“I’m not a housing provider,” says Stephanie Diamond, founder of the Listings Project. “We’re a listing platform; that’s what we are, that’s the best we can do... I want to help as much as I can. But I can’t help as much as I used to.”
Diamond considers the Listings Project to be both a community and a form of— a collaborative, socially engaged discipline that works with people as its medium. Over the years, she has implemented a number of measures to try to ensure that it operates as “a respectful, life-affirming, and justice-focused community.” The staff vets all the listings, looking not just for scams and illegal fees but discriminatory or problematic language, like calling an area “.
“The worst part is when people are like, ‘How can you share these rents, they’re exorbitant,’” says Diamond. “People who have been on it for 15 years are like, ‘Listings Project has really changed.’ We want to have apartments that are market rate or lower, and if we don’t allow the market-rate ones, then …” She pauses. “I know I’m doing good, but I have this shame. The market is disgusting.”
Diamond decided to leave New York in large part because she had never really lived anywhere else, save for the four years she spent at the Rhode Island School of Design, and she was tired of being inundated by memories. “I have a photographic memory and it’s triggered by the visual. By the time I was 40, I was just overstimulated. I wanted to live in the present.
“When I first started receiving the newsletters, it really did feel like a place where the rent was more reasonable, where you didn’t have to pay a broker’s fee and you were interacting with another human being, not a management company, but at this point it’s just as bad as StreetEasy,” said Alex Nelson, a photographer who’d been looking for a one-bedroom. “There are no brokers, but you’re dealing with the same kind of greed.
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