Essential costs like housing accounted for 17% of total spending among households earning annual incomes of less than $15,000 while only representing 2% of costs among households earning $200,000+. On the flipside, 19% of total spending among households earning $200K+ went toward personal insurance and pensions compared to roughly 1.5% among households earning less than $15K.

Vox's Jerusalem Demsas joins Matt and Dara on a time machine trip back to a WW1-era Supreme Court decision that shaped land use policy, zoning, and racial discrimination in housing. Discussion of Buchanan (and the related Euclid case decided nine years later) leads our hosts to talk a lot about the interrelated histories of zoning and racism in twentieth-century America.

Owners like Steve Ballmer can take the kinds of deductions on team assets — everything from media deals to player contracts — that industrialists take on factory equipment. That helps them pay lower tax rates than players and even stadium workers.

U.S. households added $13.5 trillion in wealth last year, the biggest increase in records going back three decades.

The conversation about gentrification continually repackages a set of debunked theories as reality and it obscures a set of real crises that need fixing.

Lower home appraisal values contribute to the wealth gap between white communities and communities of Black and Latinx people.

Meet the executives who burn millions daily and enrich themselves while creating no real value

Owner-occupied homes in Black neighborhoods are undervalued by $48,000 per home on average, amounting to $156 billion in cumulative losses.

The widely diverse Asian American community is broadly prosperous by many metrics, but individual hardships faced by some groups cannot be overlooked.

A collection of essays documenting the financial challenges Millennials face.

Matthew Rognlie says that inequality may not grow in the way Piketty predicts, finding that the long-term rise in capital income is driven mostly by housing, not labor division.

The City Observatory is a study of modern-day cities and urban development practices.

The City Observatory is a study of modern-day cities and urban development practices.