@spiroferrer

Trap economist and landlordology scholar

Joined May 2020
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The largest corporate landlords in the United States are surgically evicting Los Angeles' Black tenants. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…

Corporate practices of racial banishment in Los Angeles

Using a new dataset of eviction records produced through the Tenant Power Toolkit in Los Angeles and interviews with affected tenants, I trace the role of corporate landlords in driving new geograp...

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Explaining the concept of the downwardly-mobile petite bourgeoisie to a physics student
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Novara Media
@novaramediaOct 25
"It's cost Americans $1 billion already in excess healthcare costs. So that's in the real world, in this political economy, that is what AI is doing to healthcare." Ash Sarkar (@ayocaesar) is joined by Naomi Klein (@NaomiAKlein) and Astra Taylor (@astradisastra), to discuss AI and its impact on the economy. Watch the full episode of Downstream IRL on our YouTube channel.
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Some of the clearest evidence that the more student debt you cancel, the better off families and the economy is.
Marshall Steinbaum 🔥@Econ_Marshall9h
🚨🚨New version of our student debt cancellation paper is out 🚨🚨 Using a nationally representative credit panel, we follow borrowers whose federal loans were canceled in 2021–2024 for up to four years. Cancellation raised homeownership, credit scores, and credit access. 1/20
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Joe Weisenthal
@TheStalwart6h
YIMBYs are so funny to me. "I've made a fascinating observation. It turns out that people don't like it when their neighborhoods undergo massive disruption"
Matt Bruenig
@MattBruenig6h
Replying to @TheStalwart
I think it's quite possible when the topic is whether playground equipment has reached end of life. This is fascinating though. Explains a lot about why nobody wants to build housing.
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We need to impose professional licensing requirements on film criticism
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Many interesting things to think about. One is the contradiction between a socialism which identifies its aim with a dispassionately defined general good, little different from liberals, and one which identifies itself with the aims of constituencies of organized working people.
Michael Friedrich@mfriedrichnycOct 25
A tenacious group of tenants is fighting a teardown plan in one of Manhattan's most desirable neighborhoods that could spell the end of public housing as we know it? I wrote for @newrepublic about their struggle and the fate of government-run homes in the US.
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Often this is rendered as "technocracy vs populism" which I think is partially right. Often it's rendered as being about the objective class interests of one part of the DSA or another which i think is a bit excessively vulgar. More class socialization than objective position IMO
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HAHAHAHA. The Atlantic visits a Maine trailer park where residents are fighting a corporate landlord over soaring rents and brown tap water. Then it visits a nonprofit teaching women and LGBTQ people how to become welders. The author sees a trans flag at the welding school and somehow turns this into a lecture about a “professional-class insurgency” alienating working-class voters. Maine's own workforce directory describes the school as providing blue-collar job training, including instruction in workers' rights. Apparently, a welding torch becomes a symbol of professional-class elitism the moment somebody hangs a fucking trans flag nearby. Remarkable what passes for class analysis these days.
The Atlantic
@TheAtlanticOct 24
Troy Jackson is courting working-class voters in Maine—while championing a set of policies that many of them don’t support, @Tyler_A_Harper argues. theatlantic.com/culture/2026…

The Contradictions of Troy Jackson

The Democratic Senate candidate for Maine is courting working-class voters—while championing a set of policies that they don’t support.

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A tenacious group of tenants is fighting a teardown plan in one of Manhattan's most desirable neighborhoods that could spell the end of public housing as we know it? I wrote for @newrepublic about their struggle and the fate of government-run homes in the US.
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Honestly I can’t even get into the mindset of someone who would care about this. It’s like trying to understand the experience of a sea sponge.
ghostly gwen howerton@kissphoriaOct 23
friend of mine in Dallas got a political text warning of "furries" at polling places. The group, Texans for Common Sense, is linked to Texans United for a Conservative Majority PAC, which is funded in part by GOP mega donor Tim Dunn
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I don’t mean that to denigrate their cognitive ability or whatever just as a measure of how incommensurable our experiences must be.
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All small business owners need to be sent to the countryside istg
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Some journalist needs to find out what small businesses services firm/entrepreneur is selling these to people
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this is also true of evictions for nonpayment of rent, although that data is harder to parse where there are not just-cause protections that require the landlord to specify a reason for eviction. the rent eats first...
Ryan Grim
@ryangrimOct 20
This is a bad sign, because people stop paying their car note last, for obvious reasons. Auto loan delinquencies going up mean people have tried everything else to get by first and are now at risk of losing their ride.
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Sometimes being from an immigrant family is like being in a Marquez novel: Greatgrandpa “died from too much red meat” Great uncle “died from too many cherries” Cousin “cured crohns by eating apples” Grandpa “cured cancer by eating raw onion, learned from an albanian at sea”
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Errata: witness to massacre of acqui division, related to famed hanged anarchist (other side), hereditary malapropism issue, every other generation recipient of power of healing through laying on hands (secular)
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across the USA homeowners are asking why they can't be interred in their homes after death, accompanied by a ritually sacrificed doordasher and favorite appliances, the entire property set ablaze. "what 'gas lines'?" asks one "if i'm not alive, does the subdivision even exist?"
POLITICO
@politicoOct 18
“I’m old. I’ve paid my home off,” said Ray Warner, a 72-year-old Akron resident. “Why would I pay property tax?” Across the country, homeowners are asking the same question and revolting against property taxes at a scale not seen in a half century. politico.com/news/magazine/2…

Do You Really Own Your Home? A Tax Revolt Says No.

The argument that property taxes make Americans renters in their own houses has fueled the biggest anti-tax uprising in half a century, and local governments are scrambling.

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– at Ohio, USA
David DeWitt@DC_DeWittOct 17
Ohio had the steepest decline in homeownership affordability between 2020 to 2025, according to new reporting from the National Housing Conference ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/…

Ohio saw the biggest decline in homeownership affordability, new report shows • Ohio Capital Journal

Ohio had the steepest decline in homeownership affordability between 2020 to 2025, according to new reporting from the National Housing Conference. 

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Property taxes should be 5-6x higher actually the only people who benefit from lower taxes are mortgage lenders
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Thank you for your engagement, i think the state should take you all into conservatorship
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