the nasty party On Grenfell's second anniversary, 60,000 Britons are still living in firetraps clad in the same deadly, decorative materials Cory Doctorow
a breaking point For the first time since the 70s, New York State is set to enshrine sweeping tenants' protections Cory Doctorow
american apartheid Connecticut's racist NIMBYs have used zoning laws and dirty tricks to make it one of the most unequal, racially segregated states in the union Cory Doctorow
occupational diversity To chase out low-waged workers, Mountain View is banning overnight RV and van parking Cory Doctorow
poor doors The Oliver Twist workhouse is becoming a block of luxury flats with a "poor door" 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
hive of scum and villainy Vancouver's housing bubble was driven by billions in laundered criminal proceeds Cory Doctorow
tenancy "Smart" doorlocks have policies that let landlords and third parties spy on you Cory Doctorow
AbdulAziz HouHou Thanks to the 2008 foreclosure crisis, a Kuwaiti ponzi schemer was able to single-handedly blight cities across America Cory Doctorow
jim crow with english characteristics London developer makes last-minute changes to lock poor kids out of "communal" playground Cory Doctorow
not so safe deposit boxes in the sky Majority of London's newly built luxury flats are unsold, raising the spectre of "posh ghost towers" Cory Doctorow
the vulcan Save the Vulcan! 200 working-class Oakland artists are crowfunding to save their homes and fight the-rent-is-too-damned-high Xeno Evil
schadenfoxtons London's awful estate agents are cratering, warning of a "prolonged downturn" in the housing market Cory Doctorow
minsky moments Signs that China's real-estate bubble will burst and take the economy with it Cory Doctorow
mafiyeh states Kleptocracy in America: Russian-style corruption, driven by global oligarchs, enabled by US elites Cory Doctorow
stealing houses Grifter steals dead peoples' houses in gentrifying Philadelphia by forging deed transfers, then flipping them Cory Doctorow
