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• SOURCE: TomDispatch
  3/16/2023
  

  Don't Bother Looking for a Place to Rent in DC

  by Rebecca Gordon

  New congressman Maxwell Frost's struggles to find an apartment in the capital echoes the "Bourgeois Blues" Leadbelly sang in 1937. What does it say about democracy if representatives of the people can't live in Washington? 

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• SOURCE: Law and Political Economy Project
  2/20/2023
  

  When the Public University is a Corporate Landlord

  by Charmaine Chua, Desiree Fields and David Stein

  During negotiations with graduate student workers, UCLA administrators claimed that increasing stipends would effectively subsidize local landlords through higher rents and squeeze the poor in the Los Angeles housing market. The reality is that the university is an investor in a huge real estate trust that is hiking rents itself. 

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• SOURCE: The New Republic
  10/19/2022
  

  LA Council Racism Shows Ethnic Politics Covers for War by Landlords on Renters

  The recorded remarks in a council meeting show that while Angelenos have been encouraged to vote along ethnic lines, their representatives have been more intersted in catering to politically powerful landlords and developers. 

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• SOURCE: The Baffler
  5/4/2022
  

  The Rent is Too Damn High(ly Central to Modern Economies)

  by Trevor Jackson

  Historian Trevor Jackson reviews Brett Christophers's book on rent, which places the power of the rentier class at the center of the inequality and dysfunction of modern capital and brings Marx's original investigations into the 21st century.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  3/18/2020
  

  ‘I Don’t Know How I’m Going to Pay Rent Next Month’

  As more cafes, restaurants and hotels shut down, millions of workers will need help to survive.