- Report: Houston Rents Up 1.2% Over the Past Month [Apartment List]
- About the Same Number of Houston Apartments Were Rented in the Month After Harvey as They Are in a Typical Year [Houston Chronicle]
- Gov. Abbott’s $61B Harvey Package Includes New Houston Reservoirs, Buyouts of Thousands of Properties [Houston Chronicle ($)]
- City Council Scheduled To Vote Today To Allow Hundreds of Homes To Be Built in Spring Branch Floodplain [Houston Chronicle ($); previously on Swamplot]
- Flood Recovery Czar Marvin Odum’s Rebuild Pitch Asks for 10M Volunteer Cleanup Hours [abc13]
- Housing Choice Vouchers for Flooded-Out Residents of Forest Green Townhomes Came from Oklahoma City Housing Authority [Houston Housing Authority; previously on Swamplot]
- Moody National Cos. Starts Construction on a Residence Inn by Marriott Near NRG Stadium [Houston Chronicle]
- Rolled Ice Cream Shop Chills 360 Will Squeeze Between Velvet Taco and East Hampton Sandwich Co. in Ruggles Grill Replacement Building on Westheimer at Montrose [Bisnow]
- Mayor Turner Testifies in Defense of City Ban on Temporary Structures [Houston Chronicle]
- How Philadelphia Used Tax Policy To Replace Off-Street Parking Spaces with Housing [Streetsblog USA]
- Charges Against Manafort Highlight Use of Airbnb for Real Estate Scams [Bloomberg]
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Nice blog about parking in Philadelphia.
Hmmm, so Philadelphia reduced the number of off-street parking spaces by 7%, but occupancy rates actually DECLINED by 2%. It’s almost as if replacing car storage with actual places for people to go allows people to walk more.