kontextmaschine:

One thing holding American labor mobility back might be the decline of medium-term furnished housing below the traveling executive “Extended Stay” level

From downtown residential hotels to all those “Furnished Rooms” signs on apartment buildings in old photos, it just used to be more practical to show up with nothing more than a suitcase of clothes and set up house indefinitely with the option to take that suitcase and leave at any point

which in turn probably has something to do with the dispersal of wage labor away from the urban core so people contemplating the investment lack confidence that come what may, a stream of workers will always be coming to this particular location