A new White House plan to nationalize housing policy and grant renters more protection has left mom-and-pop landlords with questions and concerns.
Companies with deep resources are outsourcing management to apps and algorithms, putting home ownership further out of reach.
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As mentioned in a previous post, when I have looked at previous right to left, and left to right political swings, they seem to happen globally, and they seem to happen roughly at the same time. A global shift left happened in the 1930s, and kept shifting until 1970s, when it began to shift back to the right. We are now well into a shift back to the left, that began in 2016. As also highlighted, modern democracies are filled with checks and balances to slow political shifts, but they still happen.
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Less than a year after voters approved some of the strictest rent control measures in the country, the St. Paul, Minnesota, city council appears set to approve exemptions for new construction projects and other reforms opposed by activists.
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In August 1971, President Richard Nixon went on national television and shocked the world by defaulting on the gold-backed dollar system created at Bretton Woods in 1945. Up to that point, dollars were essentially coupons for real money … gold. Foreign dollar holders could turn in their dollars and walk away with gold at $35 per ounce.
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