Thursday, May 31, 2018

CLICK HERE for A Guide to Some of My Blog Posts, Hither and Yon






I've been blogging for several years now.  I first started blogging at the Graaskamp Center for Real Estate, when we had control of our own website.  But "central planning" won out at the Wisconsin School of Business, as the School determined that in today's world, the benefits of a school-wide format and control over content exceeded the benefits of bottom-up content. Probably the right call, though I was sorry I no longer had the opportunity to bloviate at that location.

Once I "retired" in 2016 -- notice the quotes! -- I started my own blog, at this location. Some months later, my friend Morris Davis, Academic Director of Rutgers Center for Real Estate, started a very ambitious blog, and recruited yours truly and noted macroeconomist Julia Coronado to provide the majority of blog entries.

So my blog entries are scattered around at three different locations.  This post is a directory of  a number of my favorite posts, organized thematically , rather than chronologically or by the location of the post.

This post will be updated from time to time as I write more posts or find the odd one in some forgotten corner of this inter-web-net thing.

By the way, there are a lot of great blog posts at Rutgers written by Julia, Morris, and other colleagues.  Check them out!

And see the long list of "Malpezzi Favorites" to the right of this column for links to other interesting blogs and sources.

Back to my blogging.  I've got a wide range of interests, but I've written more about housing than any other single subject, so let's start there.


NB: * means it's one of my favorites.




YIKES!  Wisconsin has busted a number of my links!!!


I just discovered that the Wisconsin School of Business has taken down some (not all) of my UW blog posts.  They are dropping some "old" blog entries.  No sense of history, I guess.

Well, I suppose any large organization needs to do a little housecleaning.  But, before they went all Marie Kondo on us -- didn't those entries "spark joy" in anyone at UW anymore?  😧

I will leave the broken links here for the moment, marked with an X at the beginning.  I'll try to get the files and repost them sometime in the next few weeks.

Updated locations for those posts on the way.  Sorry for any inconvenience!


YIKES! YIKES!  Now Rutgers has moved their Real Estate Center Blog!


Now I just found out that Rutgers' Webmaster is playing with us too, moving all the Rutgers Blog posts to a new location:

https://realestate.business.rutgers.edu/blog

That means all my links to Rutgers entries are broken.  You can find my blog entries (and others by Morris Davis, Julia Coronado and others) by going to the link above and scrolling down.  But that's not always convenient.  OK, time to get to work and fix broken links.  Double sorry.

When I've fixed and/or checked a link below, I'll add ✅


In 2020, I got obsessed with COVID-19. It's not done yet!


A small posting on a big problem: Coronavirus.  ✅NB the post is small, but the files you will download there are large and chock-full of information.

Several related postings:

Thinking about Thinking: Are You a Bayesian?  ✅is much broader than coronavirus; but the post includes discussion about how Bayesian concepts allow us to correctly interpret results from COVID-19 tests, which, like most medical tests, have false positives and false negatives.

The Coronavirus at the University of Wisconsin: Two Presentations ✅  As the title suggests, I gave two short presentations to UW; focus includes analysis of what UW and other universities should be doing to open as safely as possible.

Cities and the Pandemic: Observations and Scenarios ✅ Based on two presentations I gave to fellow World Bank alumni, and some current staff, on how the pandemic might affect cities in general, and transportation in particular.

Economic Impact of COVID-19 on the Housing Market. ✅ Just what it says.  This one is evolving more than most.

I haven't posted on this for some time -- I have some additonal material I'll share at a future date.


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Housing Posts


The first batch are mostly domestic, although over time I'll post more about my international work.

Housing supply and demand: some basics ✅

*A first look at housing “affordability” in New Jersey and the United States ✅

*Low-income housing programs that work: 3 posts on vouchers

*Low-income housing programs that work: 3 posts on land use and development regulation, NIMBYs and YIMBYs:







"The Calculator:" A peaen to the HP 12-C

A digression on brutalist architecture ✅

I was one of a team of bloggers at Rutgers.  You can find the complete list of Rutgers Center for Real Estate Blogs here. ✅  Great contributions by Morris Davis, Julia Coronado, and other colleagues on a wide range of topics!