‘What I saw is someone who is not for sale,’ Katie Porter told the Prospect.
Housing
Posted inHousing
California Voters Revisit Statewide Rent Control Law
The housing crisis puts the Costa-Hawkins Act under the microscope for the third time in six years.
Posted inEconomic Policy
Inflation Is Whipped. Someone Wake Up Jerome Powell.
Time for the Federal Reserve to cut interest rates.
Posted inEconomic Policy
We Can and Should Address Racial Disparities
Most of the programs that would be most beneficial to racial equality are actually universal policies.
Posted inVideos
The Prospect Weekly Roundup: Their Whole Racket Does Not Work
Our investigations editor takes us through some of the biggest scams of the week.
Posted inLaw and Justice
SCOTUS Rules on Homelessness as DOJ Reveals a War on the Poor
The Supreme Court’s coming decision on homelessness will exacerbate a new, growing problem.
Posted inHousing
How an ‘Algorithm’ Turned Apartment Pools Green
RealPage, the rent-fixing software company currently under FBI investigation, also has apps for bogus fees, monetizing vacant apartments and inflating toxic property bubbles.
Posted inHousing
Homeowners Want Housing Prices to Go Up
This is ultimately the biggest hurdle for affordable-housing policy.
Posted inHousing
Hell Is an Underwater Landlord
Millions of tenants are trapped in a rotten cycle of overflowing trash, daily water outages, and a healthy rat population.
Posted inTAP
Inflation, Misguided Economics, and the Fed
Today on TAP: Once again, mainstream analysts and Fed economists miss the real story in the latest inflation numbers—which is hidden in plain view if you bother to look.