A report from Realtor.com. "The building boom in housing complexes across the country is extending to universities. Today's college students are living the good life with amenities such as rooftop pools, private theaters, gaming rooms, and even fully wired outdoor terraces with grilling stations and cabanas."

"'More than anything else, the amenities race has just come from competition,' says Dan Oltersdorf, chief learning officer at Campus Advantage, which manages about 70 student housing communities around the country. 'With the amount of investment that's gone into student housing over the last 10 years, off-campus developments are trying to outdo each other, so we're seeing lazy river pools, golf simulators, climbing walls.'"

The Winston-Salem Journal in North Carolina. "Apartment complexes have become a hot commodity in Forsyth County. 'The sudden interest in speculative apartment development is really a risk-capital response to millennial demographic and psychographic trends in the last decade,' said Tony Plath, retired finance professor at UNC Charlotte."

"There have been six apartment-complex purchases in Forsyth over the past three months, all by out-of-region and out-of-state buyers. 'Investors are trying to find what few pockets of value there are left in the apartment market,' said Mark Vitner, a senior economist for Wells Fargo Securities."

The Idaho Statesman. "Build houses here — apartments even, says Nampa’s City Council. But no more self-storage units. Some industry leaders say Boise’s market has become oversaturated with self-storage units. They warn that if cities don’t take action, they could face an abundance of vacant and deteriorating storage buildings."

"Nampa in particular has unwittingly become a hub for these glorified closets: In the last two years, 18 new storage unit businesses have applied for development permits. Nampa’s planning and zoning staff receives an average of one inquiry every day from developers interested in building storage."

"After local businesses and city planners raised the issue, the City Council voted Monday to enact an emergency moratorium, preventing the city from issuing any new permits for storage units for the next six months. State law allows cities to enact emergency moratoriums in the face of an 'imminent peril to the public health, safety, or welfare.'"

"Protection is what small-business owners Rosemary and Richard Nelson want from the city. Two years ago, the couple moved to Nampa from Southern California and bought an existing self-storage business, Karcher Storage, near the intersection of Karcher and Middleton roads. They spent $60,000 to renovate the 153 units, built over 30 years ago."

"Within a year, another self-storage business went up less than a mile away. Then in May, the couple learned that a new apartment complex directly next door was also making plans for a self-storage business. Already, the Nelsons’ prices were the lowest in the area. Rosemary Nelson said they can’t afford to reduce them further, even as they’ve seen their vacancy rate increase by 10% over the last year."

"'Eventually there are going to be more and more storage facilities and it’s going to kill the whole industry,' Rosemary said in an interview."

The Los Angeles Times in California. "Blueground, a company first launched in Greece and backed by $28 million in venture capital, has around 115 corporate-stay units in the Los Angeles area and is adding 'like 20 every month,' said Christopher Tin, the company’s local general manager."

"Blueground said it waits for tenants to move out on their own before converting units and won’t work with landlords who buy out tenants. Tin said as the rental market softened landlords have increasingly turned toward the start-up to fill vacancies. It isn’t harming affordability, he contends, in part because it isn’t immune to market conditions. In some neighborhoods where supply has swelled, Tin said Blueground has been forced to rent units below the price it paid the landlord."

"Richard Green, director of the USC Lusk Center for Real Estate, said an increase in such concepts could indeed push prices up slightly in neighborhoods where lots of those companies operate. In theory, he said, there would be less housing for long-term tenants. And as vacancies dwindle, landlords would feel less pressure to drop rent to fill units."

From City Watch in California. "Under Garcetti, whose first term began in 2001, Los Angeles traffic has gone from very bad to the worst in the nation to the worst in the world. We spent over $1 billion to widen the 405 Freeway from the Valley to the Westside, but the congestion on that portion of the 405 is worse. Of course, it’s worse. Whose fault is that? The liars who told the public that if they greatly increase density in the Basin, fewer people would commute from the Valley to the Westside? Blaming the liars like Pravda West (LA Times) and Garcetti’s minions of deception is like blaming the home invasion robbers after you’ve opened your front door, made tea and cookies for them and insisted that they clean your bank account."

"The USC’s Price School of Public Policy has been advising for over a decade that Los Angeles’ growth is slowing. The data shows no upward pressure on housing prices by any increase in the home buying market. Not only is NewGeography correct that the city constantly lies about the four million population ceiling being busted, but our tiny increase in population contributes zero to housing demand."

"The Big Lie is that we have not built enough apartments and new homes. (Housing prices and rents are increasing due to a variety of criminal frauds which are speared-headed by a City Hall that is protected by morally bankrupt judges.) We the People are the ones who are so foolish as to not ask why we had a 16% increase in homelessness in one year when the population increased only 21/100th of 1%. Don’t look to 'Pravda West' for the answer."

"Garcetti’s Manhattanization Mania has been designed to funnel hundreds of billions to the 1% by targeting rent-controlled units for destruction. That is why people are suffering and dying on the streets and why Pravda West continues with its obnoxious lie that the solution is to give more money to the City Hall criminals."