https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/CN10162019.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans If you ever had to sell or buy a house or even just look around in a neighborhood to try and sort out sales’ pitches from real values, you’ve often dealt with real estate agents in their bizarre and curious world. They speak of their …
Tag: housing
One Woman Against AirBnb is a Hollow Victory in New Orleans
New Orleans I wanted to share what I hoped was a simple story of one woman’s persistence prevailing over a giant, rogue company and the ineffectual enforcement by a city of its regulations governing the company. That story had as its activist, community hero a woman named Ada Phleger, a young attorney in the Federal …
Computerized House Flippers and Conflicting Interests
New Orleans It was bad enough when Wall Street sharpies like Blackstone started buying tranches of foreclosed houses in the suburbs to paint, rent, and then cash out. Now, algorithms are being deployed for house flippers. What could go right or wrong with this picture? A story in the Wall Street Journal claimed that …