SVB bailouts for everyone — except affordable housing projects

Even the shareholders got billions.

7 min readApr 15, 2023

A glass-and-steel, high-tech office building. Atop it is a cartoon figure of Humpty Dumpty, whose fall has been arrested by masses of top-hatted financiers, who hold fast to a rope that keeps him in place. At the foot of the office tower is heaped rubble. On top of the rubble is another Humpty Dumpty figure, this one shattered and dripping yolk. Protruding from the rubble are modest multi-family housing units. Image: Lydia (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Vicroft_Court_Starley

There’s only two days left in the Kickstarter campaign for the audiobook of my next novel, a post-cyberpunk anti-finance finance thriller about Silicon Valley scams called Red Team Blues. Amazon’s Audible refuses to carry my audiobooks because they’re DRM free, but crowdfunding makes them possible.

SVB bailouts for everyone — except affordable housing projects

Even the shareholders got billions.

Written by Cory Doctorow