New York's luxury real-estate market is crashing https://boingboing.net/2018/10/10/sic-semper-skyscraper.html #safedepositboxesinthesky #super-primecollapse #weaponizedshelter #oligarchsrus #newyorkcity #urbantheory #newyork #Post

Los Angeles's homelessness epidemic has created a typhus epidemic https://boingboing.net/2018/10/06/private-choice-public-cons.html #sharedmicrobialdestiny #epidemiologyisdestiny #weaponizedshelter #homelessness #california #losangeles #Post

UC Santa Cruz asks professors to rent their spare rooms to students who couldn't get housing guarantees https://boingboing.net/2018/09/08/homeless-students.html #demographicsaredestiny #UniversityofCalifornia #weaponizedshelter #siliconvalley #assetbubbles #sanfrancisco #education #SantaCruz #Post

New Zealand bans most offshore residential real-estate ownership https://boingboing.net/2018/08/15/hobbiton-for-hobbits.html #OverseasInvestmentAmendmentBill #weaponizedshelter #bubblenomics #speculation #newzealand #peterthiel #oceania #china #Post #law

The UK's largest estate agency is on the verge of bankruptcy https://boingboing.net/2018/08/05/countrywide.html #burstingbubblebellwether #weaponizedshelter #bubblenomics #economics #Business #finance #brexit #london #ukpoli #Post #uk

America's big cities are increasingly home to people living in their cars https://boingboing.net/2018/08/05/build-housing-2.html #latestagecapitalism #weaponizedshelter #guillotinewatch #urbantheory #automotive #inequality #usausausa #Post

California home-buyers are increasingly reliant on parental gifts to afford their down-payments https://boingboing.net/2018/08/01/multigenerational-inequal.html #therentistoodamnedhigh #latestagecapitalism #weaponizedshelter #guillotinewatch #bubblenomics #newfeudalism #california #inequality #losangeles #redlining #Business #piketty #Post #race

Wall Street landlords are slumlords https://boingboing.net/2018/07/30/single-family-rental-securitie.html #single-familyrentalsecurities #therentistoodamnedhigh #financialengineering #latestagecapitalism #weaponizedshelter #guillotinewatch #invitationhomes #privateequity #blackstone #Post

London luxury housing market bubble bursts: 39% of sales last quarter were to deep discount wholesalers making bulk buys https://boingboing.net/2018/07/19/sell-sell-sell.html #weaponizedshelter #guillotinewatch #panicsell-off #bubblenomics #realestate #property #brexit #london #Post #uk

Restaurant servers can't afford San Francisco rents so restaurants are going self-serve https://boingboing.net/2018/06/27/souvla-for-everything.html #therentistoodamnedhigh #weaponizedshelter #sanfrancisco #costdisease #restaurants #inequality #Business #classwar #nimbyism #Post

We know how to fix homelessness, we just won't do it https://boingboing.net/2018/06/21/prop-13.html #latestagecapitalism #weaponizedshelter #ethniccleansing #housingfirst #urbantheory #california #inequality #Business #nimbyism #amazon #Post #debt #race

The Rent's Too Damned High: 15,000 words on the ways real-estate speculation and inequality have killed NYC https://boingboing.net/2018/06/19/cvs-citi-chase-walgreens.html #weaponizedshelter #guillotinewatch #landbanking #newyorkcity #urbantheory #inequality #Post

GDP vs human thriving: a "healthy" economy means debt-haunted people, desperately searching for housing https://boingboing.net/2018/06/15/gatsby-with-guillotines.html #thosebillionairesthough #weaponizedshelter #guillotinewatch #privateequity #studentdebt #inequality #education #usausausa #classwar #trumpism #graeber #piketty #labor #Post #debt

Full time minimum wage workers can't afford the rent on a 2-bedroom apartment anywhere in the USA https://boingboing.net/2018/06/14/roof-over-your-head.html #maslowvsprivateequity #latestagecapitalism #weaponizedshelter #guillotinewatch #classwar #Post

New York surpasses Brexit London as the world's second-hottest luxury property market https://boingboing.net/2018/05/17/assets-not-homes.html #rootlessglobalelites #weaponizedshelter #guillotinewatch #moneylaundering #newyorkcity #classwar #hongkong #brexit #london #Post

US housing prices skyrocket for homeowners and renters alike https://boingboing.net/2018/05/05/inequality-starts-at-home.html #demographicsaredestiny #latestagecapitalism #weaponizedshelter #sharedmisery #urbantheory #classwar #Post

Wisconsin clears the way for Foxconn by bulldozing working peoples' homes and paying them pennies on the dollar https://boingboing.net/2018/04/12/open-for-business.html #wedogetfooledagain #weaponizedshelter #eminentdomain #scottwalker #wisconsin #Business #trumpism #foxconn #Ripoffs #Post

Eviction Lab: a comprehensive database of every eviction proceeding in America for the past 16 years https://boingboing.net/2018/04/11/revenge-of-2008.html #euthanizerentiers #weaponizedshelter #guillotinewatch #housingcrisis #privateequity #urbantheory #inequality #evictions #Post #data #law

To solve America's housing crisis, build public housing https://boingboing.net/2018/04/06/around-the-houses.html #findyourselfacitytolivein #weaponizedshelter #urbantheory #classwar #housing #uspoli #Post

The Manhattan property bubble is bursting https://boingboing.net/2018/04/03/unsafe-deposit-boxes-in-the-sk.html #firstwetakemanhattan #weaponizedshelter #eschatologywatch #bubblenomics #Business #property #newyork #trump #Post