Today On TAP: A new law may spur housing construction. But the state must also boost median incomes to make housing affordable.
Housing
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Trump Has Found a Way to Exacerbate the Housing Shortage
Today on TAP: With housing starts at a five-year low, his ICE agents deport hundreds of construction workers every day.
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Mamdani’s Economic Populism Closes Gap With Big-Money Rival Cuomo
Progressive candidates and researchers say his approach can win the U.S. back from Trumpism.
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Wall Street’s Corruption of the Democrats Is Broader Than Crypto
‘Abundance’ needs to include constraints on predatory capitalism.
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Colorado’s Governor Greenlights Price-Fixing Algorithms
Democrats in Colorado’s legislature unanimously passed a bill reining in price-fixing software like RealPage. Once again, Gov. Jared Polis broke away from his party and vetoed it.
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Privatizing Speculative Gain, Socializing Risk
Trump’s grand design for Fannie Mae ignorantly repeats a sordid history.
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Corporate Landlords Show Racist Eviction Patterns
A new study reveals that large national landlords in Los Angeles are disproportionately evicting Black tenants.
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Runaway Tren
How a Colorado slumlord’s psyop turned into a brand-new ‘forever war’ on Venezuela
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The Abundance Option
Fifteen years ago, I wrote that Democrats couldn’t build things anymore, and that Dems needed to better balance regulation with production.
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How Corporate Pardons Create Monopolies
Rocket wants to became the only mortgage company in America. The CFPB found its tactics to be illegal—until Donald Trump let the company off the hook.