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How private equity firms are wreaking havoc on the global housing market, with UN Special Rapporteur Leilani Farha; Plus: Poet Carolyn Forche

0:08 – Mondays with Mitch

  • The Mueller Report won’t be released til mid-April. It’s 400 pages long.
  • San Francisco transfixed by dueling GoFundMes over homeless navigation center 

0:34 – Carolyn Forche is a poet, author and human rights advocate. Her work—including Blue Hour, The Angel of History, The Country Between Us, and Gathering the Tribes—has been translated into more than twenty languages. She has received the Windham-Campbell Prize and the Academy of American Poets Fellowship. Her latest book is What You Have Heard is True: A Memoir of Witness and Resistance.

1:08 – The UN is accusing the private equity firm, the Blackstone Group of “wreaking havoc” and helping to fuel the global housing crisis.

Leilani Farha (@leilanifarha) is the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right to Housing.

1:34 – Author interview: Robert Tsai (@robertltsai) is a professor of law at the American University. He’s the author of America’s Forgotten Constitutions” and his latest book is “Practical Equality: Forging Justice in a Divided Nation.

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