The Privatopia Papers

Placer County CA homeless people find a house in the suburbs | The Sacramento Bee " As cities around the country struggle with a growi...

The Fed Now Owns Nearly One Third of All US Mortgages " The Fed has snapped up $1 trillion of mortgage bonds since March. It bought a...

Californians are buying their own fire trucks on Craigslist - SFGate "One seller is hoping to get $15,000 for a 53-year-old Ford 150 f...

San Francisco Real Estate - Complicated Market Conditions - Compass "As illustrated below, the San Francisco market currently reflects...

SF condo inventory spikes, with price reductions skyrocketing "As buyers become pickier and shelter in place orders exacerbate the nee...

Late-Stage Delinquencies are Surging, Especially Those With FHA Loans "The overall rate of loans 30 or more days past due increased du...

Steve Bannon Arrested on Superyacht Owned by Chinese Billionaire – Robb Report "[Guo] Wengui, an exiled Chinese billionaire, has busin...

Urban Exiles Are Fueling a Suburban Housing Boom Across the U.S. "In the Covid era, the single-family houses that are the stock in tra...

Top Consumer Home Features During Coronavirus - Realtor.com Economic Research Some people, notably author Joel Kotkin, argue that COVID-19...

Fraud & Embezzlement – Community Associations Network I lost track of all the fraud and embezzlement stories, but Community Association...

Condo Prices Falling at Trump International Hotel & Tower Chicago "Prices are down at the Trump International Hotel & Tower in...

PCB woman arrested for allegedly defrauding condo associations "PANAMA CITY, Fla. (WJHG) - The Bay County Sheriff’s Office announced T...

The Surprising Ways Race Remains a Factor in Mortgage Lending | realtor.com® “There are many practices that lenders can engage in to accomp...

Will Trump Save the Suburbs By Cutting a Rule To Stop Discrimination? | realtor.com® " Trump "is trying to win back the suburban ...

What is the most private city in the world? | Cities | The Guardian "It is notoriously difficult to quantify and map the privatisation...

U.S. town creates local currency to boost coronavirus relief "Tucked away under lock and key in a former railroad depot turned small-t...

Real-estate developers refuse to change communities' plantation names "Volusia and Flagler counties are home to several “plantatio...

Inside the luxury nuclear bunker protecting the mega-rich from the apocalypse - CNET "A volcanic-ash scrubber, a decontamination room,...

St. Louis couple pulls firearms on protesters cutting through their private street - CNN The private streets associations of St. Louis are ...

The £450 BILLION yacht: Concept for 200-yard-long mega-catamaran with a built in HARBOUR | Daily Mail Online As wealth inequality explodes ...