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- Barcelona is now warning landlords to fill vacant rental units with tenants or the government will take over their properties
- Wells Fargo has been sued for discriminating against Black homeowners by relying on a modernized version of "redlining" (via @BBGEquality)
- Barcelona is now warning landlords to fill vacant rental units with tenants or the government will take over their properties
- 1/ When people moved out of expensive cities, where did they go? A year of migration data reveals trends and interesting surprises:
- A universal basic income experiment in Stockton, California, is nearly halfway over. How has $500 a month affected the lives of 125 random residents? @sarahsholder reports:
- Anyone who has seen Tokyo's Nakagin Capsule Tower will remember it. Studded with gray cubes, the striking building carries an obvious architectural message: This is a modular habitat. It will now be demolished 🧵
- An estimated 27% of adults in the U.S. missed their rent or mortgage payment for July. That’s probably going to be worse in August.
- 1/ Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer has unveiled legislation that offers billions in federal dollars for cities willing to demolish urban highways that razed or divided neighborhoods decades ago.
- 1/ After a local campaign pressured Airbnb to take aggressive action for the week of inauguration and FBI intelligence warned of armed demonstrations in 50 states and D.C., Airbnb announced a new policy Wednesday bloom.bg/2XF2tUV
- Replying to @CityLab“To say that a rule that requires cities to analyze segregation would ‘destroy the suburbs’ is as close as you can get to an endorsement of racial segregation without actually saying the words," said @shamusroller, executive director of the @NHLP trib.al/MNnNiJ7
- We only know many of the lurid details about the massive tragedy in Tulsa because of a Black woman named Mary E. Jones Parrish. Her book, "Events of the Tulsa Disaster," published in 1922, tells her own story along with eyewitness accounts trib.al/5I4sj7h
- This election is like no other — and cities are preparing for the worst. A number of major U.S. cities are taking steps to avoid widespread voter intimidation and civil unrest ahead of Election Day.
