Business For the first time since the 70s, New York State is set to enshrine sweeping tenants' protections Cory Doctorow
Business Pangea raised $180m to buy up low-rent Chicago properties "to help poor people," and then created the most brutally efficient eviction mill in Chicago history Cory Doctorow
fraud Grifter steals dead peoples' houses in gentrifying Philadelphia by forging deed transfers, then flipping them Cory Doctorow
late stage capitalism London's new high-rises: speculators' luxury flats designed never to be occupied Cory Doctorow
late stage capitalism California tenants receive rent-hike threats that will only be rescinded if rent-control initiative fails Cory Doctorow
late stage capitalism California ballot measure to reintroduce rent control met with millions in opposition from Wall Street landlords Cory Doctorow
Business California home-buyers are increasingly reliant on parental gifts to afford their down-payments Cory Doctorow
Business Restaurant servers can't afford San Francisco rents so restaurants are going self-serve Cory Doctorow
Kids Stagnant wages + soaring cost of living + massive cuts to services = collapsing US birth-rate Cory Doctorow
china Alex Stamos schools Apple after they whine about Google revealing a whack of Ios zero-days Cory Doctorow
late stage capitalism Chase's idiotic poverty-shaming "inspirational" tweet, and Twitter users' magnificent responses thereto Cory Doctorow
happy mutants Save the Vulcan! 200 working-class Oakland artists are crowfunding to save their homes and fight the-rent-is-too-damned-high Xeno Evil
finance The rent is too damned high because money-laundering oligarchs bought all the real-estate to clean their oil money Cory Doctorow
