The Privatopia Papers

Fraudclosure Errors Destroying Americans’ Property Rights | The Big Picture Barry Ritholtz, author of Bailout Nation, says: "Over the p...

Occupy the Neighborhood: How Counties Can Use Land Banks and Eminent Domain | Truthout This includes some interesting recent cases where jud...

MOUNT PLEASANT, S.C. (AP) — A Mount Pleasant woman is serving 10 days in jail after failing to pay a $480 fine for having a messy yard. Th...

Cool Tools: Tiny Homes Tiny houses are the norm for most people in the world, but have been out of fashion in the US for many decades. Recen...

If you choose to post comments anonymously, there is no way I can follow your anonymous instructions to go back and do something with a prev...

Across California, there seems to be an emerging trend of homeowners associations increasingly eyeing rental restrictions in the lingering ...

Calls for US taxpayers to bear housing costs - FT.com High quality global journalism requires investment. Please share this article with oth...

Vacant condos ripe for accessible, affordable housing - chicagotribune.com Two local organizations, IFF and Access Living, are in the early ...

Occupy Las Vegas protesters target foreclosed homes in valley - News - ReviewJournal.com Occupy Wall Street is going door to door in single...

CHANNAHON — Although many who live in newer subdivisions enjoy the protections outlined in homeowners’ association covenants, residents of...

Argument provokes fatal shooting in Lapu | Sun.Star Police believe the attack on Lapaz may have stemmed from an old rift over the collection...

Obama's Consumer Watchdog Targets Mortgage, Payday Lenders - BusinessWeek Consumers may benefit from its reach whenever they take out a ...

The End Of Republican Fusionism? - The Dish | By Andrew Sullivan - The Daily Beast What we're seeing, I think, is Romney as the last, dy...

2012 housing outlook: Chicago vacant condo program - chicagotribune.com Within the city of Chicago, armed with an almost 2-year-old law, tho...

Bottom Line - Subprime suicide: Notorious broker found dead A disgraced securities broker who was one of the subprime mortgage market's ...

Fred Fischer weighs in: Evan: You may share the following with anyone. The following is my response comments to the Privatopia story of...

From George Staropoli comes this response to the Pilot/Berding discussion: Finally, a debate, a firm discussion of one of my favorite issu...

Landscape Absurdism: Las Vegas - Design - The Atlantic Cities Take a look at the way some developers and cities have decided to lay out subd...

Billions needed to upgrade America’s leaky water infrastructure - The Washington Post Rapidly deteriorating roads and bridges may stifle Ame...

Typewriter repairman keeps busy in high-tech age - Houston Chronicle Anybody out there still have one of these? For many years I hung onto m...