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2/26/2021 12:51:00 PM This is an excellent article by Emily Badger and Quoctrung Bui in the NY Times: Where Have All the Houses Gone?  The authors discuss many of the issues we've discussed on why housing inventory is so low (pandemic, people renting homes, baby boomers aging in place, etc). A brief excerpt on the conversion of single family homes to rental properties: “Right now it’s a screaming good deal to have two properties: When my mortgage rate is 2.7 percent, why not have two of them?” said Michael Simonsen, the C.E.O. of Altos Research. “It took a long time, I think, to re...

Much of the housing market has gone missing. On suburban streets and in many urban neighborhoods, across large and midsize metro areas, many homes that would have typically come up for sale over the past year never did. Even in cities with a pandemic glut of empty apartments and falling rents, it has become incredibly hard to buy a home. Today, if you’re looking for one, you’re likely to see only about half as many homes for sale as were available last winter, according to data from Altos Research, a firm that tracks the market nationwide. That’s a record-shattering decline in inventory...

Q: What’s the story behind that strange Scooby A: Turns out there’s a bunch of old TV vehicles making the rounds, from Knight Rider’s KITT to Herbie the Love Bug, most of them created by avid superfans. Warner Bros. still owns a Scooby Doo van it occasionally rolls out for charity appearances, but the one you’re seeing is probably a lime-and-aqua replica created by Edmundo Alarcon, a former Disney tour guide from La Puente who retrofitted his 1981 Volkswagen in tribute to his favorite show. Notwithstanding occasional engine trouble, he now rents the van to an array of fellow Scooby ...

Trash hauling lobbyist With a tumultuous election year drawing to a close, the revolving doors at San Diego City Hall have gone into overtime as old staffers depart for greener lobbying fields, and new ones arrive fresh from playing the influence-peddling game. Michael Simonsen, the freshly minted chief of staff for newly elected Seventh District Democrat Raul Campillo, hails from trash hauler Republic Services, where he’s spent the last four and a half years as Municipal Relationship Manager, per his LinkedIn profile. “Pragmatic public affairs, marketing and business development profes...

mountains, but we don't expect any around baltimore. we will check the seven-day forecast coming up in just a few minutes. first we say good morning to sarah. >> major roads continue to run smoothly at this hour. we have been tracking a problem at greenspring valley road over towards greenspring road. all lanes are closed because of a fatal accident. a vehicle into a tree. warren road at york road, closures are in effect because of downed wires leftover from yesterday. on southbound 95, 51 miles per hour down towards the beltway. 11 minutes on the outer loop west side. seven minutes ...