Pluralistic: 'We buy ugly houses' is code for 'we steal vulnerable peoples' homes' (11 May 2023)

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'We buy ugly houses' is code for 'we steal vulnerable peoples' homes': The pervasive, predatory sleaze of Homevestor, "the #1 homebuyer in the USA."
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Pluralistic: 03 Jun 2022

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House sales are cratering but inventory is soaring: You are the sucker at the table.
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Pluralistic: 27 Jan 2022

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As stocks tumble, wealthy speculators bid up house prices: The long-run effect of Obama's choice to bail out lenders, not borrowers.
Cops' imaginary fears send addicts to real jail: The deadly myth of the fentanyl contact high.
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Pluralistic: 07 Jan 2022

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Jackpot watch: How the klept operates in the UK.
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Pluralistic: 24 Nov 2021

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Spaniards fight Wall Street landlords: When margins and misery are correlated.
The Tesla-financial complex: When your financial instruments are better than your cars.
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Pluralistic: 27 Sep 2021

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Podcasting "Breaking In": Why you shouldn't take career advice from successful writers.
Democrats, health care monopolies, and market failures: Market health care is a fatal disease.
Shelter is a toxic asset: NIMBYism is a fatal disease.
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Pluralistic: 16 Aug 2021

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Housing, money laundry, speculation and precarity: Henry George was an optimist.
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Pluralistic: 04 Aug 2021

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Vaccine refusal and health insurance: Insurers to unvaccinated: "Drop dead."
Congress has allocated enough money to end the eviction crisis: But they asked the states to hand it out.
Utilities governed like empires: One bad account disconnection can cost you everything.
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Pluralistic: 14 Jun 2021

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The Rent's Too Damned High: A podcast of my Medium column on the long con of asset appreciation.
Highway to Hell: The infrastructure "compromise" is just funny accounting.
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Pluralistic: 22 Sep 2020

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Uber for evicting people: Civvl, a gig economy company, will pay you to evict people.
Part 15 of Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town: Returning to my serialized podcast reading.
Facebook threatens to leave EU: It wants to export Europeans' data to the USA…or else.
Brick House: Kickstarting an independent, "wolf-proof" media co-op.
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