Architecture
How Missing Middle Housing Wins Approval And Works
Architect and planner Dan Parolek coined the term “missing middle housing.” His firm’s projects prove that thoughtful design, political navigation, and local momentum can overcome entrenched zoning resistance.
Architecture
Trailblazers '23: Pearl Homes Aims At Housing's Three-Headed Hydra
Marshall Gobuty's Pearl Homes game plan is to ramp up an enterprise scale capability platform – using the net zero, LEED, solar-battery-powered blend as a scaleable ingredient brand -- for housing as a solution.
Marketing & Sales
Demographics Data Reveal 2030s Tipping Point For U.S. Housing
Brookings Institution senior fellow William Frey's recent analysis of a 2nd release of data points from the Census Bureau's 2020 decennial census has three highlights market-rate residential real estate and construction strategists will appreciate are right in their wheelhouse.
Architecture
Teaming Up In A Quest To Ignite Homebuilding Data's Real Power
GAF parent Standard Industries, Home Depot Ventures, and Carl Bass invest to put Higharc's generative design solution for homebuilding partners on a digital transformation fast-track.
Architecture
Why Spec Homes' Success May Light A Path To Housing's Future
Dire constraints come with benefits. They may actually ignite profitably-produced affordable, sustainable, and resilient housing. Simpler and more standardized.
Architecture
Value Engineering Is Only Partly About Design And Price ... It's A Strategy
Tactics and tailwinds – necessary and successful as they've been in stemming what could have been a rout from the start of 2023 – amount to this: They've bought builders time.
