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Invisible Crisis

Michael Friedrich

April 03, 2025

We are vastly undercounting the country’s homeless population.

Disaster of the House

Oksana Mironova

May 14, 2024

Democrats have done nothing to disentangle housing policy from deregulation

Pity the Landlord

Charlie Dulik

October 02, 2023

The rise of the “mom-and-pop” landlord.

Fighting Back in Flatbush

Jess McAllen

September 21, 2023

Taking on a notorious landlord in Brooklyn’s Flatbush neighborhood.

Dream Houses

Kevin Rogan

November 28, 2022

Utopian schemes to “solve” the housing crisis.

The Florida Projects

Saritha Ramakrishna

October 26, 2021

There’s no shortage of places to call home, if only for a little while, in Florida’s Osceola County—plenty of sumptuous McMansions await vacationers on secular pilgrimage to the Magic Kingdom, and Jimmy Buffett-themed timeshares enable visitors to buy into their own ...

Where Does It End?

Samuel Stein

June 28, 2021

135 questions for those who shape and (sometimes) occupy New York City’s extreme upper skyline.

Between a Rock and a God Place

Theo Whitcomb

May 05, 2021

Rural Oregon’s war on the homeless.

The Vanishing

Ross Barkan

October 03, 2019

If a person can’t survive by the acid terms of the market, they don’t deserve to survive at all.

Progressive Posturing

Robin Kaiser-Schatzlein

June 06, 2019

Bill de Blasio’s failures on affordable housing are a parable and a warning.

Where There’s Smoke

Lia Russell

November 20, 2018

In California, deadly wildfires are at the center of several different crises.

Fresh Hell

The Baffler

April 20, 2018

“Gay Houseboys and those who hire them”