American cities are (finally) beginning to hear about social housing.
real estate
Posted inTAP
Inflation and Housing Gentrification
Today on TAP: The price-gouging in affordable housing units has nothing to do with other sources of inflation.
Posted inTAP
The Oligarchs Who Abuse Real Estate
Today on TAP: State and local governments can uncover their identities and take some of the profit out of their maneuvers.
Posted inHousing
Why Is Biden Pushing People Back to the Office?
How about converting our depopulated downtowns into affordable housing instead?
Posted inWorking in America
Predatory Hotel Investment Trusts Are Decimating Workers’ Rights and Democrats’ Most Loyal Unions
Ninety-eight percent of hotel workers were laid off when the pandemic hit. Real estate investors smelled an opportunity.
Posted inEconomic Policy
The Warehouse Space Race
With warehouse capacity at a premium, businesses try to get goods and move them out as global economic chaos disrupts long-held ideas about stocking stuff just in time.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
NFT Investors: JPEGs Are Just a Stepping-Stone
Enthusiasts freely admit the buzzy collectibles are a bubble. But they’re betting NFTs are scaffolding for a new internet architecture that’s here to stay.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Rollups: All Monopolies Are Local
How one supermarket chain, Stop & Shop, abuses property transfers to frustrate competition
Posted inHousing
America’s Hidden Fire Kindling
Federally subsidized housing complexes, many of them owned by for-profit investors, fail to enforce basic safety standards.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Cowboy Drugstore
Traces of a kleptocrat from Iraq to Delaware to Miami