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Zillow Isn’t Buying All Of The Homes on Your Block

The dangerous allure of using easy anecdotes to explain complex problems

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Marker

11 min readSep 28, 2021

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Zillow for sale sign in a residential subdivision. Source: Zillow Media Room

It all started on TikTok. These 5 words could probably explain much of what’s happening in popular culture today. They also inspire fear, excitement, or confusion depending on who’s reading them. Instead of touching…

Coby Lefkowitz

Written by Coby Lefkowitz

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Marker

Urbanist, Developer, Writer, & Optimist working to create more beautiful, sustainable, healthy, equitable and people-oriented places.

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