Health10/8/2025The Guardian

From the archive: The Blackstone rebellion: how one country took on the world’s biggest commercial landlord – podcast

From the archive: The Blackstone rebellion: how one country took on the world’s biggest commercial landlord – podcast

The article discusses the Blackstone rebellion, where a country took on the world's biggest commercial landlord. Blackstone, a giant asset management firm, had been targeting places where people worked and shopped, and then started buying up people's homes. This sparked a ferocious backlash in one country. The article is a classic piece from the Guardian's long read archives, and the author, Hettie O'Brien, provides a new introduction. The podcast version is read by Evelyn Miller.

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