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

[MagnarTheGreat]

America's housing is pulling further out of reach, report finds

A new report confirms what many Americans suspect: housing for renters and buyers is increasingly hard to attain.

www.usatoday.com

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

In America, Low-Wage Jobs Are 'Homelessness Waiting to Happen'

Brian Goldstone’s book follows families as their jobs and dreams of upward mobility are interrupted by an inability to keep themselves housed.

www.rollingstone.com

 

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Say what???? Is that legal?

 

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[MagnarTheGreat]

Gov. Newsom signs housing bill overhauling California's landmark environmental law

Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed into law a bill that will remake California’s landmark environmental protection rules.

apnews.com

They can build all the mansions they want in CA: only people and capital who want to own multiple homes can afford to buy them. As the rich get wealthier they buy more homes and real estate while everyone else is left behind. CA is being gentrified from the inside out just like Hawaii and other highly sought locations.

 

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[MagnarTheGreat]

"There's been, I gather, some argument between the left of the party and people who are promoting the quote-unquote abundance agenda. Listen, those things are not contradictory. You want to deliver for people and make their lives better? You got to figure out how to do it," he said.

"I don't care how much you love working people. They can't afford a house because all the rules in your state make it prohibitive to build. And zoning prevents multifamily structures because of NIMBY," he said, referring to "not in my backyard" views. "I don't want to know your ideology, because you can't build anything. It does not matter."

NIMBY-ism has no ideological fault lines, it's across them all and global.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/arti...sm-under-tories-how-will-labour-change-things

The developed world has a housing crisis:

UN searches for solutions to global housing crisis

The UN’s urban development agency estimates that an astonishing 2.8 billion people worldwide lack access to adequate housing, secure land, and basic water and sanitation services – that’s around 40 per cent of the global population.

news.un.org

 

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Just a matter of time before 40 year mortgages are common everywhere.

 

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I'm sure being one of the worst states in the Union has nothing to do with it.

 

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