Linkage: dinosaur home tears apart California town

- Mortgage applications are up, and people are applying for bigger and bigger mortgages(mba.org)
- You and housing Secretary Ben Carson have the same attitude toward working on Fridays(nbcnews.com)
- Not enough room to build housing? Just build an island (cnbc.com)
- A media mogul is terrorizing a California small town...with a house that looks like it's from the Flintstones(nytimes.com)
- If you're in Phoenix, Zillow will let you tour some houses without an agent(inman.com)
- Point, a company that lets you sell your home equity, raised a ton of VC money(housingwire.com)
- Citi fined $25 million for discriminating against potential borrowers(reuters.com)
- Facebook would literally let advertisers redline neighborhoods(mpamag.com)
- Amazon plugs itself into the guts of the global payments system(techcrunch.com)
- Presidential hopefuls plan monthly renter tax credit(citylab.com)