America's gargantuan new corporate landlords evict the shit out of Americans
by Cory Doctorow from on (#27S21)
The housing recovery has been famously uneven, in every way: for one thing, it's allowed hedge-fund and publicly listed landlords to acquire a greater proportion of America's housing stock than ever, even as mass foreclosures created a new class of desperate tenants who pay rent to these corporate giants, who charge higher rents than ever. (more")