#housing-crisis

#housing-crisis

Eunice Osei is a proud, reserved woman, but give her time and she will say: I've not been treated fairly. Then she'll cry. The crime is her room, a tiny hutch crammed with a kitchenette, toilet, bed and flimsy chipboard furniture. Clothes, kitchen utensils and suitcases are stacked so high against the grimy windows that light struggles to enter. We are swathed in murk, with nowhere to sit and hardly anywhere to stand.

Indeed, residents of Puerto Rico say that living here is an "extreme sport" because we juggle the lack of dependable infrastructure, frequent power and water outages, political corruption stemming from centuries of colonialism, abysmal healthcare, and other daily reminders of the extreme inequity that is the reality of the Global South, with the freedom to travel and the consumerist economy that are the hallmarks of Global North living. But we still fight hard for the right to remain.

Carlos Fernandes is proud of the metalwork he does on Dutch superyachts that sail the world. But the Portuguese migrant worker was surprised to hear he might be paying hundreds of euros too much in monthly rent for his family's apartment. We found it and we moved in, he said. It should be between 800 and 1,115 but we are paying 1,380.

Revealed during the International Astronautical Congress in Sydney, Charlotte is a six leg construction robot from Crest Robotics that targets speed as the central problem. The makers say the machine can complete the shell of a 200 square meter (2,150 square foot) dwelling in about 24 hours. Coverage compares that output to 100 bricklayers over the same period. The idea pairs a walking chassis with an under carriage fabrication system so the body hovers over the wall path while the legs step the machine forward.

You spy a dishy stranger across a bar. The attraction is instant. The urges are strong. What do you do? I assume that I'm being honeytrapped by a government organisation, because that would never happen to me. No, you take them back to yours. Or you would, except that you're gen Z, and as such you still live with your parents. Ah yes, nothing kills ardour like trying to sneak upstairs to a single bed in your childhood bedroom while your parents watch Newsnight.

Absolutely - we will have a campaign going to register. Lots of young people are coming up and engaging with us. Quite a lot of young people are in despair and it is important to give hope. They are in despair over the housing crisis. They are in despair over the war in Ukraine and the Russian invasion. They are in despair over genocide.

"The challenges the State faces today in the delivery of housing and infrastructure are being compounded by the utilisation of our laws in certain circumstances to delay, obfuscate and undermine the efficient delivery of vital projects which would benefit our communities and the common good as a whole," he warned. "In particular, the utilisation of judicial reviews to prevent the delivery of vital accommodation, transport or environmental projects because of technical breaches of statutory rules or procedure is abhorrent to the common good.

Communist East Germany's high-rise prefab residential blocks and their political and cultural impact in what was one of the biggest social housing experiments in history is the focus of a new art exhibition, in which the unspoken challenges of today's housing crisis loom large. Wohnkomplex (living complex) Art and Life in Prefabs explores the legacy of the collective experience of millions of East Germans, as well as serving as a poignant reminder that the housing question, whether under dictatorship or democracy, is far from being solved.

Beginning 4:00 am Wednesday, the Oakland Police Department will be removing the public's access to its radio communications for the first time in more than 100 years. This raises concerns about transparency and accountability since the department has been marred with scandals over the past few decades. There are currently two unclaimed Powerball lottery tickets worth $1.16 million that were purchased in the Bay Area. One ticket was purchased at a 7-11 in Milpitas and the other at a Mobil gas station in Pleasant Hill.

As the housing crisis and wealth inequality emerge as top issues for voters in New York City, mayoral hopeful Zohran Mamdani has called for higher taxes on the rich to pay for services and famously suggested that billionaires should not exist. Mamdani's viral campaign handily defeated Andrew Cuomo, New York's former governor, in a Democratic primary earlier this year. As expected, billionaires and billionaire-owned companies such as Airbnb and DoorDash are now spending big to defeat Mamdani and influence the race.

The film 'Materialists' highlights the intersection of romance and practicality, where financial security plays a pivotal role in modern dating. This reflects a societal shift in how relationships are perceived amid economic challenges.

Thousands of people have had their homes seized after receiving controversial no-fault eviction notices despite Labour pledging to abolish them, new data shows. Labour said in its election manifesto it would abolish Section 21 eviction notices immediately after winning the election. A year on, and the relevant legislation still progressing through parliament means that the ban is still not in effect. According to Ministry of Justice figures released on Thursday, 11,400 households received no-fault evictions by bailiffs in the year to June.

The Los Angeles City Council has given final approval to a sweeping rezoning plan to meet state-mandated housing goals, clearing the path for an additional 255,000 homes to be built.

"Somewhere last night in New York City, a single mother and her children slept at a homeless shelter because you, assemblyman @ZohranKMamdani are occupying her rent controlled apartment."

"Lack of affordable new housing, urban planning issues, touristification through platforms like Airbnb and digital nomads are key drivers," Arturo Aispuro, an urban planning expert, tells The Art Newspaper.

Rose and Chris Murray built their home in Bohermeen without planning permission in 2007. They faced a 20-year legal battle with Meath County Council.

In 2018, Jefferson Union went to the voters of Daly City to ask them to fund a $33 million bond to build workforce housing on a large lot the district owned near Interstate 280.

ITV News cameras have caught 200 cyclists jumping red lights at rush hour in the space of just 60 minutes, highlighting a growing issue of cycling safety in London.

Jade Kendall carries her wheelchair-bound daughter up three flights of stairs in Bermondsey following major surgery, facing a precarious situation without proper assistance from Southwark Council.

"I'm so sorry that this has struck a chord with so many of you" as she refers to her song about the financial crash and its severe repercussions.

Habitacion.com allows young individuals to purchase individual rooms, helping them to save money and invest in property, ultimately leading to homeownership.

"Her sole job was making sure housing is expensive and that we all rent for the rest of our lives," read the original post portraying LePatner - a Jewish mom of two - as the face of unaffordable housing.

"My professional life is great," Singh told the Standard, "but my living situation is, like, the total opposite."

Trusting my instincts, I reached for the Narcan I always carried in my backpack. Within minutes, the man regained consciousness. When I offered to call emergency services, he shook his head.

The longer the charred landscape from over 6,800 destroyed structures sits, the more glaring the lack of transparency is in a city dogged by a housing shortage.