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What Does Poverty Feel Like?

Jun 20, 2018
The Great Recession is officially over, but tell that to the increasing numbers of poor families scrabbling to hang on in a world that refuses to see or hear them.
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So You Want to Ditch Your Landlord

Dec 10, 2015
“Real estate as a store of private wealth is the rotten tree that sprouts [the] diseased branches” of homelessness, unaffordable urban real estate, gentrification and dangerous housing bubbles, writes Jesse A. Meyerson at The Nation. “[T]he solution is to quit pruning twigs and chop the sucker down.”