Venture Development Consulting Group
Land Use, Urban Residential and Mixed-use Development Consultants
Experts in housing discuss prospects for this year, the preferences of millennial buyers, the importance of providing communities with a strong sense of place, strategies for making homes more affordable, and other trends.
Source: ULI Member Outlook for Residential Communities and Neighborhoods – Urban Land Magazine
Developers of master-planned communities (MPCs) must prepare for the next generation of buyers who will be more sophisticated and more discerning because they will come from urban environments, attendees were told at the 2017 ULI Spring Meeting.
Source: Millennial’s Desires Changing Design of Modern MPCs – Urban Land Magazine
Large, luxury apartment and condo developments have been dominating headlines and casting a big shadow over the “little guys” in rental housing. A new report released by Enterprise Community Partners and the Bedrosian Center on Governance at the University of Southern California aims to call attention to this overlooked segment of the market.
Source: Why Aren’t More Small Apartment Projects Built? – Urban Land Magazine
Why do cities with the fastest-growing economies—including Seattle, San Francisco, New York City, and Austin–suffer from a growing imbalance between job growth and housing supply?
A panel at the ULI Spring Meeting in Seattle examined why hot-market cities are failing to build enough housing for new workers, often by staggering ratios. The result is skyrocketing rents and housing prices that exacerbate regional inequality, feel unaffordable even to highly paid new workers, and strain transportation networks as the workforce moves farther out in search of affordable housing.
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