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Political Factoid
Developers of mega-homes
are buying up and tearing
down affordable housing
in cities across America.
- Replacing them with houses
three times the size and
costing 4 to 10 times as much.
- Typically selling them to
people from wealthy families
in India and China (or to
Chinese investors).
- Often forcing people out of
their homes by jacking up
the neighborhood taxes.
- Making big political donations.
- Blocking the sunlight from
any of the original homes
remaining.
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