Eric Artenstein's Blog

Did you know that the recommended amount of money to allocate to rent is no more than 30% of your salary? Sadly, in California, many cannot find living at those rates. California is currently battling a housing shortage as rent and land costs are increasing at a faster rate than wages. Although the problem seems so daunting and impossible to fix, I am happy to let you know that our government has actually made great strides in improving this issue by implementing the Supplemental Development Regulations to incentivize developers to build more low-income housing units. However, these government documents are hard to understand while the U.S Departments of Housing and Urban Development is understaffed and inundated with inquiries, not enough developers are aware of the opportunities available to them. This is why we, Housing for All, want to educate real estate developers on the options available to them under the new regulations. That is why we would like to create a web...

World We Dare To Imagine Post 1 This is a very difficult post for me to write because I wouldn't say I have a simple problem that I have a passion for fixing. As I approach graduation, I have been so focused on my career that I have not given much time to anything else. However, this semester, I am taking a class called "Social Problems" in which I learned a lot about issues or society faces which has sparked an interest in many fields for me. Since I don't have a single passion for me, I wanted to break this post into two things. The first is housing issues, second is our education system. My family is involved in real estate and recent laws have incentivized real estate developers to build more low-income housing. I was pleasantly surprised by this new initiative and I think it is wonderful but there is still so much room for growth. I would love to start a coalition of real estate developers to work alongside the city planners and activists to find the be...

Summer Internship As I approach the summer, I am in the process of looking for summer internships. I have received offers from two companies and it is time to make a decision. I wanted to use this blog post to lay out the pros and cons of each offer to try to clarify which is the better opportunity. I would also love to hear any outside opinions on each opportunity or what other factors you guys think I should take into account. Job 1: The first offer I received is from a construction management company to work as a construction finance analyst on their finance team. This company is headquartered in Boston and I would be working out of their Los Angeles office in West LA. Construction is something that is very interesting to me and a field that I could see myself entering after graduation.           Pros:           - Growing company with opportunity for hire upon graduation.           - Very frie...