Housing
Cities and Free Markets: The Manufactured American Dream
For some reason or another people seem to associate cities with socialism and suburbs with the capitalist American dream. The notion that the strong middle class created American suburbia has been engraved in our minds for all of recent American history. Contrary to popular belief however, it wasn’t always like this. In fact, as far [...]
REO Rental Properties and What to Expect
When the Obama administration announced the REO to rental program in the beginning of February there was finally a sense of large scale action on the abysmal housing situation in America. Real-estate-owned (REO) properties, held by such federal entities as Fannie Mae, Freddy Mac and the Federal Housing Administration, will be converted into rental properties [...]
(Slum)Lord of the Inner-Ring
Across the street is a partially run down home, with the front screen door off its hinges, peeling paint all around the house, and a partially collapsed garage door. This is the site you see outside your front window every day. What you also see are the kids that leave for school every morning from [...]
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