Probably the single biggest challenge facing American cities today is the lack of affordable housing. We are just finding out the details of why this has become such a problem. A random guy decided to
The proposed agreement between SEIU and Airbnb collapsed under withering attack from other unions and the San Francisco left. In a statement obtained by the Guardian on Thursday afternoon, SEIU said i
I have news for everyone. There are other things happening in the world than the presidential campaign. Perhaps we should pay attention to them. For instance, there is the long-term issue of racism an
Using Henry George’s critique of inequality in the first Gilded Age as a jumping off point, Elizabeth Murphy has a very interesting essay considering how the new luxury towers for billionaires i
This is pretty amazing: Guthrie’s two-year tenancy in one of Fred Trump’s buildings and his relationship with the real estate mogul of New York’s outer boroughs produced some of Guthrie’s most
With two relatively small caveats, this Monica Potts profile of the homeless of the Silicon Valley is outstanding. A majority of the homeless population in Palo Alto—93 percent—ends up sleeping ou
In Crested Butte, Colorado, the rentals have gone so out of control, in no small part thanks to AirBNB, that the people who actually work in the town are forced to live in the forest: Melanie Rees use
If there’s one program conservatives and even most liberals see as indicative of a government disaster, it’s public housing. There’s a kernel of truth there because a lot of public h