Contactless communities

This week's top multifamily headlines: building and developing the right teams, mitigating disaster with smart home tech, self-guided tour best practices, the FHFA's extension of the eviction moratorium, property management labor issues persist and supporting the contactless community.

This week's top multifamily news includes: work-from-home's impact on resident needs, continued confidence in multifamily housing fundamentals, contactless package management, diversity and inclusion in multifamily, the year-end multifamily buying spree and workforce housing development.

Among the top storylines in multifamily housing this week: reevaluating the contactless community hype, reassessing data-sharing processes, the benefits of eliminating breed restrictions, middle-income housing opportunities, apartment investors mulling distressed mall opportunity and apartment values on the rebound.

Ever since the pandemic began, we've heard a lot of talk about "contactless" apartment communities. Apartment operators want to make sure their communities are as safe as possible to prevent the spread of the coronavirus and to make sure residents and visiting prospects feel safe.