HeyJaredJonathan Lansner
STORY ANGLES - Focuses on housing affordability and market dynamics: Explores how economic factors like mortgage rates, rent trends, and housing supply impact affordability and accessibility.
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Building boom? LA-Orange County permits hit 2nd fastest multifamily pace since 1990 (opens the original)
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Apartment developers in Los Angeles and Orange counties started 2026 with a splash, filing the second-highest number of building plans in the past 36 years. My trusty spreadsheet discovered this construction surge by reviewing building permit data from the Census Bureau. These stats estimate plans for new multifamily housing, a segment of construction that primarily consists of apartment complexes. Permits don’t immediately translate into more choices for tenants, as the construction process is
California home prices 3rd weakest in US, by this math (opens the original)
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A rare bit of good news for California house hunters: Mid-year pricing was at its weakest in nearly three years. Well, that was before the housing market was hit with 7% mortgages once again. My trusty spreadsheet reviewed a curious home price index from the Federal Housing Finance Agency that tracks the prices of more affordable homes, using purchase and refinancing application data. This index shows that in the 12 months through June, California home prices gained only 0.9%. How slow is that?
California consumer confidence tumbles to 13-year low (opens the original)
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This year’s surprising optimism of California consumers collapsed this month. My trusty spreadsheet’s review of the Conference Board’s September report on monthly consumer confidence, released Sept. 29, found shopper psyche across the Golden State tumbled to its lowest level since March 2013. The statewide index, built from constant public polling, plunged 35% from August, the third-largest one-month drop since tracking of California confidence started in 2007. September’s decline puts the index
How inflation eats up your household’s income (opens the original)
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Why is almost everybody so grumpy about the cost of living? A recently updated dataset confirms these inflation anxieties, as rising costs gobble up more of whatever income growth you managed to earn. My trusty spreadsheet reviewed something economists call “real median household income” for the 50 states and the District of Columbia. Simply put, that’s how the Census Bureau each year estimates consumer buying power: what a household makes – including paychecks, investments and pensions – after
California layoffs drop as job growth outperforms US (opens the original)
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Put politely, numerous readers have questioned my sanity after seeing recent columns about how California’s job market is outperforming the rest of the nation so far this year. I understand the feelings, as there is an unexpected resilience in the state’s economy in 2026, especially given the external forces you’d expect to be major challenges. My critics suggest I must be ignoring news of layoffs across the state. Or that my trusty spreadsheet is broken. Yes, I see the job cuts. But anecdotes a
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