Rental housing economist Jay Parsons discusses myth-busting research around rental affordability, covers recent headlines on apartments and single-family rentals, and offers up rental housing trivia and Q&A. He's joined later by Dan Oberste, CEO at BSR REIT, to dive discuss myths versus realities of being public traded, operating in the Sun Belt, serving market-rate renters and forecasting the multifamily outlook. ================== 0:00 - Intro 1:17 - Research around affordability 3:53 - Rental housing trivia 4:31 - In the news 7:27 - Good question 8:52 - Complaints department 10:16 - Rental housing trivia answer 11:28 - Dan Oberste introduction 12:10 - Good/bad of publicly traded REITs 14:56 - Myths around valuations 24:45 - Myths around renters 36:04 - Myths around the Sun Belt 40:50 - Supply/demand: when will rents rebound? 46:58 - Outro
Rental housing economist Jay Parsons discusses the case for middle-income housing investments, covers recent headlines on apartments and single-family rentals, and offers up rental housing trivia and Q&A. He's joined later by Bob Simpson, head of the Multifamily Impact Council, to dive into the investment and policy case for affordable and attainable housing ... as well as a creative potential solution to boost construction. ================== 0:00 - Introduction 2:12 - Can investors afford to ignore affordability? 7:44 - TX Missing middle 10:29 - Rental housing trivia 11:03 - In the news 20:00 - Good question 21:28 - Complaints department 24:50 - Rental housing trivia 25:39 - Bob Simpson introduction 26:05 - The passion for “impact” in multifamily housing 27:57 - Defining affordability 20:38 - Solution to affordability 36:50 - Missing middle solution 39:08 - Impact on investors 42:50 - Construction lending 49:45 - Bob’s closing statements 51:56 - Outro