a breaking point For the first time since the 70s, New York State is set to enshrine sweeping tenants' protections Cory Doctorow
pangea 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
stealing houses Grifter steals dead peoples' houses in gentrifying Philadelphia by forging deed transfers, then flipping them Cory Doctorow
safe deposit boxes in the sky London's new high-rises: speculators' luxury flats designed never to be occupied Cory Doctorow
#yesonprop10 California tenants receive rent-hike threats that will only be rescinded if rent-control initiative fails Cory Doctorow
#yesonprop10 California ballot measure to reintroduce rent control met with millions in opposition from Wall Street landlords Cory Doctorow
new feudalism California home-buyers are increasingly reliant on parental gifts to afford their down-payments Cory Doctorow
magnolia park Greedy landlords create a mass-extinction event in Burbank's indie paradise Cory Doctorow
cost disease Restaurant servers can't afford San Francisco rents so restaurants are going self-serve Cory Doctorow
capitalism doesn't need humans Stagnant wages + soaring cost of living + massive cuts to services = collapsing US birth-rate Cory Doctorow