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Cover Art by Leonie Bos
Landlords were so greedy after enclosure that the Church of England felt obliged to reprimand them with a prayer:
“The earth is thine, O Lord, and all that is contained therein. We heartily pray thee to send thy holy spirit into the hearts of those that possess the grounds, pastures and dwelling places of the earth, that they, remembering themselves to be thy tenants, may not rack or stretch out the rents of their houses or lands; not yet take unreasonable fines and incomes, after the manner of covetous worldlings; but, so let them out to others that the inhabitants thereof may be able both to pay their rents, and also honestly to live, to nourish their family and to relieve the poor.”
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front matters
The best pages are ahead of you.
The Soapbox
Letters + The Internet Speaks
Okay these letters were a bit better, keep it up.
Friends & Foes
Mayor Pete’s War on the Homeless
Pete Buttigieg is a charming man who speaks some Norwegian and wears wool socks. He also oversaw a wave of evictions and waged a campaign against South Bend’s homeless.
Struggle Session
The Housing Question
We talked to four tenant organizers about how to build working-class movements for housing justice.
The Joys of Home Buying
In case you’ve never tried to buy a home, I should warn you: if you’re not affluent, you’re heading into a world of pain.
Means of Deduction
And yet there is a great deal of money made here.
Vulgar Empiricist
How to Solve the Housing Problem
The size of the housing crisis can be daunting, but with a committed political movement and a little bit of state power, it can be confronted.
Uneven & Combined
Universal Rent Control Now
Ignore the neoliberal naysayers; rent control can be an important tool in our battle for housing justice.
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Reading Materiel
Socialist CliffsNotes.
Canon Fodder
What You Should Read
You’ll need to lug all these books with you every time you move in search of a cheaper apartment.
Field Notes
The Great American Mortgage Fraud
How banks engaged in systematic forgery to prove ownership of foreclosed homes.
Dossier
The Lingo
This list won’t make your city any kinder, but it might help you crack its code.
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☆ Luxury Apartment! (based on 80% AMI)
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☆ Homelessness Solved! Tiny Home cottage 4 sale!!!
we need a green new deal for housing
What would a bold left-wing housing plan look like? Let’s build ten million new, public, no-carbon homes in ten years and guarantee housing for all.
The Zone Defense
What we need isn’t exclusionary zoning, inclusionary zoning, upzoning, downzoning, a zoning freeze, or no zoning at all. We need an anticapitalist planning movement.
Cultural Capital
Antonio Gramsci died for
our sins — and so you could misquote him.
Red Channels
The Irony of Soviet Modernism
How a 1975 blockbuster satirized the spread of a typical high-rise.
Bass & Superstructure
Kreuzberg Against the Machine
How the West Berlin squatter scene produced Germany’s greatest rock band.
Ways of Seeing
Rebuilding the Social City
To solve the housing crisis, we may have to go back to the future.
Still from The Irony of Fate (1975)
Still from Afonya (1975)
Still from Autumn Marathon (1979)
The Unmaking of the British Working Class
Margaret Thatcher described Right to Buy as “one of the most important revolutions of the century.” She was right. And we‘re still living with the consequences.
The Homeownership Trap
Millions have already faced the dark side of the American Dream. Is there a way to stabilize and democratize homeownership?
The Tumbrel
The landlord is a rational miser.
The Worst Estate
The Private Equity Press
We should demand a media that covers the lives and struggles of working people — homeless, on the verge of eviction, trying to hang on. And not the glamorous lives of property speculators.
Girondins
Homeless People Don’t Need an App, They Need a Fucking House
The headline pretty much sums it up.
Versailles
The Zombie-Investor Apocalypse
There’s no use in asking why vacant housing and homelessness exist despite the presence of the super-wealthy. These issues exist directly because of them.
Leftovers
The magazine is not “abolished,” it withers away.
Popular Front
The Cooperative Option
Mutual aid cooperatives in Latin America give us a glimpse of what democratic social housing could look like.
The Dustbin
We Once Had the Answers
Sweden’s social democrats managed to solve a housing crisis and build a million homes in less than a decade. Why, then, is the Miljonprogrammet maligned today?
The Dustbin
Going Up the Country
The New Left and the “back-to-the-land” movement.
Means & Ends
Long Live Jacobin Radio
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