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

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Atlanta’s homelessness non-profits face ‘daunting’ future after federal grant pause

Local advocates dismayed after Trump halts funding while evaluating whether programs meet new agenda

www.theguardian.com

 

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Trump is really good at hurting a whole lot of people.

 

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“If Not for This, I’d Be Freezing to Death”: The Fight in Providence to Open a Temporary Shelter

How a pair of Providence city councilors bucked the mayor—and the trend of homelessness criminalization nationwide—to open an emergency shelter.

www.thenation.com

 

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Insurers Are Abandoning Homeowners Over Wildfire Risk But Investing in Big Oil

The firms invested half a trillion in fossil fuels, stoking the crisis that led them to dump thousands of homeowners.

truthout.org

 

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A look inside NYC’s ‘safe haven’ shelters, an alternative to sleeping in the streets and subway

Mayor Adams is looking add more alternative shelter beds across the city and help keep the unsheltered from sleeping in the streets and subway.

gothamist.com

 

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Insurers Are Abandoning Homeowners Over Wildfire Risk But Investing in Big Oil

The firms invested half a trillion in fossil fuels, stoking the crisis that led them to dump thousands of homeowners.

truthout.org

Because they only care about money.

 

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I don't think its going to be long before this madness gets felt.

 

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A school district's plan for rising rent and stagnant salaries: Teacher housing

In an effort to retain its educators in North Carolina’s most expensive city, Charlotte schools are planning on building housing and offering below market-rate rentals.

19thnews.org

 

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A school district's plan for rising rent and stagnant salaries: Teacher housing

In an effort to retain its educators in North Carolina’s most expensive city, Charlotte schools are planning on building housing and offering below market-rate rentals.

19thnews.org

Now that might actually work.

 

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Now that might actually work.

Good news for teachers, at least.

 

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Bluesky

bsky.app

 

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Trump tariffs could nearly triple lumber costs raising housing concerns

Proposed tariffs on Canada and Mexico could triple costs of lumber imports, some experts say, and hurt U.S. housing.

www.newsweek.com

 

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Nice to know there is still some goodness out there.

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

Should eviction attempts follow renters for life? PA weighs major change.

Advocates say sealing eviction records for renters who weren't evicted could make it easier for hundreds of thousands of Pennsylvanians to find housing.

www.spotlightpa.org

 

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Tenants demand protections as LA fires exacerbate housing crisis: ‘Huge source of stress’

Renters are not only facing an escalation in rent prices but also pressure to evict apartments from landlords

www.theguardian.com

 

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‘Poverty is not a crime’: outrage after California city passes law targeting homeless encampments

Fremont adopts sweeping law that bans camping on public property and makes ‘aiding, abetting’ encampments illegal

www.theguardian.com

 

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‘Poverty is not a crime’: outrage after California city passes law targeting homeless encampments

Fremont adopts sweeping law that bans camping on public property and makes ‘aiding, abetting’ encampments illegal

www.theguardian.com

Right. Because people wake up everyday saying, "Man, I can't wait to be homeless!'

 

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