Virtually every city in the United States bans multifamily homes at least some neighborhoods, and many cities most residential land is restricted to single family homes. This case even though metropolitan areas are facing skyrocketing housing costs increased environmental degradation that could be alleviated by denser supply. Some scholars have argued an unrepresentative set of vocal developmen...

Operating costs are an important, but not much studied, component of apartment financial performance. This paper establishes an economic framework for interpreting operating costs and uses a unique data set to investigate the determinants of operating costs. Empirical results are consistent with theory and indicated that housing quality is a strong driver of operating costs; older properties mu...

The paper presents the results of research on trends in shaping of multifamily buildings in Poland on the example of Wrocław, after Polish accession to the European Union. The study is conducted within the research project: “Trends in creating of multifamily housing development since 2004, on the Wrocław study case” supported by Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education and will be comple...

A professionally led multifamily psychoeducation program for families with a schizophrenic member was designed according to participating families' reported concerns. The families provided information on their problems, needs, coping, and requirements from the program. They expressed more concern about "negative" symptoms of schizophrenia (e.g., social withdrawal) than about positive ones (e.g....

Indicators of the financial condition of the multifamily housing stock can potentially inform several policy issues, such as the loss of affordable rental units, multifamily developers’ access to capital, and the emerging secondary mortgage market for multifamily properties. Several rules of thumb exist for assessing financial condition. This article uses the Residential Finance Survey to inves...

Despite their importance as investment vehicles and as housing, very little analysis of multifamily markets has been undertaken to date. The literature that has been produced has, with few exceptions discussed below, focused on the aggregate national market, or occasionally on the regional market. But housing markets are well known to be local and diverse. The purpose of this paper is to examin...

A multifamily set representation of a finite simple graph G is a multifamily F of sets (not necessarily distinct) for which each set represents a vertex in G and two sets in F intersects if and only if the two corresponding vertices are adjacent. For a graph G, an edge clique covering (edge clique partition, respectively) Q is a set of cliques for which every edge is contained in at least (exac...

We tested a threshold-based bed bug (Cimex lectularius L.) management approach with the goal of achieving elimination with minimal or no insecticide application. Thirty-two bed bug infested apartments were identified. These apartments were divided into four treatment groups based on apartment size and initial bed bug count, obtained through a combination of visual inspection and bed bug monitor...