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Zoning as Destiny: How Regulation Shapes American Cities
America's housing crisis, racial segregation, and climate challenges share a common origin: zoning laws written a century ago to exclude and divide.
The Landlord Leviathan: REITs, Private Equity, and the Price of Shelter
The landlord is no longer the woman downstairs with keys—it is a spreadsheet that lives in Delaware and dreams in waterfalls. When REITs and private equity own the marginal stock, rent becomes the solution to a covenant, not a neighborly bargain. A systems anatomy of financialized housing.
The Missing Middle: Housing Between Sprawl and Towers
Duplexes, triplexes, courtyard apartments — the "missing middle" is the gentle density that sustained American neighborhoods for a century. Zoning, finance, and politics narrowed the housing palette; restoring it is a design and equity imperative.