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The largest corporate landlords in the United States are surgically evicting Los Angeles' Black tenants.
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Spirangelos
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Trap economist and landlordology scholar @StrikeDebt @SAJE_ShiftPower @ChallengeIneq @antievictionmap
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Haidt said nothing when his colleagues at NYU faced career cancellation for protecting their students’ right to protest or shielding kids from riot cops. he’s not on the forefront of anything except masturbatory centrist conferences where these guys talk about how brave they are
Benjamin Ryan@benryanwriter
NYU professor @JonHaidt, who has stood at the forefront of the movement to challenge academia’s culture of suppressing the free exchange of ideas, is facing a campaign to cancel his graduation address. nytimes.com/2026/05/13/us/…
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Speaking as someone who listened to every single episode of his podcast, this is one of the worst takes yet, totally devoid of any actual engagement with the specifics of the soviet system of planning he’s nominally criticizing.
Jacobin@jacobin
Even supercomputers won’t solve the problems inherent to central planning. But that doesn’t mean we don’t need to replace capitalism with something better: jacobin.com/2026/05/centra…
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@brian_callaci Sumerian planning regime was already strangling builders
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Horseshoe theory of Marxists who keep locating the origins of capitalism further and further in the past; mainstream economic historians who don't think there is a pre-capitalism
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@AlisonB916 praising Tejón Ranch & the Irvine Company lol, they yearn for suburban central planning done by the Bluth family instead of the state
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Another Mike Davis W, the US can only talk about California in apocalyptic terms.
Ted Alcorn@TedAlcorn
CALIFORNIA — There's a theme here. 🔥
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I gotta say, Abundance giving up on anti-sprawl, anti-greenfield, pro-infill policy is the kind of race-to-the-bottom politics its critics warned about like a decade ago. it's the one thing I liked about them, incidentally
Jerque Cousteau@neo_antiquarian
There is nightmare blunt rotation and then there is the nightmare blunt rotation’s nightmare. Kati Porter & Ezra Klein co-signing Network States is the inception level, turducken, horror dream within a dream conversation I never needed to know existed.
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Homevoter hypothesis is a post facto justification for behavior rooted in irrational discrimination with no real empirical basis. Planning will remain an unbearably white discipline until it dispenses with both Fischel and Tiebout.
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Landlords should support robust code enforcement because the person hurt most by a milker after tenants is the next buyer. Neglecting a building is profitable for the milker at the expense of literally everyone else, including conscientious landlords who fave unfair competition.
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Further I think if you find the attempt made to humanize homeless people through the term “unhoused neighbors” alienating because it’s a neologism you’re Evil and need to be sent back to kindergarten to learn about kindness.
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Carceral urbanism is not popular! People like Adams and Lurie win by lying about their positions.
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This ad is just fine actually because unlike the ranks of liberal journalism, the LA electorate is not full of crypto republicans who hate unions and love cops.
Matthew Zeitlin@MattZeitlin
this is actually a good exercise: how would you present your own positions in a maximally unappealing way?
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The would-be taxpayers are explicitly stating that the pied-a terre-tax is an optimal tax as that term is used in the economics of optimal taxation.
alex bronzini-vender@alexbronzini
“Can I afford the tax? Yes. Will it deter me? No. But I think it’s shameful,” he said. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/ac…
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'not identity, class' people relying on identitarian understandings of class. many such cases. sad!
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Guys guys @TheEconomist has figured out how to solve the housing affordability problem! Turns out we just need to change our zoning laws. Per a Goldman Sach’s study—presumably done of the behest of its institutional investor clients—“two-thirds of the national housing shortfall would disappear” if we relaxed the zoning rules! (Never mind what the San Francisco Fed paper said about the irrelevance of housing constraints.) Abundance Grifters gonna grift.
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Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts is set to close. But this isn't just about enrollment—it's about institutional debt and who owes what to whom.
We wrote about the closure here—and why creditors' being made whole punishes students/faculty/staff.
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I looked at both these landlords, which have heavily overlapping strategies and geographies, and both of which have disproportionately evicted Black tenants in Los Angeles.
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Two of the largest landlords in the county are poised to merge, together they would own >150K rentals. As REITs these wall street landlords are exempt from automatic merger review (just as they are from corporate taxes). I think regulators should take a look at this anyway.
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