Copyfight Property developer caught using critic's photo in promotional materials, demands an end to criticism as a condition of paying for the use Cory Doctorow
late stage capitalism Manhattan: a city of empty luxury condos and overflowing homeless shelters Cory Doctorow
canada Canada's infrastructure was once cheap and effective to build. Now, it's a titanic transfer from taxpayers to the world's biggest businesses and investors Rosemary Frei
racism Elizabeth Warren has a plan to reform "Heirs' Property," which allows wealthy white property developers to steal Black family homes Cory Doctorow
uk After the Oliver Twist poorhouse became luxury housing with a segregated playground, London bans segregated play-areas Cory Doctorow
law Heirs' property: how southern states allow white land developers to steal reconstruction-era land from Black families Cory Doctorow
Business The UK government gave away cheap money for property purchase deposits, which the wealthy abused, driving up property prices and leaving UK taxpayers exposed Cory Doctorow
class war Connecticut's racist NIMBYs have used zoning laws and dirty tricks to make it one of the most unequal, racially segregated states in the union Cory Doctorow
uk Majority of London's newly built luxury flats are unsold, raising the spectre of "posh ghost towers" Cory Doctorow
monopolism The story of how Buffalo's oldest, best-established Black neighborhood was literally wiped off the map is a perfect parable about systemic bias — UPDATED Cory Doctorow
fraud Grifter steals dead peoples' houses in gentrifying Philadelphia by forging deed transfers, then flipping them Cory Doctorow
finance The rent is too damned high because money-laundering oligarchs bought all the real-estate to clean their oil money Cory Doctorow
gop Six years ago, North Carolina Republicans voted in a law decreeing that the seas weren't rising Cory Doctorow