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

[blueharvest]

Investors got big tax breaks to turn luxury Bay Area apartments into affordable housing. In many cases, rents are higher than before

The “essential housing” program has been a financial bonanza for the private developers and bankers, who earn millions in fees for each apartment complex bought.

www.mercurynews.com

 

[blueharvest]

4 predictions for the US housing market in 2025, according to Zillow

Zillow predicted that homebuyers would find better opportunities in the Southwest next year as more inventory in the region hits the market.

finance.yahoo.com

 

[blueharvest]

Homebuyer demand for mortgages jumped 6%, as interest rates fell to lowest level in over a month

Mortgage rates continued their decline to start this week, but nothing dramatic.

www.nbcnews.com

 

[blueharvest]

Share with parents or rent forever: ‘I have put life on hold while trying to buy a house’

Thanks to the housing crisis, Australians are learning to live together in ways previously associated with students and twentysomethings. Can we accept it as the new norm?

www.theguardian.com

 

[squeekness]

Share with parents or rent forever: ‘I have put life on hold while trying to buy a house’

Thanks to the housing crisis, Australians are learning to live together in ways previously associated with students and twentysomethings. Can we accept it as the new norm?

www.theguardian.com

This may be the new norm in the US as well. I can see siblings banding together to buy as well.

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

Manslaughter charge dropped as Daniel Penny jury deadlocks again. 2nd count in play

A judge agreed to dismiss the manslaughter charge in the trial of Daniel Penny, the former Marine accused of killing subway performer Jordan Neely with a chokehold in May 2023

www.nbcnewyork.com

 

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Manslaughter charge dropped as Daniel Penny jury deadlocks again. 2nd count in play

A judge agreed to dismiss the manslaughter charge in the trial of Daniel Penny, the former Marine accused of killing subway performer Jordan Neely with a chokehold in May 2023

www.nbcnewyork.com

I don't think he intended to kill that man anyhow.

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

 

[blueharvest]

I guess that's one way to help the housing crisis in this country.

 

[squeekness]

Better than a cardboard box.

 

[blueharvest]

Public housing didn’t fail in the US. But it was sabotaged.

A brief history of how America’s public housing experiment was designed to fail.

www.vox.com

 

[blueharvest]

 

[squeekness]

People suck.

 

[blueharvest]

Despite Trump’s claim, deportations likely wouldn’t ease housing crisis, most experts say • Stateline

The mass deportations of immigrants that President-elect Donald Trump has promised aren’t likely to make a dent in the nation’s housing crisis, many experts say, despite what he and his supporters claimed during his campaign.

stateline.org

 

[blueharvest]

As the Fed cuts, long-term interest rates rise

Ten-year Treasuries or 30-year mortgages have remained relatively high or even increased in recent months.

www.salon.com

 

[blueharvest]

Feeling at home? New app lets US homebuyers see neighbors’ politics

Oyssey startup allows users to access neighborhood political affiliations and other social data

www.theguardian.com

 

[blueharvest]

 

[blueharvest]

A public housing success story

Americans don’t have to look abroad for answers.

www.vox.com

 

[Lily Adler]

 

[squeekness]

What is wrong with people????

 

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