#housing-affordability-crisis

[ follow ]
#supply-shortage #zoning-reform #legislative-policy #co-living-and-boarding-houses #income-inequality
East Bay real estate
fromwww.housingwire.com
2 days ago

Rhode Island housing package targets zoning, parking and SROs

Rhode Island implements its sixth legislative housing package, including boarding houses and co-living, to address severe affordability crisis driven by decades of underbuilding and historic low inventory.
Miscellaneous
fromSan Jose Spotlight
5 days ago

Silicon Valley tech economy is hot, but not everyone benefits - San Jose Spotlight

Silicon Valley's economy boomed 38% in a decade with record innovation, yet extreme wealth inequality leaves half of households owning just 1% of regional wealth and requiring outside assistance.
fromwww.housingwire.com
1 week ago

Trump's housing plan must go deeper than lower mortgage rates

NAA-NMHC research shows we need to build 4.3 million more apartments by 2035 to meet demand. To date, the Trump Administration has implemented a number of pro-housing, common-sense policies from easing burdensome regulations to eliminating barriers that slow development which are important steps in the right direction. Yet now more than ever is the time for decisive and transformational action.
US politics
Silicon Valley
fromThe Mercury News
1 week ago

Record wealth. Record costs. Here's Silicon Valley by the numbers

Silicon Valley's wealth concentration widens as investment income surges, creating stark disparities in housing affordability and demographic decline among lower-income residents.
Silicon Valley
fromwww.mercurynews.com
1 week ago

Silicon Valley is richer than ever. Fewer residents are sharing in it.

Silicon Valley's wealth increasingly concentrates among affluent residents through investment ownership, while wage earners struggle despite six-figure incomes, widening economic inequality.
Philosophy
fromFast Company
2 months ago

The economy of self-the value of viewing yourself as a personal economic ecosystem

Individuals should cultivate a personal economic ecosystem—the Economy of Self—to protect and advance financial stability amid labor disruption, housing shortages, and rapid technological change.
Real estate
fromBusiness Insider
5 months ago

Cape Cod has an affordable housing problem. Could taxing the wealthy fix it?

Barnstable County proposes a 2% real estate transfer fee on sales over $2 million to fund affordable year‑round housing, projected to raise $56 million annually.
[ Load more ]