Building Tech & Products
RIP Katerra: A Bold Play That Failed To Get A Real-World Footing
A TBD exclusive analysis: here are three why's of Katerra's fail, and three critical take-aways that builders need for their own survival in the future of housing.
Building Tech & Products
Chain Reaction: How Will Builders Respond To Input Pressures?
Back-half margin compression looks likely as homebuilders absorb input cost spikes and hit selling price push-back.
Land
Drive 'Til You Qualify Gets A Work-From-Anywhere Makeover
How powerfully will the blended allure of desirably-priced housing and liberation from a daily commute move people to move, predictably?
Capital
Bubble Rap: It's Not What's Next That Matters Now; It's Who Can And Can't
Who's right about which prediction is exactly the focus area strategists would do well to dispel from their priority agendas right now. Instead of focusing on a bubble, redouble commitment instead to becoming listeners, learners, understanders of what customers feel, think, fear and do.
Policy
Re-Entry Level: Impact Justice, A Bridge From Prison To Home
The Homecoming Project serves as a kind of societal acupuncture, designed to heal raw material social fabric. A 2021 winner of the Ivory Prize for Innovation in Housing Affordability in policy and regulation -- it presses the raw nerve-endings of racism.
