{"id":3567,"date":"2023-05-12T01:20:32","date_gmt":"2023-05-12T01:20:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/pluralistic-we-buy-ugly-houses-is-code-for-we-steal-vulnerable-peoples-homes-11-may-2023"},"modified":"2023-05-12T01:20:32","modified_gmt":"2023-05-12T01:20:32","slug":"pluralistic-we-buy-ugly-houses-is-code-for-we-steal-vulnerable-peoples-homes-11-may-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/pluralistic-we-buy-ugly-houses-is-code-for-we-steal-vulnerable-peoples-homes-11-may-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Pluralistic: 'We buy ugly houses' is code for 'we steal vulnerable peoples' homes' (11 May 2023)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today’s links ‘We buy ugly houses’ is code for ‘we steal vulnerable peoples’ homes’: The pervasive, predatory sleaze of Homevestor, “the #1 homebuyer in the USA.” Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2003, 2013, 2018, 2022 Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming\/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading ‘We buy ugly houses’ is code for ‘we steal vulnerable peoples’ homes’ (permalink) Home ownership is the American dream: not only do you get a place to live, free from the high-handed dictates of a landlord, but you also get an asset that appreciates, building intergenerational wealth while you sleep – literally. Of course, you can’t have it both ways. If your house is an asset you use to cover falling wages, rising health care costs, spiraling college tuition and paper-thin support for eldercare, then it can’t be a place you live. It’s gonna be an asset you sell – or at the very least, borrow so heavily against that you are in constant risk of losing it. This is the contradiction at the heart of the American dream: when America turned its back on organized labor as an engine for creating prosperity and embraced property speculation, it set itself on the road to serfdom – a world where the roof over your head is also your piggy bank, destined to be smashed open to cover the rising costs that an organized labor movement would have fought: https:\/\/gen.medium.com\/the-rents-too-damned-high-520f958d5ec5 Today, we’ve hit the end of the road for the post-war…Pluralistic: 'We buy ugly houses' is code for 'we steal vulnerable peoples' homes' (11 May 2023)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today’s links ‘We buy ugly houses’ is code for ‘we steal vulnerable peoples’ homes’: The pervasive, predatory sleaze of Homevestor, “the #1 homebuyer in the USA.” Hey look at this:… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2455,2457,739,300,735,192,114,2390,2458,141,2454,811,641,12,2456,2459,295],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3567"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3567\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}