Tenants Find Strength in Numbers in Fight Against Financialization of Housing
Tenant unions are forming across the country to battle rent hikes, poor living conditions, and the eviction-to-prison pipeline.
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FEMA Buyouts vs. Risky Real Estate: New Maps Reveal Post-flood Migration Patterns Across the US
Selling may be good for homeowners who can find buyers, but it doesn’t make the community more resilient.
Read more...How Climate Change Is Driving Home Insurance Turmoil
Climate-fueled storms and wildfires are increasing costs and pushing insurers to the limit. What happens if the market breaks?
Read more...Ending Taxes on Home Sales Would Benefit the Wealthiest Households Most – Part of a Larger Pattern in Trump Tax Plans
With Trump chaos-making and zone-flooding, some gimmies to the well-f, like a proposed tax break on home sales, are going under the radar.
Read more...Banks Can’t Survive Climate Change
Richard Murphy argues a massive banking collapse is coming — and the cause isn’t speculation this time. It’s climate change.
Read more...Financial Times Study, Finding Blacks Twice as Likely as Whites to Have Mortgage Applications Rejected, Reignites Debate Over Discrimination
A Financial Times study stirs the pot with a new analysis: blacks and other out groups still face considerable discrmination in lending
Read more...Trump Floats Idea of Declaring Housing Emergency: Another Self-Sabotage Operation?
Quelle surprise! The Scott Bessent announcement of a possible Trump housing emergency made it sound like a stunt, not a plan.
Read more...Charter Cities Attempting to Create a Libertarian Paradise
Libertarians are engaging in colonialism 2.0 by setting up self-governing enclaves in poor countries.
Read more...Fed Governor Lisa Cook v. Trump: “That Mortgage Document Doesn’t Say What You Think It Says”
More on the holes in the Trump allegations that Fed governor Lisa Cook committed mortgage fraud.
Read more...Is Price Fixing Protected by the First Amendment?
RealPage continues ugly post-Citizens United trend, and provides more evidence that the Democrat Abundance enthusiasts are full of hot air.
Read more...“Could 2008 Happen Again?”
Private debt levels, particularly for real estate, look evocative of the 2008 crisis. But how is a rerun likely to differ?
Read more...Federal Reserve, Using Non-Compliant Accounting, Hides Over $100 Billion a Year of Losses and Resulting Negative Equity, Due to Illegal Bank Subsidies
A former Fed economist explains in detail how the central bank has been using dodgy accounting to hide losses from impermissible subsidies
Read more...What the World Can Learn from Uruguay as the Global Housing Crisis Deepens
Cooperative housing has been a big success in building affordable housing in Uruguray. But can this model be exported to the US?
Read more...“The Corporate Takeover of Housing”
Debunking some widely held misperceptoins about why US housing is so pricey.
Read more...Housing a Basic Right or Playground for Global Capital? – Paul Jay
How the financialization of housing destroys the societal fabric and why we need to make housing public infrastructure—like schools or libraries.
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