Business Pangea raised $180m to buy up low-rent Chicago properties "to help poor people," and then created the most brutally efficient eviction mill in Chicago history Cory Doctorow
late stage capitalism Burbank! Come to an emergency City Hall meeting on 10/29 to deal with the city's eviction crisis! Cory Doctorow
urban theory Owner of Phoenix apartment building serves eviction notices to every tenant so he can turn their homes into unlicensed hotel rooms Cory Doctorow
economics The rent's less damned high: rents falling in most of America's most expensive cities Cory Doctorow
scams Thanks to the 2008 foreclosure crisis, a Kuwaiti ponzi schemer was able to single-handedly blight cities across America Cory Doctorow
corruption Wells Fargo blames "computer glitch" for its improper foreclosure on 545 homes Cory Doctorow
guillotine watch The Rent's Too Damned High: 15,000 words on the ways real-estate speculation and inequality have killed NYC Cory Doctorow