Today on TAP: The forces behind the Surfside disaster
real estate
Posted inHousing
The Problem With the ‘BlackRock Buying Houses’ Meme
Here’s the reality of institutional buyers and the single-family rental market.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Social Distancing
The wealthy have pulled out of the orbit of the rest of the country. Can they be leashed back?
Posted inEconomic Policy
The End of Retail
What Amazon, private equity, and real estate conglomerates are doing to the retail industry today is a rerun of what discounters like Walmart did in the 1970s.
Posted inPolitics
Undoing Prop 13
California’s 1978 ballot measure ushered in the era of inadequate government and kicked off the state’s decline. Voters may finally be ready to repeal it.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Wealthy Congressman Repeatedly Squeezes Small-Business Tenants
Texas Republican Michael McCaul’s real estate firms have pursued two dozen lawsuits for back rent in the San Antonio area, despite structural issues with the properties and other hardships.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
GOP Lawmaker Leads Fight to Get His Industry a Government Bailout
Rep. Van Taylor voted against aid for renters and student debtors—but the real estate mogul is now using his office to pressure the government to give his commercial real estate industry a government bailout.
Posted inCoronavirus
Unsanitized: Commercial Real Estate and the American Lifestyle Shift
Plus, our special report on universal family care. This is The COVID-19 Daily Report for October 19, 2020.
Posted inEconomic Policy
All the President’s Tax Scams
Trump took it to a typical extreme, but the scandal is what’s legal.
Posted inPolitics
Richard Neal’s Inner Circle of Corporate Lobbyists and Real Estate Developers
Friends, family, and staff of Rep. Richard Neal have all benefited from the revolving door linking Springfield and K Street, at great cost to Massachusetts residents.