House-as-a-Service? The Unbearable Silliness of the 50-Year Mortgage
Not a day goes by in 2025 without some egregious display of incompetence, overtly contemptuous behavior, or general foolishness from
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Ten Scary Things This Halloween
A spoiler alert: none of these things have anything to do with inflatable skeletons, horror movies, or my anxiety about end-of-semester grading.
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When Is A Building A High-Rise?
No, this is not a silly riddle with a dad joke punchline, it’s a genuine question– and one that comes
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Fond Memories From DC, An American War Zone
I had a great time living in DC. It was hardly a war zone, no matter what the president of the United States says.
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Dan Gilbert Juggles Tenants, And Taxpayers Are On The Hook.
The University of Michigan says that the Hudson’s Site in Detroit will pay off the cost of the public subsidies, which amount to the better part of a billion dollars– by 2052. Is it worth it?
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Is The Nation’s Capital, In Fact, A Crime-Infested Hellhole?
In spatial terms, DC is a peculiar phenomenon.
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The I-375 Removal Project Is Dead. So, Too, Is Irony.
Jason Garza, Deputy Region Engineer with the Michigan Department of Transportation, announced yesterday that the next meeting about the I-375
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Mike Duggan’s Value Destruction Saga Continues
Today, the city of Detroit began demolition of the former Federal Department Store, a.k.a. the Mammoth Department Store, at the
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What Early GDP Numbers Are Saying
An unprecedented collapse in international imports in the second quarter meant that US consumers were … well, still spending plenty of money importing things from foreign countries!
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Affordable Housing Crisis: Why Accessory Dwelling Units (ADUs)?
The ADU is everything good about tiny house, without the contextual vacuum. Is it enough to solve the housing crisis? Perhaps not, but it’s a significant enough tool in the toolkit that everyone should think about it.
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