🌎 Discussion: Housing, Homelessness, Urban Development, Gentrification, and Other Housing Issues

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That's not right.

 

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You'd think there'd be laws against that sort of thing...

 

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Experts: Harris proposal could ease housing crisis

Harris wants to defeat housing crisis with rent controls and incentives to build.

www.salon.com

 

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California sues Los Angeles suburb for temporary ban on homeless shelters

Suit, part of Newsom’s effort to push back on what he sees as defiance of state laws, alleges ban violates fair housing laws

www.theguardian.com

 

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Homebuyers face difficult housing market under Trump presidency

A second Trump's presidency is unlikely to offer much relief to Americans struggling with soaring home prices, low supply, and high mortgage rates, experts say.

www.newsweek.com

 

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Homebuyers face difficult housing market under Trump presidency

A second Trump's presidency is unlikely to offer much relief to Americans struggling with soaring home prices, low supply, and high mortgage rates, experts say.

www.newsweek.com

Yay. I'm sure the regulations about corporations buying up the cheaper houses is dead.

 

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Under Trump that won't last long.

 

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New York City poised to end broker fees for new tenants in cost-cutting move

Move would significantly lower upfront expenses for renters in city with one of the world’s highest costs of living

www.theguardian.com

 

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California’s unhoused people protest US supreme court order: ‘Not going to push us out of view’

In Berkeley, advocates, activists and unsheltered people are staging a last-ditch effort to claim safe public space

www.theguardian.com

 

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Why so many empty homes? Rent too high?

 

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AI landlord screening tool will stop scoring low-income tenants after discrimination suit

SafeRent will also pay around $2.3 million.

www.theverge.com

 

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Cities Say They Store Property Taken From Homeless Encampments. People Rarely Get Their Things Back.

Storage programs are meant to protect people’s property rights and allow them to reclaim their possessions. But they rarely accomplish either objective, according to a ProPublica investigation of cities with the largest homeless populations.

www.propublica.org

 

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Massachusetts will phase out use of hotels and motels to shelter homeless families, governor says

Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey has announced that the state's reliance on hotels and motels to shelter homeless people will be phased out in the next couple of years.

apnews.com

 

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Home sales tick up amidst good economic news ahead of the holidays

The National Association of Realtors monthly Pending Home Sales Index reached its highest level since March last month, with rises in every region of the country.

www.scrippsnews.com

 

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The tariffs will make just building anything more expensive.

 

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The affordable housing shortage is reshaping parts of rural America

A surge in home prices over the past several years is pushing homebuyers further out from city centers with big implications for America's small towns.

www.nbcnews.com

 

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Trump’s next HUD secretary would have a lot to do to address the history of racist housing policy – and Trump’s own comments and history suggest that’s unlikely

Donald Trump’s false claims about Haitian immigrants echo an enduring element in the history of American housing − that certain people don’t belong in certain neighborhoods.

theconversation.com

 

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Redefining hospitality: the Kentucky hotel tackling America’s homeless crisis

A group of housing advocates took over the Arthur Street Hotel – with a focus on housing first and treatment later

www.theguardian.com

 

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They shouldn't even be building new homes in these areas, knowing they are at such high risk. I don't blame the insurance companies for charging high rates in certain places.