Mortgage predation is baaack! And the Wall Street Journal aids and abets it by choosing not to undertand the issues.
Read more...Oopsie! Still perceived-to-be-high housing prices, thanks to higher mortgage rates, is a landlord’s wet dream. Who’d have thunk it?
Read more...Clearing up misinformation about the new Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac mortgage fees, coming into effect May 1.
Read more...Data about who holds CRE loans is incomplete, but more is owned by investors than the media generally acknowledges.
Read more...How much is “information sharing” between mega property management companies driving the rise in housing costs?
Read more...oth parties are exacerbating the city/country split. How different are their interests?
Read more...Why renting is even more expensive than ever, even pinching the soi-disant middle class.
Read more...DOJ says it’s going to crack down as lawsuits pile up against real estate Goliaths and US officially becomes a “rent-burdened nation.”
Read more...Obama has an edifice complex! Who’d have thunk it?
Read more...Desai and Hudson debunk widely-believed, finance-and-elite-serving myths about inflation.
Read more...New lawsuits allege mega landlords are colluding to keep rents high and units vacant while also embracing surveillance tech to evict tenants.
Read more...A word from Honest Government. Please tune in.
Read more...Better late than never: Authorities are starting to use zoning as a way to reduce fossill fuel use.
Read more...Another thing: inflation. Just when you thought the construction-cost spike was abating, it hit a new record.
Read more...Michael Hudson explains how financial capitalism won the struggle with industrial capitalism and gave rentiers the upper hand.
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