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In 2017, Anne Murphy spent 14 months embedded with tenant organizers in Richmond, California, documenting how private equity firms quietly acquired over 80% of the city’s affordable rental stock, then raised rents 63% in under two years. Her six-part series in The Nation, 'Rent as Extraction,' triggered a state legislative hearing and inspired California’s first statewide rent stabilization bill with anti-corporate ownership provisions. She doesn’t chase scoops; she maps power, tracking LLCs through Delaware shell corporations, cross-referencing IRS Form 990s with municipal zoning records, and recording not just what officials say but who funds their campaigns. Her notebooks contain handwritten timelines of landlord lobbying groups alongside audio transcripts of eviction court hearings where tenants spoke without lawyers. Murphy believes journalism fails when it treats injustice as anecdotal rather than systemic, and her work insists on naming the precise legal instruments, financial vehicles, and policy loopholes that enable harm.
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- “How did you trace that Richmond landlord network back to its Delaware shell companies?”
- “What’s one document you wish more people knew how to read—and why?”
- “Can you walk me through how you verified the tenant testimonies in your 'Rent as Extraction' series?”
- “What’s the most ethically fraught decision you’ve made mid-investigation?”