{"id":27773,"date":"2019-07-19T10:19:50","date_gmt":"2019-07-19T14:19:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=27773"},"modified":"2019-07-19T10:19:50","modified_gmt":"2019-07-19T14:19:50","slug":"the-eviction-crisis-is-starting-to-look-a-lot-like-the-subprime-mortgage-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2019\/07\/19\/the-eviction-crisis-is-starting-to-look-a-lot-like-the-subprime-mortgage-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"The eviction crisis is starting to look a lot like the subprime mortgage crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Market Watch <\/em>has the article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marketwatch.com\/story\/the-eviction-crisis-is-starting-to-look-a-lot-like-the-subprime-mortgage-crisis-2019-07-03?link=sfmw_tw\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">The eviction crisis is starting to look a lot like the subprime mortgage crisis<\/a>. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n&#8220;Now, a new study shows that not all evictions are created equal. Scholars at Georgia State University, in conjunction with a ProPublica journalist, examined \u201cserial\u201d eviction filings, or those done repeatedly by a landlord against a tenant. By comparing serial evictions to ordinary ones, the researchers found patterns of landlord behavior and intentions, some of which are reminiscent of the worst of the housing crisis a decade ago.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This might be a warning about the source of the next crash. The housing shortage is pushing up rents and prices, but doesn&#8217;t seem to be spurring increased construction.  What are the chances that real estate will be the cause of two crashes in a row?  If we didn&#8217;t fix the problem that caused the last crisis, there is no reason why we shouldn&#8217;t expect a rerun.<\/p>\n<p>Compare this to what happened in the 1930s.  There were many laws and  changes in regulations that were meant to prevent a repeat.  Those changes were successful until they atarted being repealed in the 1980s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Market Watch has the article The eviction crisis is starting to look a lot like the subprime mortgage crisis. &#8220;Now, a new study shows that not all evictions are created equal. Scholars at Georgia State University, in conjunction with a ProPublica journalist, examined \u201cserial\u201d eviction filings, or those done repeatedly by a landlord against a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-27773","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27773"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27773\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27774,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27773\/revisions\/27774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}