Gimme That House

Yesterday the city council in Richmond, California voted in favor of a plan in which: the city will buy underwater houses from banks using eminent domain and resell them to investors in a way that will let the current residents stay in their homes. It’s pretty complicated and it’s a plan pitched and headed by a private for-profit company but I think it sounds great and I hope it works. Experiments!

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