The dream of owning a home shines bright today. For 70% of Americans, it’s a key symbol of success, as good as having a career. That’s one of many insights revealed in the Wells Fargo 2019 “How America Views Homeownership” […]
By John LaRaia, H.G. Fenton Company, BIA Board Member
L to R: Mark Hartley, Dave Norvell, Mayor Rebecca Jones, Sue Dowd, Jessica Nishiura (event chair), daughter Rai and Brian Woods of National Core.
By Nancy Diamond
A few weeks ago, my former colleague, Bob Cummings, eloquently described the current economic climate in which “residential use for a parcel is often times not the highest and best use for that land.” This […]
In my 27 years of BIA involvement, I have seen the forces working against new home production in San Diego County grow exponentially. We dream of the days of when […]
By Rita Mahoney, ColRich, BIA Board of Directors
When Mayor Kevin Faulconer declared himself to be California’s first YIMBY mayor in his January 2019 State of the City speech, there were a lot of people wondering, “What’s a YIMBY?”
Conceived as a countervailing force to the anti-development […]