” – Suzanne Hopson in a LinkedIn post.

“Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn’t.” – Mark Twain

“Taxes are what we pay for a civilized society.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Triad housing market defies national slowdown as Guilford sees while Yadkin County ZIP is hottest area (Triad Business Journal)

State Housing Policy is Having a Moment (The New Urban Order)

The joy of staying up way too late (The Writing Shed)

Homebuyers are backing out of deals at record rates. Here’s why and what it means for the housing market. (Triad Business Journal)

Greensboro, Winston-Salem see drop in renter mobility as housing market stabilizes (Triad Business Journal)

The Right Tool (Our State Magazine)

The Delicious Legacy of Chapel Hill’s Favorite BLT (Garden & Gun)

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“A life is nothing but a sum of its yesterdays.” David Joy, When These Mountains Burn

“What’s left, in this frictionless home-delivered society, that is still worth waiting in line for?” Tommy Tomlinson, The Last call at the Bar-B-Q King, The Writing Shed

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Apartment boom continues in Winston-Salem as planning board approves new multifamily projects (Triad Business Journal)

Build-to-rent trend grows as Texas firm enters Triad market with Cherry Creek purchase (Triad Business Journal)

The Island That Wouldn’t Stay Put (Now I Know)

North Carolina’s shortest airline flight was 16 miles long (North Carolina Rabbit Hole)

Would you try this? Super-strong Sam Adams beer is illegal in 15 states – including NC (USA Today)

How a Small North Carolina College Became a Magnet for Wealthy Students – High Point University (Wall Street Journal)

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Historical context of Columbus Day (Letters from an American, October 12, 2025)

The shutdown effects North Carolinians are worried about most (Down from DC)

Mebane turns down Greensboro builder’s 80-townhome proposal (Triad Business Journal)

As The Pearl opens, where’s the affordable housing? (Charlotte Ledger)

I’m 67 and just realized I’ve been lied to about retirement (The Old Grey Thinker)

Can states, and a little bit of faith, convert church land into affordable housing? (Stateline)

Senate passes bipartisan housing reform bill amid shutdown (MPAmag)

Why Can’t North Carolina’s Governor Veto a Redistricting Bill (NC Rabbit Hole)

Multifamily Projects Finish Faster as Build Times Edge Down (GlobeSt)

The “intoxication thesis”: The evolutionary benefits of getting drunk (BigThink)

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Ranked: Top 40 Jobs at Risk From AI (Visual Capitalist)

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The unusual objections stopping apartment projects (MultiFamily Dive)

How the federal shutdown impacts the multifamily industry (Multifamily Dive)

What states have the most new construction in housing? (WFTV)

10 North Carolina Cities Where You Can Actually Live on Nothing but Social Security (AOL.com)

Is the Democratic Party dominated by progressives or by centrists? (Silver Bulletin)

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Ranked: Top 40 Jobs at Risk From AI (Visual Capitalist)