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The New York World
I’ve just made a small but important change to my bio that deserves a callout here, not just because my new job is something you ought to know about but also because it bookends the five years of my life I’ve devoted to writing about the real estate bubble and bust. I’m now editor of The New York World, a new accountability journalism project at Columbia Journalism School that not accidentally is named after the mighty newspaper founded by Joseph Pulitzer. I’m working with a full-time staff of six butt-kicking graduates of Columbia master’s programs to cover the inner workings of city and state government. We’ve just had our first big story, breaking the news that the high-paid CEO of a homeless housing and services agency founded by Gov. Mario Cuomo has resigned just as a task force appointed by the governor has begun to probe excessive compensation at state-funded nonprofits. That executive, Laurence Belinsky, is married to a cousin of Andrew Cuomo and his sister Maria, who chairs the board of the organization, HELP USA.
The New York World’s website will be live soon, at thenewyorkworld.com. In the meantime, follow us at @thenyworld.
I’ll never stop paying attention to housing – hell, I’m covering New York City – but I won’t be writing about it regularly. Pulling away from a huge story that is by no means over is hard. The good news is that some very good journalists continue to chronicle the painful recovery (to the extent there is one) from the housing and financial crises. The bad is that the cleansing power of exposure – story after story revealing securities fraud or predatory lending – isn’t enough to get homeowners or the economy out of their hole.
How the homes we live in turned into the monsters that ate our economy and the United States became a nation obsessed with real estate.
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- Joint Center for Housing Studies
- Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
- National Consumer Law Center
- National Housing Institute
- National Housing Trust
- National Low Income Housing Coalition
- National Training and Information Center
- Natn’l Community Reinvestment Coalition
- NEDAP
- New America Foundation
- PolicyLink
- Pratt Center for Community Development
- Revson Fellowship
- Smart Growth America
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- Baseline Scenario
- Ben Smith
- Bloomberg News
- Calculated Risk
- City Limits
- Consumer Law and Policy Blog
- Doug Henwood
- Felix Salmon
- Galleycat
- Housing Wire
- Mother Jones
- Next American City
- Paul Krugman
- PolicyCents
- Ryan Avent
- Shelterforce
- Street Level
- Talking Points Memo
- The Audit
- The Balance Sheet
- The Big Picture
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