It’s going to take force to fight climate change and there’s little time to waste. Asking and negotiating won’t do the job.
Read more...Looking at arguments used to justify original claims on land (meaning private ownership versus common ownership or use).
Read more...Local activists are having some success in fighting Big Finance landlords who have become big, ruthless players in rental housing.
Read more...A summary of the many reasons to view Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin with contempt.
Read more...Why “building tall” is not an answer to urban housing affordability.
Read more...Gentrification is less of an accident than you might have been led to believe.
Read more...Trump’s Treasury Dept renews and modestly extends real estate money laundering reg– which fails to address the scope of dirty money issues.
Read more...Further discussion of why CalPERS’ latest Big Idea for private equity needs a Big Rethink.
Read more...The current state of play at Grenfell Tower, with a question yet to be answered.
Read more...Credit booms tend to go hand in hand with a misallocation of resources – most notably towards the construction sector – and a slowdown in productivity growth, with long-lasting adverse effects on the real economy.
Read more...Why high levels of mortgage delinquencies in the New York City area are a symptom of still-unresolved mortgage abuses.
Read more...By Lambert Strether of Corrente. I said I had some things to do before I left London; one of them was to go see if I could take some photographs of Grenfell Tower. We don’t normally do photo essays at Naked Capitalism, but since I was on the spot, I thought it made sense. The […]
Read more...Here are some visual aids to help the Fed spot the housing bubble.
Read more...A Canadian subprime mortgage lender is on the ropes. Is the end of the real estate bubble nigh? If so, how much damage will banks take?
Read more...A trio of academics compare charter school tactics to Wall Street’s raiders.
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