The Rent’s Too Damned High
A human right, commodified and rendered zero-sum.
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8 min readJun 6, 2021
The pandemic housing bubble has multiple, complex causes. Among them:
- A housing shortage resulting from a decade of anemic construction following the Great Financial Crisis and a wave of homebuilder bankruptcies;
- Supply-chain shocks created by the pandemic, which was especially hard…
