Nation Of Shantytown-Dwellers
Thursday, March 26th, 2009
Well, here is some depressing news! The hot new housing sector in the US isn’t houses at all: it’s shacks. That’s because the kind of people who used to be your next-door neighbor if you lived in a sort of marginal neighborhood in a largeish city are now squatters living under bridges in Fresno. Hell, maybe you’re one of them. MORE »











With all this talk about Chris Dodd and Kent Conrad getting SWEETHEART MORTGAGE DEALS giving them literally fractions of a percentage point off their mortgage interest and fees, it’s instructive to find out how many of America’s senators even have mortgages. A shocking number do not, which means they are either living in cardboard boxes like 99% of their bankrupted constituents, or they paid off their houses in 1957, back when John McCain was running for his first term. Find out what Politico’s intrepid researchers dug up, after the jump.
Congratulations to Dominic Turano, incoming president of the Washington Area Realtors Board:
Pretty good price, good location, and the best part is, you’d get to live with Congresswoman Ginny Browne-Waite! Yes, that’s her ad, as an operative found out after expressing interest in the room. Trawling for roommates on craigslist — can there be any lingering doubt that House members are basically college students with slightly better wardrobes?