The Privatopia Papers

What Happened to the American Boomtown? - The New York Times : "Interstate mobility nationwide has slowed over the last 30 years. But, ...

Special report: Can we build our way out of the housing crisis? - The San Diego Union-Tribune : "San Diego County should be awash in ne...

Vancouver’s “Radical” Housing Plan Makes Waves – Next City : "It involves densifying areas that are currently stocked with single-famil...

Supervisors to vote on rescinding sale of private street in Presidio Heights - Story | KTVU " The wealthy homeowner's plight has d...

Bay City bar countersues condo owners for harassment | MLive.com The condo owners sued because of the noise from the bar, so the bar owner ...

South Africa: Gated Communities and Privatised Privilege - allAfrica.com "Attempts to privatise privilege by invoking the law of contr...

Brookhaven reverses vote to prohibit gated community - Reporter Newspapers But they are going to develop a policy on this: "[T] he cit...

http://www.independ ent.co.uk/news/world/americas/malibu-church-homeless-free-meals-stopped-too-many-needy-people-order-latest-a8075891.htm...

https://www.iol.co.za/sunday-tribune/news/gatedestates-a-victory-against-arrogant-draconian-rules-12065349 DURBAN - Property tycoon Nieme...

http://www.themalaymailonline.com/malaysia/article/free-from-cops-criminals-now-running-business-from-gated-communities#FCDsJeOyw5lm9J73.97 ...

CondoGate: Is there a Scandal in your Community Association? - Realty Times Attorney Benny Kass weighs in on a matter that people ask me ab...

Condos out, apartments in | Articles | News | OakPark.com " It was a golden age for condo conversions in the Chicago area in the 1980...

Saudi Arabia Just Announced Plans to Build a Mega City That Will Cost $500 Billion - Bloomberg : "Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Sal...

Local HOA finds large sum of unclaimed money, 10 News Find... : "A Blacksburg homeowners association that has more than 100 members re...

Fire, death leads to Bay Pointe HOA tussle in Mason with Rentz Management : I won't try to summarize this saga, but it is an awful sto...

The Remunicipalisation of Water Services in Paris, France - futurepolicy.org : "On 24 November 2008, against exponentially rising wat...

Phoenix Landmark condo owners fight HOA assessments — and win : "The HOA assessment for a new HVAC system would have cost each of them ...

Op-Ed: New York Needs a New Deal - News | Planetizen From water mains to public buildings, much of the infrastructure in use in the city to...

Man wants to keep squirrel in his condo as pet. It's Florida.

The Deep Question Behind Rand Paul's 'Trivial' Dispute - Bloomberg : "If Skaggs is accurately representing the senator’s vi...