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Presents observations on the life in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California. Chaos caused by high speed vehicles and red lights; High rent of rooms in Los Angeles; Lack of good restaurants and food; Comparison of Hollywood's markets with central open-air markets of tropical cities; Organized rackets of the film industry including competition, injustice, academic lethargy and crass commercialism; Information on luxury in Hollywood but little time to enjoy; Hours of labor put in the motion picture industry; Tendency of children to learn fast in Hollywood.

The article discusses experience of homelessness in U.S. cities. Topics include the impact of higher rent costs on people in cities on the U.S. West Coast, U.S. government policy on affordable housing and reducing homelessness, and the moral and financial costs of homelessness to society. Efforts to spend local government funds to build housing are noted in cities including Los Angeles, California; San Francisco, California; and Seattle, Washington.

The article discusses the dispute between debtor and creditor over post-default real property rents in landowner operating accounts in California. It notes that a court order to appoint a receiver to collect the rents will allow a creditor to collect post-default rents. It mentions that the California Civil Code section 2938 has required rents and rent proceeds to be treated as real property collateral.

The article discusses the author's claim that the act of gentrification, which involves lower-income residents being displaced by high-income individuals, is fairly rare in the U.S. as of 2016, and it mentions myths and information about increasing rents in American cities such as Chicago, Illinois, Honolulu, Hawaii, and San Francisco, California. According to the article, suburban price growth is outpacing urban growth in places such as Las Vegas, Nevada. Real estate values are assessed.

The article details how Santa Clara, California-based company Chegg changed its business model. Back in 2003, the company offered free classified listing for college students until its co-founder Aayush Phumbhra noticed the traffic at Chegg's Web site was only heavy at the beginning of each semester. He also noticed that many visitors were buying and selling mostly textbooks. Phumbhra then decided to rethink Chegg's business model and thought that instead of buying textbooks and selling them, students may want to rent the books.

The article discusses the commercial real-estate market in California's Silicon Valley. At the start of the fourth quarter in 2009 over 43 million square feet of office space was vacant. Firms that occupy space have been able to negotiate steeply-discounted rents. In 2010 expected foreclosures on commercial space could amount to $1.5 billion, according to Real Capital Analytics.

The article discusses Proposition 10, a ballot initiative under consideration in California that would expand government-imposed price controls on residential rentals. It examines how such measures have been criticized by free-market economists based on the lack of evidence on the benefits of rent control policies.

The article discusses a housing initiative from Los Angeles, California Mayor Eric Garcetti's Innovation Team designed to identify underused land for residential projects. It looks at how the need for so-called accessory dwelling units (ADUs) constructed in the back yards of existing homes stems from Los Angeles's rising population and rent prices.

The article reports on the increase in office rent prices in the submarkets in San Diego, California in 2017. Topics discussed include the continued growth of technology companies, the increase in demand for more space in the area, and the willingness of technology firms to pay a premium for office space in neighboring submarkets such as Sorrento Mesa according to commercial real estate brokerage firm CBRF.

The article reports increase in demand for office space by life science and pharmaceutical companies in Sorrento Mesa, California, and talks of companies such as Trilink BioTechnologies, Sorrento Therapeutics and Curology, increase in rent for industrial space and reduction in vacancy rates.

Focuses on the surge of office space leasing and office properties sold in San Francisco, California. Concerns over the growth of rents for the next five years; Details on the largest sales deal on various office buildings; Significance of business services, financial services, media, information technology, tourism, and government in supporting the economic base of the city.

Presents quotes from various publications related to political and social events that took place around the world. Report from the newspaper "The Los Angeles Times" that picketing in Santa Monica, California is prohibited by an ordinance enacted by the City Council; Report from a news item in the newspaper "The Seattle, Washington Star" that two thousand greyhounds are to live in air-conditioned, centrally heated kennels upon completion of the $1,250,000 dog city under construction; Views of automobile manufacturer Henry Ford that labor unions are backed by war-seeking financiers and the financiers want to kill competition so as to reduce the income of workers; Report that according to a decree by Arthur Goerlitzer, assistant Nazi leader of the Berlin District, only 100-percent Aryans may pick up rags and rubbish in the streets and alleys of Berlin, Germany; Report from a letter in the newspaper "The Chicago Daily News" that volunteer increase in rent would be a patriotic gesture; Views of Boake Carter, a journalist in his syndicated column, appearing in the newspaper "The Battle Creek" that life was made for discipline, so that one might more worthily and better enjoy the benefits of another world; Report from an article by Stanley B. James in the newspaper "The Commonweal Catholic Weekly" that a proletariat sufficiently interested in religion to burn relics and statues can be redeemed more easily than one wholly absorbed in questions concerning rates of wages and hours of work.

Deals with the increased apartment construction in the metropolitan areas of Southern California. Results of the study conducted by M/PF Research Inc. on apartment construction in California; Information on the high-profile mixed-use and luxury developments in Southern California; Effect of northern recession on the average rent rates.

The article discusses a report on apartment fundamentals in San Diego County, California from the brokerage firm Marcus & Millichap which predicts that rental demand in the region will likely to outpace supply through 2020. Topics include the brokerage firm's suggestion that half of new apartment rentals will be coming online in downtown San Diego, the expected increase in overall apartment vacancy rate in the county at the end of 2017, and a list of some bigger local apartment deals of 2017.

The article discusses the decision of Coconut's Fish Cafe to approve a new location in downtown Los, Angeles. The company rejected a franchisee's proposed locations 77 times before it approved the new location. According to Coconut's Fish Cafe founder and chief executive officer (CEO) Mike Phillips, the company just wanted to protect the investment of the franchisee. Phillips noted the impact of increasing rental rates on the restaurant business.

The article predicts a slow and uneven rebound in coastal property markets as reported by the April 2010 Industrial Business Indicator from AMB Property. It points out that the recovery is due to the rebound in containerized imports and warehouse space rentals. However, it is predicted that the construction of new facilities will not happen until the second half of 2011. Similar reports on West Coast ports and the vast Inland Empire region east of Los Angeles, California are also mentioned.

The article reports on the move of landlords to lessen their rents and offer concessions due to high vacancy rates in commercial properties in San Diego County, California. Essex Realty Management Inc. reduced its office space lease rates to 1 and 1.70 dollars per square foot per month to retain tenants and attract new ones. Jeff Saywitz, managing director of Saywitz Co., expresses that small-business tenants increased by 20-25 % in 2009-2010.

The article reports on the study by online rental marketplace Apartment List which revealed that rents in San Diego, California has increased from June 2015 to June 2016, however it slightly decreased in July 2016.

The article reports that the city board of supervisors in San Francisco, California is proposing a tax increase on the sale of mega-luxury homes. It comments on the increases in property values and rent costs in San Francisco as a result of an influx of highly paid technology workers which has resulted in an increase in homelessness and tenant evictions. It reports tax hikes would result in 26.8 million dollars in extra annual revenue and would target homes sold for over five million dollars.

The article reflects on the dystopic situation in the city of Los Angeles, California considering its high rental rates, scarcity of water, and too much focus on production.

The article reports that according to a report there is a decrease in industrial vacancy rate and increase in rents in San Diego County, California. Topics discussed include office tower of spec office project Irvine Co. was methodically leased up, an increase in retail vacancy rate, a decrease in space in market for increasing life science industry, North County markets is benefit from lack of commercial spaces and business advocates were expecting increase demand for commercial space.

The article focuses on the rising rent rates in San Diego, California. Many predict that landlords, who were forced in 2004 to offer enticing concessions and tenant improvement allowances to fill vacant space, will gain leverage in 2005. Jay Alexander, a senior vice president at the San Diego office of Colliers International, said that San Diego is turning the page on the tenant-driven market, where tenants call the shots. Office vacancy, which, by many accounts, averaged at or below 10 percent in 2004 countywide, has been diminishing for two years. The overall average asking rental rate in the office market ended 2004 at $2.24 per square foot, per month, on a full service basis, which is a marginal increase over the previous quarter's $2.22.

Reports that the city of San Diego prevailed in a lease dispute with SeaWorld, San Diego on the Mission Bay land it occupies. Request of reductions on the percentage sales for a variety of revenue sources by SeaWorld; Focus on SeaWorld's total revenue last year; Permission of the city government of San Diego to build the ride's structure that rose above a 30-foot height limitation.