The Rent Roll Newsletter
A newsletter on the rental market by Jacob Udell and Ruthy Gourevitch
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A Right to Housing? (opens the original)
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Today on the Rent Roll, we sat down with author Sam Stein, who is out with a new book, A Right to Housing?. Sam has held numerous roles in the housing justice movement in New York, from organizer to writer to policy analyst. He’s also a friend and teacher to us both (and many others) as we’ve struggled through making sense of our work. Sam’s first book, <a href="https://www.versobooks.com/products/602-capital-city?srsltid=AfmBOoqHf5dn
Grounding Financialization (opens the original)
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This week, we’re hearing from one of our favorite researchers, Chenab Navalkha, who has spent the last five years tracing how tenant organizers have responded to the financialization of housing at the national level. Her dissertation, Grounding Financialization: Property, Finance, and Tenant Politics in the United States, unpacks what she calls the “property-finance” nexus — the idea that housing today is increasingly governed through t
The Government is Financializing Your Home Part III (opens the original)
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By Jacob UdellToday, we’re going to wrap up our series on government de-risking of the rental housing market with a deep dive into how the tax code treats residential rental property. Building off of previous posts, we’ll bring together the various strategies of the financialized landlord model – especially debt leverage, limited liability, and profit via rising asset values – to demonstrate how this model has developed
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