The Privatopia Papers

Scott Pruitt’s $50-per-night condo looks really bad - The Washington Post : It just gets worse and worse. He was renting by the night at a ...

EXCLUSIVE: Pruitt's EPA security broke down door to lobbyist condo - ABC News : "ABC News first reported Thursday that Pruitt had l...

Privatization is really a plan to dismantle Social Security : Of course it is. Many privatization plans are just ways of taking assets tha...

Santorum: Instead of calling for gun laws, kids should take CPR classes - CNNPolitics : "How about kids instead of looking to someone...

Remember the HOA in Las Vegas, where a swing set collapsed and severely injured a 15 year old boy, and somehow a $2 million dollar demand wa...

State will not ‘take over’ a condominium association or HOA : "Question: What is the legal standard for the state to intervene and take...

Welcome to Zucktown. Where Everything Is Just Zucky. - The New York Times : "In just a few years, Facebook built a virtual community th...

The Spread of 'Billionaire's Bay,' the Glut of Million-Dollar Homes Across San Francisco - CityLab : "Between 2012 and 2016...

Washington D.C. Appellate Court Holds Foreclosure of Condominium Lien Extinguished First Mortgage Despite Condominium Association’s Represen...

Nursing Home No More: The New Trend Is Aging With Your Friends : This is about cohousing for seniors, which is an interesting alternative t...

St. Boniface Church Is Resurrected as a New Condo Development | Chicago magazine | April 2018 : "In a nod to the church’s charitable hi...

Completion of Preparatory Work on Gated Communities Legislation Anticipated by 2019/20 - Jamaica Information Service : "The proposed Ac...

Man says battle with Olathe HOA proves need for proposed KS law | The Kansas City Star : "Scott Wircenske’s eight-year battle with his ...

Oxberry pays HOA dues to get neighborhood support for luxury retail project - Houston Chronicle : Here you go, folks. Local democracy in ac...

Getting Started – Choosing Between a Co-op and a Condo - The New York Times : If California gets serious about building more high-density h...

In California, Momentum Builds for Radical Action on Housing - CityLab : "Cities around the world are dealing with severe housing short...

You Care About the Subdivision Regulations, You Just Don't Know It (Yet) — Strong Towns : "Basically, local subdivision regulations...

Middle Class neighborhoods must be focus for some cities : Interesting question--should cities focus on helping distressed neighborhoods, o...

Can mass timber help California build its way out of the housing crisis? - Archpaper.com : Mass timber means using wood for the load-beari...

Ben Carson's housing agency drops pledge to end housing discrimination | US news | The Guardian : "The US housing department, helme...