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Cory Doctorow

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Dec 12, 2024

The housing emergency and the second Trump term

Weaponized shelter gave us Trump II; can we fix it despite Trumpism?

A modest pink bungalow in the southwestern style. Its roof is askew, and a mushroom cloud emerges from behind it. The sky around it is filled with menacing storm clouds.

Cory Doctorow

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Oct 24, 2024

The housing crisis considered as an income crisis

“The wage is too damned low” vs “The rent is too damned high.”

A cowboy-hatted, tuxedoed, cigar-smoking Ronald Reagan sits at a coffin/table with the angel of death, which is gesticulating wildly. Reagan holds a green Monopoly house; several more, and a hotel, rest on the coffin before him. The hazy edges of the scene give way to a sepia-tinted, vintage aerial photo of the Levittown suburbs

Cory Doctorow

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Oct 1, 2024

Everyday homeowners are human shields for Wall Street’s Internet of Shit slumlords

Put Wall Street landlords up against a wall.

A rotting apartment living room; the Wall Street ‘Charging Bull’ statue is in one corner; from one of its horns dangles a sign reading ‘FOR RENT WALL ST.’ Through a crumbling doorway, we see an aristocrat laid out on a guillotine, about to be beheaded. Image: Sam Valadi (modified) https://www.flickr.com/photos/132084522@N05/17086570218/ Carlos Delgado (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wall_Street_-_New_York_Stock_Exchange.jpg

Cory Doctorow

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May 22, 2024

How finfluencers destroyed the housing and lives of thousands of people

The real estate speculator bezzle has a very ugly third act.

The exterior of Timber Ridge Apartments in Houston, a two story apartment block. The curb in front of the apartment block is mounded with overflowing dumpsters stacked three high, nearly obscuring the apartment building; these are ringed with chest-high piles of split garbage bags. Superimposed on the image, in needlepoint sampler font, is the legend HOME SWEET HOME.” Image: Boy G/Google Maps (modified) https://pluralistic.net/timberridge

Cory Doctorow

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Apr 27, 2024

The tax sharks are back and they’re coming for your home

Like picking pennies off a dead man’s eyes.

Cory Doctorow

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Jul 12, 2023

Why are so many Californians homeless?

It’s not “homeless migration.”

Why are so many Californians homeless?

Cory Doctorow

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Jun 5, 2023

Wall Street Journal goes to bat for the vultures who want to steal your house

When the editorial page leaks into the news.

Wall Street Journal goes to bat for the vultures who want to steal your house

Cory Doctorow

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Aug 16, 2021

Housing, money laundry, speculation and precarity

Henry George was an optimist.

An abandoned house with graffiti and black mold on the walls. Overlaid in needlepoint font are the words ‘Home Sweet Home.’