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Housing Boom

Business

Waiting for Prosperity

How the real estate boom left Black neighborhoods behind.

Vanessa Gregory New York Times Magazine Nov 2021 30min Permalink

Business

The Housing Vultures

How the government enabled the one percent to capitalize on the housing crisis.

Francesca Mari The New York Review of Books May 2020 20min Permalink

Best Article

Gimme Shelter

A year living in a shack in Oakland.

Wes Enzinna Harpers Nov 2019 25min Permalink

Politics

'Everyone Wants to Find a Villain'

What happened when Pete Buttigieg tore down houses in Black and Latino South Bend.

Henry J. Gomez Buzzfeed Apr 2019 30min Permalink

Business

The American Nightmare

More than 50 foreclosure stories have one word in common: Nightmare.

Desiree Stennett, Lisa Rowan The Penny Hoarder Aug 2018 30min Permalink

Business Politics

The Ponzi State

“Florida, in some ways, resembles a modern Ponzi scheme. Everything is fine for me if a thousand newcomers come tomorrow. The problem is…no one knew what would happen if they stopped coming.”

George Packer New Yorker Feb 2009 40min Permalink

Politics

Where Will We Live?

What happens when we run out of houses.

James Meek London Review of Books Jan 2014 50min Permalink

Crime

The King of Home Equity Fraud

How a Nigerian-American conned upwards of $40 million from banks during the housing boom using publicly available information from the internet, persuasive storytelling, and prepaid cellphones, and then ditched his FBI tail in a casino.

Luke O'Brien Fortune Jan 2011 15min Permalink