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.
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Now Airbnb is Wrecking Mountain Towns, Too
Short-term rentals are affecting the character of places like Bozeman, Boise, and Crested Butte.
Posted inBooks, First Chapters, Nonfiction, Story
Yonkers, Housing Desegregation and the Youngest Mayor in America
The true story behind the HBO miniseries “Show Me a Hero.”
Posted inNonfiction, Reading List
A Three-Part Series on the Plight of the Black Middle Class in America
In January The Washington Post published a powerful three-part series looking at the plight of the black middle class in America. The series focuses on Maryland’s Prince George’s County—the most affluent majority-black county in America, as well as one of the counties hit hardest by the foreclosure crisis. At the heart of the series is a singular, vexing question: “Why don’t […]
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What Street Suffixes Can Tell Us About Home Value and Neighborhood Size
Next we looked at street suffixes — the “roads,” “drives” and “boulevards” — and found that, for instance, homes on “Washington Street” are usually different from homes on “Washington Court.” For one thing, a house on Washington Street is probably older. Different street suffixes were popular at different moments. “Streets” and “avenues” were stylish in […]
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Dispossessed: Haunted Houses of the Great Recession
In The Paris Review Daily, Colin Dickey searches for a house among foreclosed properties, and finds uncanny forces at work.
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What It’s Like for Renters in America: A Reading List
These are three stories of hellish renting experiences in major American cities.