9 Best Articles in 2022
Works in Progress
The housing theory of everything
Works in Progress
20+ min read · 2021-09-14 · Western housing shortages do not just prevent many from ever affording their own home. They also drive inequality, climate change, low productivity growth, obesity, and even falling fertility rates.
Reader View · Shared by 451, including Amjad Masad ⠕, Randy Deutsch, Tim, Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦, Jason Crawford, David Boaz, Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Andy Sparks, Cory Doctorow, Patrick Collison, David Wallace-Wells, Ed West, tylercowen
Mother Jones
Are we even talking about the same “housing crisis”?
Mother Jones
3 min read · Feb 7th · There's a know-it-when-you-see-it quality to the term. Maybe that's a problem.
Reader View · Shared by 173, including yimbofication fetish, PhilanTopic, Tim
MIT Technology Review
The coming war on the hidden algorithms that trap people in poverty
MIT Technology Review
9 min read · 2020-12-04 · A growing group of lawyers are uncovering, navigating, and fighting the automated systems that deny the poor from housing, jobs, and basic services.
Reader View · Shared by 518, including John Tasioulas, César Sepúlveda, l. ones, 🟣 Antonio Vieira Santos #FutureOfWork, Ben Jones, Carla Gentry, Jose Luis Calvo, Marcus Borba @ #CollisionConf #SiemensAtCollision, Gabriele, Tim, niazakhan, Mark Kaigwa, James Gingerich, @Expeflow #WorkEasier #RPA, Terence Mills, Marc R Gagné MAPP 🍁, John Koetsier, Memen Isimo, Gerd Leonhard, Shanna Peeples she/her 🏳️🌈, Nige Willson
ProPublica
When Private Equity Becomes Your Landlord
ProPublica
20+ min read · Feb 7th · Amid a national housing crisis, giant private equity firms have been buying up apartment buildings en masse to squeeze them for profit, with the help of government-backed Freddie Mac. Meanwhile,…
Reader View · Shared by 285, including Dan Gillmor, Howard Getson, Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis, Cory Doctorow, Matt Zoller Seitz, Steve Faktor, David Madden
Axios
Canada bans foreign home buyers for two years
Axios
1 min read · Apr 19th · Canada's housing market is one of the world's hottest, with prices jumping by more than 20% in 2021.
Shared by 129, including Tim, LARRY ELKAN, Howard Getson
The New York Times
The Extraordinary Wealth Created by the Pandemic Housing Market
The New York Times
8 min read · May 1st · Rarely have so many Americans gained so much equity in so little time, but it’s also inseparable from the housing affordability crisis.
Reader View · Shared by 63, including Brooks Rainwater, John Schwartz, Damon Young, Emily Badger, Paul Kedrosky, Stuart A. Thompson, Catherine Rampell
Guardian politics
Eat the rich! Why millennials and generation Z have turned their backs on capitalism
Guardian politics
9 min read · 2021-09-20 · Nearly eight out of 10 of young Britons blame capitalism for the housing crisis and two-thirds want to live under a socialist economic system. How did that happen?
Reader View · Shared by 244, including Marsha Collier, Grzegorz Wapiński, Merkstatt, Prof. Devi Sridhar, Tim, Gerd Leonhard, Jansnet
NPR's Planet Money
Zoom Towns And The New Housing Market For The 2 Americas
NPR's Planet Money
4 min read · 2020-09-08 · One America is living in a housing boom. The other needs support from the government or family for an affordable place to live.
Reader View · Shared by 70, including Azeem Azhar, Neil Lewis, Jr., PhD, Jeff Jarvis, Esther Schindler, Matthias Lampe
The New York Times
The Future of Offices When Workers Have a Choice
The New York Times
5 min read · 2021-01-04 · Some work spaces in central employment districts may become housing, and some housing in residential areas may become work spaces.
Reader View · Shared by 194, including Luminous Kaleidoscope, Meghan M. Biro ⚡️, Chris Schultz ✌️, Katja Evertz, Rachel Miller | #InfluencerMarketing, Johannes Dornisch, venkat - bala, niazakhan, Greater Greater Washington, Theodora (Theo) Lau - 劉䂀曼 🌻, luis antónio santos, WeWork
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The New York Times
The Extraordinary Wealth Created by the Pandemic Housing Market
The New York Times
8 min read · May 1st · Rarely have so many Americans gained so much equity in so little time, but it’s also inseparable from the housing affordability crisis.
Reader View · Shared by 63, including Brooks Rainwater, John Schwartz, Damon Young, Emily Badger, Paul Kedrosky, Stuart A. Thompson, Catherine Rampell
The Globe and Mail
How far do housing prices need to fall before the Bank of Canada stops raising interest rates?
The Globe and Mail
4 min read · Jun 17th · The recent rhetoric from policy makers in this country suggests that housing prices could become collateral damage in the battle against persistently rising prices
Reader View · Shared by 64
The New York Times
Twilight of the NIMBY
The New York Times
~17 min read · Jun 5th · Suburban homeowners like Susan Kirsch are often blamed for worsening the nation’s housing crisis. That doesn’t mean she’s giving up her two-decade fight against 20 condos.
Reader View · Shared by 71, including Barry Ritholtz, David 2022-RELATED PUN Walsh, Emily Badger, Alexandra Lange, Vishal Gulati (I back scientists), Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦, Jeff Richards, Ben Casselman, Ramit Sethi
Marginal Revolution
Why We Can’t House the Homeless
Marginal Revolution
1 min read · May 24th · During the pandemic, New York State allocated $100 million to turn struggling New York City hotels into low-cost housing. What could be simpler? Hotels are already used to house people so converting a…
Reader View · Shared by 162, including Alex Tabarrok, Nir Eyal, Brendan Nyhan
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The Economist
The horrible housing blunder - Home ownership is the West’s biggest economic-policy mistake
The Economist
4 min read · From 2020 · Jan 16th 2020ECONOMIES CAN suffer both sudden crashes and chronic diseases. Housing markets in the rich world have caused both types of problem. A trillion dollars of dud mortgages blew up the…
Shared by 61, including Gutly Myrat, Inês Silva, Barry Ritholtz, Strong Towns, Stig Ørskov, Michelle Tandler, Vishal Gulati (I back scientists), Azeem Azhar, Patrick Collison
Fast Company
Exclusive: Airbnb will start designing houses in 2019
Fast Company
4 min read · From 2018 · Airbnb wants to get into the housing business in a big way.
Reader View · Shared by 131, including Raphael Bratschi, Romain Lalanne, hiten.eth, Patrick Sanwikarja, Jeremiah Owyang | jowyang.eth, jowyang.sol, Maja Grolimund-Kurth, Simone Corsi 💻🚀, Dominik Grolimund, Jacob Jarnvall, Sachin Rekhi, Shawn Venasse, Joe Lencioni, Thomas Pleil, Strong Towns
Failed Architecture
A Cage by Another Name
Failed Architecture
8 min read · Apr 21st · Under the guise of housing, LA’s tiny home villages serve to contain and banish unhoused people.
Reader View · Shared by 123, including Alexandra Lange
The Globe and Mail
How far do housing prices need to fall before the Bank of Canada stops raising interest rates?
The Globe and Mail
4 min read · Jun 17th · The recent rhetoric from policy makers in this country suggests that housing prices could become collateral damage in the battle against persistently rising prices
Reader View · Shared by 64
The New York Times
How Decades of Racist Housing Policy Left Neighborhoods Sweltering
The New York Times
~14 min read · 2020-08-24 · Redlining helped reshape the urban landscape of U.S. cities. It also left communities of color far more vulnerable to rising heat.
Reader View · Shared by 180, including Theodora (Theo) Lau - 劉䂀曼 🌻, John Keefe, Hannah Fairfield, Brooks Rainwater, AIA National, Hiroko Tabuchi, Andrew Revkin 🌎 ✍🏼 🪕 ☮️, Kelsey Keith, Nadja Popovich, Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis, Ida Bae Wells, Josh Apte, Noah Toly, Niko Kommenda, Alice Wong 王美華, Max Fisher, Prof. Katharine Hayhoe, Dr. Kim Cobb, John Schwartz, David Madden
The New York Times
Twilight of the NIMBY
The New York Times
~17 min read · Jun 5th · Suburban homeowners like Susan Kirsch are often blamed for worsening the nation’s housing crisis. That doesn’t mean she’s giving up her two-decade fight against 20 condos.
Reader View · Shared by 71, including Barry Ritholtz, David 2022-RELATED PUN Walsh, Emily Badger, Alexandra Lange, Vishal Gulati (I back scientists), Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦, Jeff Richards, Ben Casselman, Ramit Sethi
HuffPost
Progressive Boomers Are Making It Impossible For Cities To Fix The Housing Crisis
HuffPost
10 min read · From 2019 · Residents of wealthy neighborhoods are taking extreme measures to block much-needed housing and transportation projects.
Reader View · Shared by 34, including Rick Powell, Greater Greater Washington
Visual Capitalist
Ranked: These Are 10 of the World’s Least Affordable Housing Markets
Visual Capitalist
8 min read · Jun 7th · For the 12th year in a row, Hong Kong is the world’s least affordable housing market, according to Demographia’s ranking of 92 cities in select countries Sydney, Australia moves up one spot from last…
Reader View · Shared by 34
Vox
America’s racist housing rules really can be fixed
Vox
~15 min read · 2021-02-17 · More than 50 years after passage of the Fair Housing Act, it’s time to sue the suburbs.
Reader View · Shared by 50
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