Richard Lawson

Richard Lawson

Journalist/writer/storyteller

Richard Lawson is an award-winning journalist on housing and adaptive reuse.

Florida Paradox: In-Migration Vs. Growing Signs Of An Exodus

Land

Florida Paradox: In-Migration Vs. Growing Signs Of An Exodus

Even as domestic migration cools, international migration is driving demand, and with it, there is pressure on land prices, baseline costs, and housing attainability.

How Climate-Forward Rules Trip Up California Affordability Push

Policy

How Climate-Forward Rules Trip Up California Affordability Push

California has struggled with housing shortages and affordability. Pursuing climate policies focused on infill development only could be making the struggle worse.

Regulation Recoil: Developers Avoid Gateway Cities ... Here's Why

Policy

Regulation Recoil: Developers Avoid Gateway Cities ... Here's Why

Multifamily rental developers focus on investments in the Sun Belt and secondary metropolitan areas, which have tended to outpace others in economic growth, especially in the past several years of the post-pandemic era.

States Raise Stakes In Bid To Rid Vacant Properties Of Squatters

Policy

States Raise Stakes In Bid To Rid Vacant Properties Of Squatters

Data on squatting is scant. The National Rental Housing Council surveyed members and released the results. Atlanta topped the country with an estimated 1,200 homes taken over by squatters, while Dallas-Fort Worth had 475 homes.

Rent Protections Choke Supply, Drive Rents Higher, Data Says

Policy

Rent Protections Choke Supply, Drive Rents Higher, Data Says

Has a century-high monument to sweeping American renter protections — many of them designed to battle greed, corruption and their byproduct inhumane living conditions common among rental properties of the past — become one of the cudgels to obliterate 21st-century solutions?

Florida Paradox: In-Migration Vs. Growing Signs Of An Exodus

Land

Florida Paradox: In-Migration Vs. Growing Signs Of An Exodus

Even as domestic migration cools, international migration is driving demand, and with it, there is pressure on land prices, baseline costs, and housing attainability.

How Climate-Forward Rules Trip Up California Affordability Push

Policy

How Climate-Forward Rules Trip Up California Affordability Push

California has struggled with housing shortages and affordability. Pursuing climate policies focused on infill development only could be making the struggle worse.

Regulation Recoil: Developers Avoid Gateway Cities ... Here's Why

Policy

Regulation Recoil: Developers Avoid Gateway Cities ... Here's Why

Multifamily rental developers focus on investments in the Sun Belt and secondary metropolitan areas, which have tended to outpace others in economic growth, especially in the past several years of the post-pandemic era.

States Raise Stakes In Bid To Rid Vacant Properties Of Squatters

Policy

States Raise Stakes In Bid To Rid Vacant Properties Of Squatters

Data on squatting is scant. The National Rental Housing Council surveyed members and released the results. Atlanta topped the country with an estimated 1,200 homes taken over by squatters, while Dallas-Fort Worth had 475 homes.

Rent Protections Choke Supply, Drive Rents Higher, Data Says

Policy

Rent Protections Choke Supply, Drive Rents Higher, Data Says

Has a century-high monument to sweeping American renter protections — many of them designed to battle greed, corruption and their byproduct inhumane living conditions common among rental properties of the past — become one of the cudgels to obliterate 21st-century solutions?