Tenants Can’t Pay Rent. Landlords Won’t Pay Bills. What Happens Next?
New York’s looming foreclosure crisis could lead to massive corporate windfalls - or to large-scale social housing conversions. The choice is ours.
Samuel Stein · December 23, 2020

"Predicting a downturn, investment firms at the end of 2019 had $142 billion set aside to spend on distressed properties. By May 2020, that figure had risen to $328 billion." | Wikimedia Commons
Samuel Stein is a housing policy analyst for the Community Service Society and the author of the book Capital City: Gentrification and… more
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