Tracy Rosenthal

@two__evils

If McDonald’s is a real estate company that sells hamburgers, the U.C. system is a real estate company that sells degrees. Grad students are striking not least so they can afford to live where they work.

A leaked tape recording council members’ racist slurs demonstrates the deep alliance between real estate interests and the state.

Just 7 percent of the people in Los Angeles’s Echo Park encampment found permanent housing after it was cleared. Almost half are missing. Seven are dead. That’s not a failure of homelessness policy; it’s an example of the system working exactly as intended.

These public-private partnerships skate by on their complexity and branding, but they undermine a future where housing is a right.