Addressing the nationwide housing crisis

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What’s Working: Why rents in Denver and other parts of Colorado are dropping

So many new apartments hit the metro Denver market last year. Too many? Plus: Not every place has seen rents drop
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The main reason is that 20,000 new apartments flooded the Denver market last year, said Cary Bruteig, a researcher with Apartment Insights who worked on the report for the association.

“That is a huge number … a 5% increase in a single year,” Bruteig said. “What that’s done is vacancies have moved up from 5.8% a year ago to 7% today. … And what happens when vacancy rates get over six is apartment communities start becoming much less aggressive in raising rents. In fact, they will often start flattening rents and offering concessions.”
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Builders have bad news for Donald Trump's housing market

The NAHB/Wells Fargo Housing Market Index (HMI) dropped six points to 34, mirroring the November 2023 reading.
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Builder confidence in the U.S. housing market fell sharply in May, marking its lowest level since November 2023, according to a new report from the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB). Developers are contending with a sluggish selling season and mounting economic pressures.
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Per the NAHB, persistent uncertainty around tariffs, rising building material costs, and sustained high interest rates have rattled builder sentiment. These headwinds have forced builders to slash prices during the peak homebuying season.
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Baltimore held a single stair design competition. The winners can be viewed below, pretty cool.

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Stephen Jacob Smith (@stephenjacobsmith.com)

Winners of CNU Mid-Atlantic’s single-stair competition in Baltimore have been announced, and you can find them here, including the very CNU first place winner, with two chained point access blocks, by Daniel Morales of Morales Architects https://www.cnudc.org/single-stair-competition
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Single Stair Competition | cnu-dc-chapter

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Why Texas Republicans are trying to rein in high home prices and rents

There’s political urgency for Republicans to deal with housing affordability, especially as surveys find most Texans say housing costs are a top concern.
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Skimming some articles online and found this. Looks like there's a lot of housing legislation in the works in Texas. I saw there's a bill that cleared the senate legalizing single stairway buildings, also a bill headed to the governor's desk rezoning commerical to residential in major cities.

But more than 60% of Texas voters surveyed by YouGov and Texans for Housing said preserving local control isn’t as important as allowing property owners to build more kinds of homes “to meet the needs of their community.”
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If only our politics were more like this 😭
 
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