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Zoning as Destiny: How Regulation Shapes American Cities

America's housing crisis, racial segregation, and climate challenges share a common origin: zoning laws written a century ago to exclude and divide.

Nov 21, 202514 min

governance

The Landlord Leviathan: REITs, Private Equity, and the Price of Shelter

The landlord is no longer the woman downstairs with keys—it is a spreadsheet that lives in Delaware and dreams in waterfalls. When REITs and private equity own the marginal stock, rent becomes the solution to a covenant, not a neighborly bargain. A systems anatomy of financialized housing.

Aug 9, 202528 min