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Gen Z Problems: Maxwell Frost Is Struggling to Rent an Apartment
Other young adults, who have poor credit history and are frustrated with expensive rental application fees, can relate to the housing troubles of the first Gen Zer elected to Congress.
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Sam Bankman-Fried Sent Back to Prison After Chaotic Hearing
The disgraced FTX founder, who has been in a Bahamas prison for the past week, was expected to agree to extradition to the United States, before a court hearing descended into confusion.
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He Knew He Would Be a Dancer, But Not Where It Might Lead
Alfred Gallman performed around the world, but he never had a home of his own, until he won a housing lottery and found his ‘own little corner’ in Queens.
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$950,000 Homes in California
A Craftsman-style cottage in Los Angeles, a three-bedroom apartment in San Francisco and a midcentury ranch in Novato.
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A New Lifeline for the Unseen: Homeless College Students
Osemenga Celey-Okogun, 19, a biology major at Medgar Evers College in Brooklyn, was prepared to drop out of school this semester for one reason: She was about to become homeless. Instead, Ms. Celey-Okogun joined 12 other students who recently moved ...
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Can My Apartment Building Really Ban Overnight Guests?
Even if no money changes hands, allowing guests to stay at your place when you’re not there could violate your lease and city laws.
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Tesla’s Direct Sales Model Helps It Thwart Customer Lawsuits
Sales contracts prevent buyers of the company’s electric cars from pursuing class-action suits if something goes wrong.
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They Created a Drug for Susannah. What About Millions of Other Patients?
Susannah Rosen, 8, spent much of her childhood in hospitals in New York City as doctors documented the gradual loss of her ability to stand, walk and see. But on a visit this October, her parents thought for the first time that she might leave the ...
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Who Controls Panettone? The Gold Rush Is On
Who owns panettone? In the last decade, the Christmas classic has burst its Italian borders and gained a global profile. Like Basque burnt cheesecake and French croissants, panettone is being tested and transformed far from home, with new flavors ...
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Going Whole Hog for a Noche Buena Tradition
The Monday morning after Thanksgiving, Rogelio Sierra, who goes by Roy, sat at a wooden desk at the front of his hog slaughterhouse, La Casa Sierra, answering dozens of calls from customers ordering whole pigs for Christmas Eve. “Tell me, papo. Four ...