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Apartment rents fall as new supply hits market
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There’s no such thing as affordable housing
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Death of Korea's 'apartment king' leaves 100s in property purgatory
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JPMorgan to spend $1B on rental homes in the US to become a megalandlord
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The cost of being poor: Why it costs so much to be poor in America
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More than 60k rent-stabilized apartments are now vacant
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Investors bought a quarter of US homes sold last year
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Eviction notice downloads soar after federal moratorium ends
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Homelessness rises faster where rent exceeds a third of income (2018)
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The welfare effects of eviction policies
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Rent control isn’t working in Sweden
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Record rise in U.S. rents
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US states brace for ‘avalanche’ of evictions as federal moratorium ends
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Public-ownership rental as a third option to renting or owning a house
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U.S. rent has increased 175% faster than household income over past 20 years
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Rents for the rich are going down, rents for the poor are going up. Why?
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What happens when investment firms acquire trailer parks
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Fleeing New Yorkers resulted in an estimated $34B in lost income – study
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New York City thinks up to half of restaurants will close permanently [pdf]
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Almost 90 percent of NYC bars and restaurants couldn’t pay August rent
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San Francisco Tenants Break Leases at Alarming Rates
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Airbnb Racks Up Hundreds of Millions in Losses Due to Coronavirus
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Rent control will make housing shortages worse?
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Airbnb likely removed 31,000 homes from Canada’s rental market, study finds
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Why Rent Control Doesn't Work
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If You Can’t Afford the Rent, It’s My Problem, Too
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The Homeless Crisis Is Getting Worse in America’s Richest Cities
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High-end house rents in Vancouver plunge up to 20% as inventory spikes: experts
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Stanford paper says rent control is driving up cost of housing in San Francisco
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Rising Rents Are Pushing More Tenants Past the Breaking Point
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If You’ve Never Lived in Poverty, Don’t Tell Poor People What They Should Do
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“Evicted”, an ethnographic study of tenants in low-income housing (2016)
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Rents are plunging in the most expensive U.S. markets
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What if the problem of poverty is that it’s profitable to other people?
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The Rise of Renting in the U.S
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Why Rent Is So High and Pay So Low
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US homelessness up 12% from 2022, hits highest level since 2007
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Airbnb's Devastating Effect on Canadian Housing
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