Buying a Starter Home at the End of the World
I knew there was nothing natural about my homeownership. I had merely found a lucky loophole in the midst of tremendous misfortune.
This is Unreal Estates, a column by Beth Boyle Machlan on American mythologies of home and housing.
SentinelLittle White Houses: How the Postwar Home Constructed Race in America
Race For Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Home Ownership
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Beth Boyle Machlan is a writer and teacher who lives in Brooklyn. She's working on a book of essays about real estate, identity, and desire. Her essays have appeared on Avidly, River Teeth, Guernica, The Rumpus, The Awl, and the New York Times. She yells about writing, teaching, her pets, and hockey at @bethmachlan.
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