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Some Germans bought a ghost town near Marfa for art shows and to cosplay as Texans. Now it's for sale again and wannabe Kangaroo farmers and nudist colonies are lining up to bid. Great story by Adolfo Flores wsj.com/articles/for-s… via The Wall Street Journal

The Supreme Court ordered Alabama to create a second Black-majority congressional district, upholding a finding that the GOP-controlled state legislature likely violated the Voting Rights Act by dispersing Black voters into maj-white districts wsj.com/articles/supre… via The Wall Street Journal

Thanks for the nod, National Association of Real Estate Editors, NAREE Konrad Putzier

The Wagner fighter warned them: “If you refuse to execute a mission, you get shot. And if you try to retreat, you also get shot.” The Russian Soldier Who Surrendered to a Ukrainian Drone wsj.com/articles/russi…

The waves of migration that brought Black Americans to many northern cities are reversing wsj.com/articles/black…

"A Journal analysis of data and reports from more than 170 of roughly 400 entities known as continuums of care found that 75% are reporting homelessness increases year-over-year, with L.A. reporting the largest tallies by far." wsj.com/articles/los-a… via The Wall Street Journal

Miami’s surging housing costs and a fickle labor market are sending many locals packing wsj.com/articles/miami…

.@NewsCorp's Dow Jones unit, which publishes The Wall Street Journal, has seen nice revenue growth in recent years. Employees, not so much. I’m supporting the IAPE TNG/CWA 1096 proposal to bring our wages back to where they were before the pandemic! $NWSA #IAPEStrong

Samuel Medina, the editor of New York Review of Architecture, is less enthusiastic about the new 60 Wall St design. “It’s ‘lunch bowl contemporary.’ It’s bland, it’s leafy, and it reeks of money" The Final Days of Wall Street’s Beloved ‘Tacky’ ’80s Lobby nytimes.com/2023/08/31/nyr…

"In Naples, a typical rental cost $2,833 in July, according to Zillow data. The average Social Security payment for retired workers and their dependents that month was $1,791" @shannonnajma wsj.com/economy/housin…

Younger generations are losing Georgia’s “country as cornbread” drawl. wsj.com/us-news/georgi… via Scott Calvert

Here is a thread on some coverage of issues with Eric Adams's fundraising Adams Campaign Repeatedly Ignored Regulators’ Demands to Identify Supporters Behind $300,000 in Contributions thecity.nyc/2023/09/22/eri….

The ‘Georgists’ Are Out There, and They Want to Tax Your Land - The New York Times nytimes.com/2023/11/12/bus…

A close reading of the modern corporate layoff letter from Chip Cutter "Executives want to acknowledge the contributions of the laid-off employees, while quickly then pivoting to explain why the company will be fine without them." wsj.com/business/spoti…

"To understand how rising rents punish families of modest means, look no further than the queen-size bed that Jessica Jones and her three children share in her mother’s living room, where each night brings a... tussle for space in a house with no privacy." nytimes.com/2023/12/11/us/…

Why is it so hard to build affordable housing in California? One LA project -- 17 years in the making -- gives some clues and a window into what might be changing. My latest w/ Will Parker wsj.com/real-estate/ho…

Housing is one of the biggest drivers of rising college costs in the U.S.—for new luxury suites as well as old windowless rooms ⁦Melissa Korn⁩ ⁦shane shifflett⁩ wsj.com/us-news/educat…

Who tried to steal Graceland? The scammers behind a plot to nab Elvis Presley’s famous estate goaded the media to “come find us in Nigeria.” NBC News’ search didn’t lead to Africa, but to a grandmother in a small town in Missouri. nbcnews.com/news/us-news/g…

“I’ve gone through the cold, the heat, I’ve gotten so sick. I would love to have shelter, on Randall’s Island on a little cot, wherever it is.” Booted from the city's shelters under increasingly strict 30-day limits, migrants are setting up camp nearby. thecity.nyc/2024/08/07/ran…

In Phoenix, eviction is its own thriving economy. wsj.com/articles/WP-WS…