You should consider contacting an attorney. Generally, when a contract is assigned, the assignor (or assignee) has a duty to notify the obligor. If you can prove you kept paying the assignor (contact your bank immediately and request full statements and records for all of this), you may have a claim against the…

Yeah, something like 45-50% of homebuyers where I live are from out of state. A large portion of that has gone for vacation rentals like Airbnb or VRBO. It’s creating a massivehousing shortage for residents and driving rents up at a ridiculous pace. A $600/month studio in 2013 is now almost $1600/month. It’s going to…

The top-end prices drive the low-end prices. As one increases, so does the other. More over, the low-end prices also become further and further endangered by the inflating market, becoming prime targets for gentrification, stripping out the low-end market to replace it with new high-end residences.

I agree with this. Price should be driven by local supply and demand. Not by investors who may live on the other side of the world who buy up every available property in cash and drive up the local market price beyond what local incomes can afford.

There has never been a shortage of housing. It has always been a shortage of AFFORDABLE housing — ie housing within the reach of the majority of US incomes. When more housing gets built, it’s not priced in that range. It’s priced at the range of what the top 25% earners can afford, for the same reason that everything…

All the new housing isn’t for people who live here. It’s for wealthy students from China and Korea who come here to go to business school. All the new apartment developments are upscale and priced as though they’re in New York, not Indiana.

We’re building tons of housing where I live.

Thanks to both jez and deadspin, esp, for staying on top of this coverage.

I really want it to be more ok for people to discuss their salaries. People are so money-squeemish. Having it instilled in us that talking about pay is uncouth has only hurt us. But keeping pay secret only helps employers, for the rest of us it’s powerful information.

Hijabs are still representative of one of the worst forms of patriarchy on a global scale. No amount of good lighting and Photoshop can change that.

OMG the way she calls him “Larry” (I’m sure she was supposed to call him Dr. Nassar during all those years) is dripping with such perfect condescension. POWER move, 15.866 total score.

I would also like to speak on behalf of the generously be-titted who love to cook: aprons are not fucking meant for us. (Not that this is Meghan’s problem.) Every cute apron ever made does the dreaded slide and ends up hugging one giant can and looks like shit and fuck aprons.

Hannah Arendt has a good piece on this and she frames it in regards to the Holocaust. It’s not forgiveness in the sense of just letting people off the hook or forgetting, but in the sense that it takes some letting go in order to live your own life. I think Korean vengeance movies explore it pretty well also

the editors of Babe were . . . courting a bad faith conversation

I would be really happy for a few dudes who have worked with Woody Allen or any of the reported abusers to weigh in and add their voices to the “Not working with this guy again” conversation. Their silence is deafening as only women appear to be called to account for it, are taking the professional hit and have to…

I appreciate Tapper’s comment, and it’s an important point, but Miller’s used enough alt right neo-Nazi dog whistles that he’s no longer invited to Shabbat.

“Its crazy kids today think they need to sit around waiting for the perfect job to come around.” Are you for real?

You graduated 10 years ago. Things. Are. Not. The. Same. Furthermore I’m tired of people acting like companies should get away with not paying people (esp entry level) a living wage. I have come across so many jobs it would actually cost more in transportation to get to, than the job actually pays. No one expects a…

The job market is very difficult for youngins right now, and it’s usually not just that they all want a big fancy job right out the gate. A person with that much debt can’t afford to pay it and rent every month on the salaries that are being offered for many of the entry-level jobs being offered. So sure, she could…

My parents lived near that building 50 years ago and my mom was OBSESSED with trying to spot her. Then one day, my mom was pushing my brother in a baby carriage and Greta Garbo was walking towards them. As she passed my mom, she said, “you’re baby is beautiful”.