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Housing
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Drowning in Profits: A Private Equity Firm, a Missing Pool Fence and the Price of a Child’s Death
The most controversial development in America's housing
Tutors in the Fine Art of Eviction Under Fire in San Francisco
San Francisco lawyers Bornstein & Bornstein and their “Rent Control Boot Camps” have become the latest symbol for inequality in the Bay Area.
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Class Segregation and the Housing Market
There are many forms of discrimination, but one that Americans seem to have a high tolerance for is that based on class.
A Bailout Botched by Centrists
Eisinger says, Obama went wrong in even appointing Geithner, who, as a former head of the New York Federal Reserve under President Bush, linked him politically to the status …
Social Movements and Power: Change From Below in the Dominican Republic
From Santo Domingo, Pedro Franco is an organizer of social movements and mutual-aid cooperatives. He is also a member of CoopHabitat, which promotes housing coops.
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What Problem Is Privatizing Fannie and Freddie Meant to Solve?
It should be possible to block Wall Street's efforts to get a government guarantee for their new foray into the mortgage-backed securities market.
Wall Street’s Land Grab: Firms Amass Rental Empire, Ousting Tenants and Threatening New Housing Crisis
The Blackstone Group, a private equity firm, is now the largest owner of single-family rental homes in the country.
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When Predatory Equity Hit the Big Apple: How Private Equity Came to New York’s Rental Market
Things are heating up inside Wall Street's new rental empire.
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Slumlord Wannabe Blackstone Violates Local Housing Laws by Making Tenants Maintain Rentals
The yawning gap between private equity landlord sales talk and what they are delivering is finally being exposed.
New Lawsuit Alleges That Wells Fargo Has a Manual for Mass Fabrication of Foreclosure Documents
A Federal lawsuit looks to have unearthed a smoking gun about systematic document fabrication at Wells Fargo.