Category: Real estate
He Tore Down Motels Where Poor Residents Lived During a Housing Crisis. City Leaders Did Nothing.
From the Wire November 14, 2021
by Anjeanette Damon, photography by David Calvert, special to ProPublica November 12, 2021 Co-published with Reno Gazette Journal For most of his life, Ernest Block has managed to stay one step ahead of homelessness. When he…
Wall Street is crippling the single-family housing market
Wade Rathke Meteor Columnist March 10, 2020
New Orleans The financial meltdown in the real estate market of 2007, marked by foreclosures triggered by speculation and broker scams and wiping out the citizen wealth of millions of families, continues to carry a…
Posted in Affordable Housing Economy Housing displacement Housing Policy Neighborhoods News Off the wire Real estate Reveal
Unmasking the secret landlords buying up America
From the Wire January 30, 2020
By Aaron Glantz / December 17, 2019 America’s cities are being bought up, bit by bit, by anonymous shell companies using piles of cash. Modest single-family homes, owned for generations by families, now are held by…
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