Anyone hit by the housing crisis – an increasing number of us – has little patience for tinkering around the edges of the UK's dysfunctional and geographically distorted housing system.
The report underscores how deeply the foreclosure crisis has distorted American housing.
(Anderson) Digitalism (Friday) This in-demand production team has worked its mad science on hits from Cut Copy, the White Stripes and Red Hot Chili Peppers, weaving those rock hits into twisted, distorted bleats of house music.
He looks suddenly wistful at the demise of the brand: "It was a distorted, crazy, fun house mirror, a look into Australia's subconscious, the good and the bad".
At 6 30 p.m., Mercury Lounge, 217 East Houston Street, at Ludlow Street, Lower East Side, (800) 745-3000, mercuryloungenyc.com; $15. (Anderson) Digitalism (D.J. set) (Friday) This in-demand German production duo has worked its mad science on hits from Cut Copy, the White Stripes and Red Hot Chili Peppers, weaving their rock tracks into twisted, distorted bleats of house music.
Research from the Future of London policy network and Smith Institute think tank published in July warned that the staggering growth in overseas investment "creates the risk of another housing bubble and is pricing out local people," and is partly responsible for the capital's "distorted and dysfunctional" housing market.
Home Truths, which was researched by Oxford Economics, described the current housing market as "distorted and dysfunctional" with the average house price nearly 11 times the average salary and more than 4 million people on waiting lists for social housing.
It's composed of equal parts Seventies funk, the cheesy wing of filter disco, acid house's distorted beats and hip hop's battering rhythms.
There are also fun houses where distorted mirrors make you fat or thin and slide you around scarily in a vortex you can't exit.
Mr. Schneider recreated a distorted version of his parents' house in Rheydt, Germany, but he upended the notion of house.
