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Cory Doctorow
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Jun 6, 2021

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The Rent’s Too Damned High

A human right, commodified and rendered zero-sum.

“Slums. Washington, D.C.” Carl Mydans, 1935, Farm Security Administration — Office of War Information Photograph Collection (Library of Congress) https://www.loc.gov/item/2017758811/

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…

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Writer, blogger, activist. Blog: https://pluralistic.net; Mailing list: https://pluralistic.net/plura-list; Twitter: https://twitter.com/doctorow

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