New Orleans In a piece about climate change, one author quoted a commonplace statement that the corporate business model in a capitalist economy puts no inherent value on public resources like land, air, and water, so that the costs are for acquisition, extraction, marketing, and delivery without concern for the after affects like global …
Category: Citizen Wealth
Houses aren’t Homes for the Flippers
New Orleans No matter how much sugar they put in your coffee, be very prepared to be worried about an additional trend in corporate housing speculation: flipping is back, bad and hard! In a contradictory, “what me worry,” “how can this be bad” story in the Wall Street Journal the reporter noted that the …
Inclusionary Zoning Lite and Little
New Orleans Catching up on back papers I found both the interesting and the disappointing. Let’s start by keeping it positive and look at something called RentCheck, which is an application designed for tenants, but gaining some support by landlords, finding it useful enough that they have downloaded it in 40 US states and seven …