Over the past decade, branded residential condominium projects have expanded beyond the traditional mixed-use hotel model. Increasingly, hospitality brands are licensing their names, standards and service platforms for use in standalone residential condominium developments that do not include a hotel…
Introduction On June 23, 2026, the U.S. Congress passed an amended version of H.R. 6644, The 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act (the Act). The final Act still needs to receive a signature from the President before passage; however, if…
A recent article in the Wall Street Journal (“Home Builders Are Getting Buried in Claims of Shoddy Construction”) highlighted the growing wave of construction defect litigation facing homebuilders and developers across the country. Rising insurance costs, increasingly aggressive litigation strategies,…
Introduction Over the past several years, institutional ownership of single-family rental housing has become an increasingly significant political and regulatory issue at both the federal and state levels. The narrative has rapidly evolved into a developing policy landscape with potentially…
In Part 1 of this series, I discussed why Texas is only partway toward a solution to the condominium supply problem, focusing on the need for continued statutory reform, including modernization of condominium development financing and greater flexibility in how…
In my prior post on the condominium supply problem, I focused on a central issue: the market is not failing to produce housing generally, it is failing to produce attainable housing at scale. Condominiums should be a key part of…
A recent article in The Atlantic titled “The Great American Condo Crisis” argues that the United States is simply not building enough condominiums and has never recovered after the 2008 Great Recession. That observation is correct for the overall national…
The American housing market is once again at a crossroads. Affordability challenges, limited supply, fluctuating interest rates, and rising investor activity dominate headlines and fuel lively policy debates. On January 20, 2026, President Trump added a new layer to this…
In May, the Colorado General Assembly enacted H.B. 25-1272—the American Dream Act—to address one of the state’s most persistent housing challenges: the shortage of attainable, for-sale condominiums. For more than a decade, Colorado’s for-sale multifamily market has struggled under the…
Most of us think of “architecture” as building design—the creative and technical work that shapes the spaces we inhabit. But community governance has an architecture too. Just as a building’s structure determines how people move through and use it, a…
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