Shelterforce

Why should owners of buildings in illegally poor repair be able to buy more rentals? As Washington, D.C. found, it can be a difficult thing to prevent.

Are policy changes enough to address the housing problems we face?

From the macro scale to the micro scale, there are many ways in which the housing market playing field is tilted toward financial firms—and many proposals for how to start tilting it back.

There’s a reason land ownership is a matter of public record—but at the moment the records we have aren’t actually doing the job.

It’s difficult to know who owns property because corporate landlords and investors tend to structure their business as limited liability companies, or LLCs.