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. · Shared by 463, including Amjad Masad ⠕, Randy Deutsch, Tim, Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦, Ed West, David Boaz, Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Jason Crawford, Cory Doctorow, Patrick Collison, David Wallace-Wells, Huda Idrees, Andy Sparks, tylercowen
NPR
There's a massive housing shortage across the U.S. Here's how bad it is where you live
NPR
7 min read · Jul 14th · Hundreds of cities and towns are seriously short of housing, both homes to buy and rentals, according to a new study. It's the main reason that home prices and rents are so high. · Shared by 124, including @salesforce #DF22 R.NFT R “Ray” Wang 王瑞光 #1A, Rand Fishkin
FORTUNE
We’re entering the next stage of the housing market downturn—3 things to expect heading forward
FORTUNE
4 min read · Sep 18th · The housing market downturn will spread beyond housing. · Shared by 71
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. · Shared by 174, including integrate (gentrify), Philanthropy News Digest, Tim
youtube.com
The Housing Crisis is the Everything Crisis
youtube.com
May 2nd · Dude, where's my affordable housing?CHAPTERS: 0:00 Introduction2:28 The Problem5:06 Solving Poverty7:34 Solving Homelessness8:27 Helping the Environment11:06... · Shared by 94, including Nir Eyal
The Baffler
Decommodify This!
The Baffler
7 min read · Aug 31st · The end game of the housing movement should not be affordable housing but true rent abolition—housing as non-commodity. · Shared by 107
dwell
Is There a Way Out of Hawaii’s Housing Crisis?
dwell
~12 min read · Jul 17th · The Aloha State is drowning in a flood of the same factors creating a housing crisis all over America. It will either become a model for solutions or a cautionary tale. · Shared by 67
CNBC
Confused about the housing market? Here's what's happening now
CNBC
4 min read · Sep 9th · From rising rates to low inventories, here's what you need to know about the topsy-turvy U.S. housing market. · Shared by 65
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. · Shared by 162, including Barry Ritholtz, Alexandra Lange, Vishal Gulati (I back scientists), Jesse Baer 🔥, David Austin Walsh, Emily Badger, Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦, Jeff Richards, Ben Casselman, Ramit Sethi
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FORTUNE
We’re entering the next stage of the housing market downturn—3 things to expect heading forward
FORTUNE
4 min read · Sep 18th · The housing market downturn will spread beyond housing. · Shared by 71
The Baffler
Decommodify This!
The Baffler
7 min read · Aug 31st · The end game of the housing movement should not be affordable housing but true rent abolition—housing as non-commodity. · Shared by 107
CNBC
Confused about the housing market? Here's what's happening now
CNBC
4 min read · Sep 9th · From rising rates to low inventories, here's what you need to know about the topsy-turvy U.S. housing market. · Shared by 65
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Investing in Flow | Andreessen Horowitz
a16z
5 min read · Aug 15th · Our nation has a housing crisis. The demographic trends driving America’s housing market are impossible to ignore: our country is creating households faster than we’re building houses. Structural… · Shared by 126, including Jack Raines, Ian M Calvert, Vishal Gulati (I back scientists), Nathan Tankus, Allison Arieff, Nathan Baschez 📧, Robin Wigglesworth, Marc Andreessen, Eghosa Omoigui, Tara Imani, AIA NCIDQ ASID, cdixon.eth, benahorowitz.eth, Marvin “Polymath but really Just Generalist” Liao, Mitch Kapor, Monique Woodard, Krista Seiden, علي
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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. · Shared by 519, including John Tasioulas, César Sepúlveda, l. ones, 🟣 Antonio Vieira Santos #FutureOfWork #InnoTrans2, Ben Jones, Carla Gentry, Jose Luis Calvo, Marcus Borba, 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,… · Shared by 287, 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 131, 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. · Shared by 63, including Brooks Rainwater, John Schwartz, Damon Young, Emily Badger, Paul Kedrosky, Stuart A. Thompson, Catherine Rampell
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… · Shared by 63, including Shawn Venasse
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Investing in Flow | Andreessen Horowitz
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5 min read · Aug 15th · Our nation has a housing crisis. The demographic trends driving America’s housing market are impossible to ignore: our country is creating households faster than we’re building houses. Structural… · Shared by 126, including Jack Raines, Ian M Calvert, Vishal Gulati (I back scientists), Nathan Tankus, Allison Arieff, Nathan Baschez 📧, Robin Wigglesworth, Marc Andreessen, Eghosa Omoigui, Tara Imani, AIA NCIDQ ASID, cdixon.eth, benahorowitz.eth, Marvin “Polymath but really Just Generalist” Liao, Mitch Kapor, Monique Woodard, Krista Seiden, علي
hellgatenyc.com
One Weird Trick to Forget About the Housing Crisis
hellgatenyc.com
8 min read · Jul 30th · The solutions to the housing crisis are not as sexy as the problem, and the problem is the overwhelming power and weight of wealth. The problem is our desire for the problem: to see it, to touch it,… · Shared by 72
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? · 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 · From 2020 · One America is living in a housing boom. The other needs support from the government or family for an affordable place to live. · Shared by 70, including Azeem Azhar, Neil Lewis, Jr., PhD, Jeff Jarvis, Esther Schindler, Matthias Lampe
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