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☆ 'Thrown to the wolves': How private investors are jacking up rents and ripping off college students
  + stars: | 2023-09-20 | by ( James Rodriguez | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +19 min
The eye-popping numbers are part of a longer-term shift toward private college housing. Moody's Analytics recently warned of an "affordability crisis" for college students, noting that since 2019, rents for student housing in a sample of notable college towns had grown faster than those of regular apartments. Student housing goes privateThe gold rush in student housing is a relatively new phenomenon. Back in the 1980s and '90s, most college students either lived in bland, cinder-block-walled dorms or in conventional apartments farther from campus. Even with his frugality, he came to realize that the prices in West Campus were "impossible to rationalize" for a college student.
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☆ Many Americans think of education and transportation as public goods, but they're actually heavily privatized. Here's why that's a problem.
  + stars: | 2022-01-29 | by ( Paul Constant | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +6 min
Cohen said the privatization of public goods like education won't benefit the majority of Americans. Many fields that ordinary Americans assume to be public goods — public education, libraries, public transportation — don't fit that strict description. "In that definition, healthcare is a private good, not a public good," Cohen said. We're all familiar with the trickle-down claim that under a profit motive, business can provide public goods more efficiently than the government. "The alternative of private control over public goods is public control over public goods," he said.
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