Homebuilder lot supply jumps so fast that 2 housing markets are now ‘significantly oversupplied’

Homebuilder lot supply jumps so fast that 2 housing markets are now ‘significantly oversupplied’

[ad_1] Want more housing market stories from Lance Lambert’s ResiClub in your inbox? Subscribe to the ResiClub newsletter. During the pandemic housing boom, we saw red-hot housing demand quickly absorb much of the available slack in the housing market. Back in 2021, active housing inventory for sale, unsold completed new builds, and available lot supply all plunged to historic lows.…

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A Tour Through Central Park’s Cruising Grounds

A Tour Through Central Park’s Cruising Grounds

[ad_1] Tress’s new book, “The Ramble, NYC 1969” (Stanley/Barker), and a related exhibition currently at the Clamp gallery, in Chelsea, makes me rethink all this. The work was made concurrently with another series, “Open Space in the Inner City: Ecology and the Urban Environment.” The Ramble, a wooded area on the center-west side of Central…

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The hidden costs of becoming an expat

The hidden costs of becoming an expat

[ad_1] Since I was old enough to vote in presidential elections, I’ve heard plenty of grumbling across the political spectrum about moving to Canada if one candidate or another wins. And since I have been a full-time worker, I have also been party to a number of pie-in-the-sky conversations about the expat potential of retiring…

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The ‘zombie internet’ has arrived—and it has devastating consequences for advertising, social media, and the human web

The ‘zombie internet’ has arrived—and it has devastating consequences for advertising, social media, and the human web

[ad_1] In late January, like Dr. Frankenstein pulling the knife switch to jolt his monster alive, entrepreneur Matt Schlicht flipped the digital switch on his vibe-coded social network, Moltbook, unleashing his own monster into the world. The platform made headlines for being the first social media site expressly for AI agents, not humans. But for…

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This classic MTV website goes where Netflix dare not venture

This classic MTV website goes where Netflix dare not venture

[ad_1] Call it the day the music died. On December 31, 2025, MTV’s last music-only stations shut down forever​. The last video played on MTV Music in the U.K. was “Video Killed the Radio Star” by the Buggles—which was also the first video ever played on the original MTV channel in the United States back…

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3 research-backed improv tricks to help manage stress

3 research-backed improv tricks to help manage stress

[ad_1] Stress isn’t just an occasional visitor in our lives—it’s more the houseguest who never got the hint to leave. Between economic uncertainty, workplace upheaval, rounds of layoffs, and the delightful unpredictability of daily life (surprise traffic jams, anyone?), most of us are living in a near-constant state of low-grade panic. But here’s something most…

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Why Spotify’s developers haven’t written new code in more than a month

Why Spotify’s developers haven’t written new code in more than a month

[ad_1] Spotify’s most senior engineers don’t type code anymore. In fact, they have not written a single line of code since December, co-CEO Gustav Söderström revealed during a recent earnings call. It’s not that they’ve stopped working. Instead, through a combination of Claude Code and Honk (a specialized internal system at Spotify), the company’s engineers…

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Richard Brody Presents the 2026 Brody Awards

Richard Brody Presents the 2026 Brody Awards

[ad_1] Listen and subscribe: Apple | Spotify | Google | Wherever You Listen Sign up for our daily newsletter to get the best of The New Yorker in your inbox. Every year, ahead of Oscar night, the film critic Richard Brody joins the New Yorker Radio Hour to discuss his picks for the year’s best…

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