New Housing Blog, Not Like the Old Blog

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For us, the trouble with a new housing blog that defies easy description is that, well, we specialize in easy descriptions. So we skip the description and invite you to check out Four Story, which describes itself as ‘Fact-based housing advocacy with a human perspective.’

Why it’s different: it has fiction. And art -- you’re looking at ‘Dream Home’ by Anthony Discenza.

It has a manifesto too, which says in part: ‘This housing advocacy site will not be the result of consensus. It will be fact-based advocacy with a human perspective. We will support new affordable housing development that is sustainable, ‘green’ and well-designed. We will support preservation of existing housing.’

It also has the salty Rebecca Schoenkopf, who wrote the ‘Commie Girl’ column for OC Weekly. Explaining her status as a renter, she blogs about her house-hunting experiences: ‘I saw one-bedrooms that smelled of cat pee, directly under power lines and with a view onto the neighbors’ garage, at prices that—for interest only—were more than my take-home pay, and my take-home pay fell smack in the center of Orange County’s median household income.’

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Photo Credit: Fourstory.org