Office-to-Apartment Conversions – A Good Idea, but Tricky to Pull Off (Audio)
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Attorney Kimberlee Stafford studies office-to-apartment conversions as a possible response to the housing crisis. Apartments, Commercial Buildings, Conversion, Office Closures, Residential Leases, Single-Family Housing,...more
I recently read a fascinating article on a recently completed multi-family development in Alexandria, Virginia called Park+Ford. It describes the conversion of a 1980s era office park into 435 units of housing. What makes...more
A recent California Appellate Court decision provided tenants with additional protections when it clarified that local rent control laws applied to a single-family home in which the landlord rented rooms in the home to...more
A rent control initiative titled the “Affordable Housing Act” — but criticized by others as the “California Housing Freeze” — has qualified as Proposition 10 on the November 2018 ballot. What is it?...more