Trump favors the exclusionary zoning that keeps America segregated and economically ossified. Biden opposes it.
Housing
Posted inEconomic Policy
Mortgage Market Déjà Vu
Efforts to privatize mortgage finance will lead to future financial crises.
Posted inCivil Rights in America
No Justice. No Peace.
Underlying the nationwide protests for Black lives is the racial wealth gap.
Posted inEconomic Policy
How to Start Closing the Racial Wealth Gap
An obscure add-on charge for mortgages has put homeownership out of reach, disproportionately for Black Americans.
Posted inEconomic Policy
Is a Housing Crash Coming to Florida?
There are signs that another foreclosure crisis may be looming in this swing state.
Posted inTAP
The Renters’ Revolution
Today on TAP: The first nationwide rent strike will happen this Friday
Posted inCoronavirus
Landlords Illegally Evicting Tenants, Despite Federal Restrictions
The CARES Act is supposed to freeze evictions for tens of millions of renters. But nobody’s enforcing the law.
Posted inCoronavirus
Kushner Squeezes Tenants While Lining Up for Bailout Money
Despite eviction bans in New York, the real-estate firm owned by the president’s son-in-law is telling tenants to pay up.
