ARES Urbanexus Update #179
The American Real Estate Society (ARES) distributes this periodic newsletter, which features real estate-related news and information curated by H. Pike Oliver.
ICE acquiring mega warehouses
ICE is acquiring and turning mega warehouses into detention centers.
Where investors own larger shares of single-family homes in the USA
Small‑scale owners hold three to five times as many homes as large‑scale operators. This runs counter to the popular narrative that institutional investors are the primary force reshaping single‑family housing markets.
Statements by POTUS47 at the World Economic Forum
Statements about U.S. spending, deficit reduction, inflation, and regulatory reform were false, misleading, and unsupported.
Understanding the “Donroe Doctrine”
How POTUS47’s Venezuela strike is redifining hemispheric intervention by the United States of America
Four US corporate organizational models
A range of organizational structures exists for enterprises seeking to balance profit, purpose, and public accountability.
The Moynihan Report and single-family housing in the USA
The Moynihan Report (1965) reinforced America’s single-family housing bias
ARES Urbanexus Update #178
The American Real Estate Society (ARES) distributes this periodic newsletter, which features real estate-related news and information curated by H. Pike Oliver.
Raymond Craib’s early warning about California Forever
In September 2023, historian Raymond B. Craib offered what can best be described as a scholarly “uninformed” warning about the California Forever proposal
Pro‑democracy media voices in the USA
A diverse chorus of historians, veterans, analysts, and strategists is shaping a multifaceted defense of democracy in 2025.
Cyril Roseman
Founder of the Urban Studies Program (now Urban Studies & Plannning) at San Francisco State College (now University) in 1966
ARES Urbanexus Update #177
The American Real Estate Society (ARES) distributes this periodic newsletter, which features real estate-related news and information curated by H. Pike Oliver.
Mannheim and the network state
Man and Society in an Age of Reconstruction was published in 1940. Today, it reads like a prescient framework for examining our fractured society in the USA.
California Forever’s pivot
From stealth assemblage to Suisun City annexation submission — and the road ahead
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The American Real Estate Society (ARES) distributes this periodic newsletter, which features real estate-related news and information curated by H. Pike Oliver.