Matthew Gault attends the 21st Annual Mr. Landlord.com National Landlord Convention, a conference in St. Louis where landlords gather, commiserate, and pitch and sell tips and tricks to each other. If you’ve ever wondered what 200 landlords come together to talk about, Gault’s insider’s look paints an interesting picture. There was something deeply American about […]
housing
Posted inEditor's Pick
A Cage by Another Name
“Under the guise of housing, LA’s tiny home villages serve to contain and banish unhoused people.”
Posted inEditor's Pick
The Eco–Yogi Slumlords of Brooklyn
“They built an empire of yoga studios and homes with ‘living walls.’ Now they’re pandemic villains.”
Posted inHighlight, Nonfiction
Downsizing in the Shadow of Disaster
When housing markets price people out of safety, they cram into disasters waiting to happen.
Posted inHighlight, Nonfiction
The Living Nightmare of Homeownership
The manmade dream of owning a home wasn’t built on a solid foundation.
Posted inCrime, Current Events, Highlight, Quotes
Redlining in the Lap Lane
An incident of police brutality in Texas highlights the ties between private pools, homeowners’ associations, and racist housing policies.
Posted inNonfiction, Quotes
The Urban Crisis of Affluence
An investment property is not a home. Neither are cities where most people can’t afford to live.
Posted inBusiness, Nonfiction, Quotes
Looking Back On the Last Housing Bubble From the Precipice of the Next One
A decade later, some homeowners still haven’t recovered from the mortgage crisis of 2008.
Posted inArts & Culture
The Downwardly Mobile Generation
How job insecurity, student debt, health care, zoning and the housing market have compounded over decades to create a life few millennials can afford.
Posted inCurrent Events, Nonfiction, Uncategorized
California’s Housing Crisis Is About Jobs, Not Houses
It’s not the pace of housing construction. It’s that the world’s most successful companies are gathered in a small number of cities.