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A Fraud Larger Than Daycare

This week on New World Next Week: Why did Venezuela stand down?; what is the Somali fraud story REALLY about?; and bye-bye public broadcasting! Here’s more from The Corbett Report and Media Monarchy.

 

How Rent Control Hurts Renters

With rents skyrocketing across the nation, activists and politicians are turning to rent-control policies.

But John Stossel reports that everywhere this tactic has been implemented, it harms the people it’s meant to help. He explains further, citing the strict rent-control policies imposed by St. Paul, Minn., a couple of years ago.

They Want Us Like Sardines

Clif High addresses the globalist push to drive the vast proportion of the population into 15-minute cities.

No more will the political dogs, like Washington Gov. Jay Inslee, support single-family suburban homes with luxurious backyards for gardening, recreation and relaxation. Now, they want to cram the population into tighter quarters without space set aside to go outdoors. We’re talking endless condos as well as multi-story apartments.

Is there any quality of life in this vision? Or must we all live cramped together like sardines in a can because the leftist politicians deem it so?

Paris: Urbanism Done Too Well

Black Pigeon Speaks explores how Paris has attempted to grapple with two conflicting demands: Providing more affordable housing while also steadfastly protecting its architectural traditions and older monuments and buildings. Can Paris survive as a boutique city? What about parasite housing? Can it solve the dilemma. Other cities around the world, including San Francisco and Tokyo, are facing similar quandaries.

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