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Large corporate landlords like real estate investment trusts (REITs) benefit enormously from the shortage of housing — and they know it.

To Solve the Housing Crisis, We Have to Increase the Housing Supply

jacobin.com

Ten friends decide to play a game of musical chairs and arrange ten chairs in a circle. A leader begins the game by turning on the music, and everyone begins to walk in a circle inside the chairs. The leader removes one chair, stops the music, and the ten friends scramble to find a spot to sit leaving one person without a chair. The loser, Mike, was on crutches after spraining his ankle. Given his condition, he was unable to move quickly to find a chair during the scramble that ensued.

Homelessness Is a Housing Problem

Gregg Colburn and Clayton Page Aldern

No one tracks the ideas that don’t happen. To watch as these dreams get pared down, hacked away. A beautiful ice sculpture and they end up with an ice cube. An ice cube in a tray of parking.”

Paved Paradise

Henry Grabar

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