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Starter Homes Are Being Built at an Almost Comically Tiny Fraction of the Rate They Once Were Decades Ago, and Builders Admit the Math Behind Them Simply Stopped Making Any Sense
The starter home, once the default entry point into homeownership, has all but disappeared from what builders actually put up each year. Construction of new entry-level, smaller-footprint homes has fallen […]
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More American Households Now Include a Grown Adult Child Living Back Home With Their Parents Than at Almost Any Point Ever Recorded, and Census Data Reveals Exactly Why It Keeps Getting Worse
The image of a fresh graduate moving back into a childhood bedroom used to carry a stigma. It has become common enough that it barely qualifies as remarkable anymore: more […]
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Homeowners Who Installed a Tiny Energy Monitor Right Next to Their Breaker Panel Say It Instantly Changed How Their Whole Family Uses Electricity, Almost Overnight and Without Warning
Most homeowners’ relationship with their electric bill begins and ends with the total at the bottom of the monthly statement. A small category of whole-home energy monitors, wired directly into […]
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Security Researchers Found a Way to Open Some of the Most Popular Smart Garage Door Openers From Anywhere in the World, and the Company Refused to Fix It Even After a Federal Warning
Years after a security researcher first demonstrated that certain smart garage door openers could be opened remotely from anywhere in the world, the underlying lesson has not lost its relevance: […]
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Homeowners Are Quietly Canceling Their Video Doorbell Subscriptions After Finally Doing the Math on How Much Money They Have Paid Just to Watch Their Own Front Porch
A video doorbell’s hardware is usually a one-time purchase. The subscription that unlocks its actual useful features is not, and a growing number of homeowners are doing the math on […]
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Smart Home Owners Were Promised One Universal Standard That Would Finally Make Every Single Device Work Together Seamlessly, and Years Later Plenty of Gadgets Still Flatly Refuse to Talk to Each Other
Matter was supposed to end the smart home’s biggest headache: buying a device from one brand only to discover it refuses to talk to the hub, app, or voice assistant […]
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Homeowner’s Bold Grandmillennial Living Room Reveal Split the Entire Internet Right Down the Middle, With Half Calling It Gorgeously Cozy and Half Calling It an Absolute Cluttered Mess
Grandmillennial design — the maximalist, doily-and-chintz-adjacent aesthetic that borrows heavily from a grandparent’s formal living room and reassembles it for a younger homeowner — has become one of the more […]
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Renter Transformed Her Bland, Builder Grade Apartment Into Something Completely Unrecognizable Using Nothing but Removable Materials Her Notoriously Strict Lease Actually Allowed
Renters have historically accepted a simple trade-off: blank walls and beige everything in exchange for a security deposit that comes back in full. A wave of design-forward renters is increasingly […]
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Corporate Travelers Booking Vacation Rentals for Months at a Time Are Quietly Turning Short Term Listings Into De Facto Long Term Housing, and Full Time Neighbors Say the Revolving Door of Strangers Never Stops
Short-term rentals were built around a specific idea: a family on vacation, staying a few nights, moving on. Increasingly, the guest checking into a listing next door is a corporate […]
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Airbnb Hosts Are Filing Damage Claims Through the Platform’s Own Protection Program at a Record Pace, and Hosts Say Actually Getting Paid Is Now Taking Months Longer Than It Ever Used To
Airbnb’s own host protection program, AirCover, was built to reassure property owners that damage from a careless guest would not come entirely out of their own pocket. Hosts are now […]