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Paul Jay
Housing a Basic Right or Playground for Global Capital? – Paul Jay
11 minutes Posted Jul 11, 2025 at 6:56 pm.
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In this video, we explore how Wall Street firms, REITs (Real Estate Investment Trusts), and private equity giants are reshaping housing markets—treating homes as hedge funds and tenants as revenue streams. The result? Displacement, skyrocketing rents, and the collapse of housing as a public good.
But it doesn’t have to be this way. What if we took housing out of the hands of corporate landlords and made it public infrastructure—like schools, libraries, and transit systems?