Why You Can’t Buy Your Downtown Apartment

Is 900 South in Salt Lake City too cool to fail? We think so, which is why we're hosting our annual 801 Day party there on Saturday, Aug. 1 at the Milk Block! Host Ali Vallarta asks Maven co-founder Rocky Donati how the street has evolved and what makes it such a success. RSVP fo ...  Show more

Can Salt Lake City Mayor Erin Mendenhall pull off a third term? Host Ali Vallarta, executive producer Emily Means, and audience development manager Angie Treasure talk about who's already eyeing the 2027 mayoral race and what’s at stake ahead of the 2034 Winter Olympics. Plus, th ...  Show more

The vast majority of urban apartments in the US are geared towards single occupants, couples without kids or maybe young professionals with roommates. It's hard to find apartments with the kind of layout that would fit families. Anyone who's gone looking for that type of space is ...  Show more

It’s Money Talks…live! This episode was taped at The Hewlett Foundation’s annual New Common Sense Conference, where Felix Salmon chatted with Jerusalem Demsas, who covers housing and infrastructure for The Atlantic. They discuss the NIMBY mentality, regulatory tangles holding bac ...  Show more

You might be familiar with this home ownership journey: save for a down payment, buy a condo, live in it for a few years, sell it at a profit, then use that money to buy a bigger home with multiple bedrooms and a backyard. It was the standard home-owning playbook for older mil ...

As cities become ever-more expensive, politicians and housing advocates keep calling for rent control. Economists think that’s a terrible idea. They say it helps a small (albeit noisy) group of renters, but keeps overall rents artificially high by disincentivizing new construc ...