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https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/mar/26/cannes-english-councils-property-developers-housing
#Housing #England #UkPol #LabourPolicy
https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-gets-bad-news-americans-about-housing-market-2049831
Americans might be losing confidence in President Donald Trump's impact on the housing market as the majority of households prepare for rent and mortgage rate hikes.
#Trump #housing #realestate #press
Donald Trump Gets Bad News From Americans About Housing Market
A new report from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York found that households expect 30-year mortgage rates to increase to a median of 7 percent a year from now.Suzanne Blake (Newsweek)
https://www.opb.org/article/2025/03/22/oregon-churches-land-housing-units-bill/
#ORpol #Oregon #Housing #Urbanism
Oregon churches want housing units on their land. This bill would help cover the initial costs
Oregon legislators are now considering House Bill 2964, which would provide loans and grants for nonprofits looking to build affordable housing on their land by covering those initial costs.Joni Land (OPB)
https://joycevance.substack.com/p/the-people-trump-and-doge-hurt
"when fair #housing groups lose... funding, a lot of people suffer as a result...
This isn’t about making #government more effective. It’s about #cruelty. That’s the point... leaving families without a #safety net and putting countless lives and futures at risk. The freeze would have devastating consequences for millions of #Americans, regardless of political affiliation."
#ElonMusk #Musk #Doge #Trump #GOP #USPol #News #US #USA
The People Trump and DOGE Hurt
Four members of the National Fair Housing Alliance (NFHA) filed a lawsuit against the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) after HUD, with no warning, terminated Fair Housing Initiatives…Joyce Vance (Civil Discourse with Joyce Vance)
Secure accommodation at a distance;
Offer it to families & households needing accommodation;
When they (not unreasonably) refuse as it will wrench them out of important & supportive family & social networks (and schools for children), declare they have made themselves 'intentionally homeless' & wash your hands of them.
#homeless #housing
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/mar/15/labour-enfield-homeless-council-housing
Here’s why Australia should build more smaller houses rather than fewer big ones https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/mar/13/heres-why-australia-should-build-more-smaller-houses-rather-than-fewer-big-ones?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
Gone are the days when a ‘good job’ gets you a house – and now we have the data to prove it https://www.theguardian.com/business/grogonomics/2025/mar/12/gone-are-the-days-when-a-good-job-gets-you-a-house-and-now-we-have-the-data-to-prove-it?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
Its worth stressing (again) that only a massive increase in social housing (either built or re-purposed) can start to alleviate the problems of the UK dysfunctional housing market!
(and ending the Right to Buy!)
#housing
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/mar/09/uk-housing-associations-accused-of-mis-selling-affordable-homes-as-service-charges-soar-by-up-to-400
Without a major rethink of how we manage housing in this country, fiddling round the edges of a market built on the expectation of inflationary prices will never solve the social problem of unaffordable dwellings!
#housing #politics
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/mar/01/residents-trapped-with-service-charges-of-up-to-8000-a-year-to-take-legal-action-against-government
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So, on the face of it this might look like good news.... but, equally a loosening of constraints, alongside continued record house prices, also means the number of people with a stake in maintaining those prices has (again) risen!
#housing #inequality
h/t FT
WE MUST REBUILD SOCIAL HOUSING...
Lets hope Angela Rayner is focussed on hosing as she claims & can deliver if not the 1.5M houses she promises, a good proportion of that in social housing!
#housing
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/feb/13/margaret-thatcher-council-housing-selloff-2024
Apparently, when Keir Starmer makes announcement about the progress of Labour's New Town Taskforce, he will tell us that 100 places have applied to access the New Town funding.... they will now be assessed, not least on the extent of available (proximate) infrastructure.
How quickly & how far this will contribute to the plane to deliver 1.5m extra homes remains to be seen...
#Housing #NewTowns
h/t FT
The big developers will claim they can offer better accommodation (broadband etc.) but really its just one more sector where consolidation into oligopoly is underway.
#universities #students #housing
Despite the puff of their press release, this is just another #Labour consultation with an ambition to achieve it by 2030.
Less talk, more action needed.
#Retrofit
#Housing
#EnergyEfficiency
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/warm-homes-and-cheaper-bills-as-government-accelerates-plan-for-change
Warm homes and cheaper bills as government accelerates Plan for Change
Households across the country are set to benefit from cheaper bills and warmer homes as the government accelerates its Plan for Change.Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (GOV.UK)
1. Reform taxes;
2. Transform empty buildings;
3. Build public housing;
4. Use land well
[better]5. Build sustainably;
6. Build beautifully.
'The prize is to make, through the places where people live, a better version of the society we have now'!
Its a sensible plan but not one that looks like it would be adopted in its entirety, although elements are emerging as policy (ish)!
#housing #politics
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/feb/01/peace-permanence-and-affordable-prices-six-ways-to-solve-britains-housing-crisis
Our housing crisis is driven by a lack of supply meeting slackness of credit, which drives up nominal prices & increases the multiple of wages (in 'low wage Britain') required to secure a home of your own.
It just madness!
#housing #inflation
Of course, that the DWP was acting to help landlords should have come as no surprise to anyone given the centrality of Landlordism to the country's political class & the subsequent normalisation of landlords prejudices (against tenants).
#housing #DWP #politics
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/jan/26/dwp-program-that-automatically-approves-landlord-benefit-deduction-requests-ruled-unlawful
Call your GOP Congressperson and tell them that we demand he build housing for Americans immediately. He can start in Los Angeles.
#Gaza #Genocide #EthnicCleansing #RaiseTheBar #Housing #DemandMore #uspol #USPolitics #Inflation #LowerCosts #FascistTakeover
The simple truth is that Donald Trump gave a major speech, the first speech of his second presidency,
and ignored almost every significant issue facing the working families of this country.
How crazy is that?
Our #healthcare system is broken, is dysfunctional and is wildly expensive.
We remain the only wealthy nation not to guarantee healthcare for all.
Not one word from Trump about how he is going to address the healthcare crisis.
We pay, by far, the highest prices in the world for #prescription #drugs
– sometimes 10 times more than the people in other countries
– and one out of four Americans is unable to afford the prescriptions that their doctors prescribe.
Not one word from Donald Trump on the high cost of prescription drugs.
We have 800,000 Americans who are #homeless and millions of our people spend 50% or 60% of their limited income on housing.
We have a major #housing crisis in America
– everyone knows it.
And Trump, in his inaugural address, did not devote one word to it.
Today in America, we have more income and wealth #inequality than we have ever had.
The wealthiest three people in America now own more wealth than the bottom half of our society.
But Trump had nothing to say about the growing gap between the very rich and everybody else.
And maybe that’s because he had those three people – the three wealthiest people in America – sitting right behind him at his inauguration.
And, I should add, those three people – if you can believe it – saw their wealth increase by more than $233bn since the November elections.
No wonder they were sitting right behind Trump. They couldn’t be happier.
During his inaugural speech, Trump did not have one word to say about how we are going to address the planetary crisis of #climate ##change.
The last 10 years have been the warmest ever recorded, and extreme weather disturbances and natural disasters are taking place all over the world
– from California to India, across Europe to North Carolina. Not one word about climate change
– except, of course, to make it clear that he intends to make this horrific situation even worse with “drill, baby, drill”.
Brilliant.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jan/23/bernie-sanders-trump-inauguration-speech?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
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As inflation, price gouging, and skyrocketing home prices have affected the nation, the city of Seattle has become increasingly hostile to low-income and middle-class populations.Chuffed
Beyond #philosophy and #psychology, I'm interested in #feminism, radical politics and history, wonky public policy (esp. about #housing, #cities, and #education), #technology and #politics, and getting lost in Wikipedia. (Languages: EN/PT/ES)
#LACounty #housing #evictions #wildfires #PalisadesFire #EatonFire
Los Angeles County - Board of Supervisors
The Board of Supervisors is the five-member governing body of the County of Los Angeles, a charter county. Members are elected by voters in their respective districts and are limited to three four-year terms.YouTube
Huge drop in number of refugees resettled in Ireland within a year, report finds - EUROPE SAYS
An annual report on asylum and migration in Ireland, published by the European Migration Network (EMN) yesterday, saidEUROPE SAYS (EUROPESAYS.COM)
Huge drop in number of refugees resettled in Ireland within a year, report finds
An annual report on asylum and migration in Ireland, published by the European Migration Network (EMN) yesterday, said 130 Syrians were resettled in Ireland in 2023 under international obligations.BYTESEU (Bytes Europe)
#housing #inequality #Spain
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jan/20/a-vicious-circle-how-the-roof-blew-off-spains-housing-crisis
Inhaltswarnung: EXPLAINED: France's new rules on energy ratings for property owners
"Judy Rebick, writer and producer:👉 “If cats and dogs were living in the conditions shown in this secret video, people would be up in arms. How can we tolerate homeless people in Toronto [this is across Canada not only Toronto] sleeping in conditions worse than a UN refugee camp?”
#News #Canada #Housing #Health
https://rabble.ca/columnists/homelessness-time-to-show-whats-behind-the-closed-doors-of-shelters/
Homelessness. Time to show what’s behind the closed doors of shelters - rabble.ca
Those experiencing homelessness should not be treated as things to be stored, but as the human beings that they are.Cathy Crowe (rabble)
Yes, I can't think of anything that could possibly go wrong with that.
#2008FinancialCrisis
And even if it doesn't lead to financial meltdown, it will surely have the effect of inflating house prices.
How does that help first-time buyers?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cdryy33v13ko
#Housing #Mortgages
Mortgage rules could be eased to boost lending
The £100 limit on contactless cards could also be scrapped, as regulators respond to the prime minister's plea.Kevin Peachey (BBC News)
To be considered for the program, residents need to first apply to 211 LA for housing assistance
Residents who have already applied through 211 LA do not to need to fill out another application.
Application link here:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeffO_8LNOoB-LEwdNHBg6pq6Le3bicFMSmxKUb-JZhaHBJyg/viewform
#EatonFire #PalisadesFire #housing #LACounty #LACity
Emergency Services Request
Support for Those Affected by the Greater Los Angeles Wildfires Our hearts go out to everyone impacted by the devastating wildfires across Greater Los Angeles. If you have been affected, you may be eligible for Emergency Services.Google Docs
https://x.com/afshinrattansi/status/1879119336046260690
#health
#poverty
#socialism
#capitalism
#communism
#classwar
#democracy
#humanrights
#austerity
#socialwork
#slavery
#resistance
#housing
#homelessness
by Judd Legum and Noel Sims, Jan 14, 2025
"The devastating fires in Los Angeles have killed 24 people. The fires have burned tens of thousands of acres, and hundreds of thousands of #Angelenos have been forced to evacuate. The blaze has destroyed at least 12,000 structures and thousands of people have nowhere to live.
"For most people, this is a horrific tragedy. But numerous landlords in the area are treating it as a #MoneyMaking opportunity.
"A review of rental listings revealed dozens of properties where the landlords have sharply increased their prices since the fires began on January 7. Popular Information used Zillow to identify rental homes in communities near the areas impacted by the fires — including #PacificPalisades, #SantaMonica, #ManhattanBeach, #HuntingtonBeach, and the #SanFernandoValley — that have increased their asking price over the last week.
"While not every rent increase is evidence of #exploitation, the timing and scale of many increases strongly suggest #PriceGouging is occurring.
"In Manhattan Beach, for example, Popular Information identified a five-bedroom home listed on December 31, 2024, for $8,750 per month. By Monday, the rent was bumped up 125 percent to $19,750 monthly.
"But it is not only luxury properties with ocean views whose prices have skyrocketed in the last week.
"A three-bedroom home in #Tujunga, listed for $4,100 on December 28, was increased to $8,500 on January 7, the day the Pacific Palisades fire broke out, 93 percent higher than its initial listing price."
Read more:
https://popular.info/p/landlords-gouge-victims-of-la-fires
#PredatoryLandlords #CapitalismKills #CapitalismMustDie #RentGouging #Unhoused #California #UnaffordableHousing #Housing
"LA Rental Hits $40,000 a Month as #LAFires Worsen #Housing Squeeze"
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-01-14/la-rental-hits-40-000-a-month-as-fires-worsen-housing-squeeze
Wildfires Worsen LA Housing Squeeze as Rental Hits $40,000 a Month
Los Angeles already had a housing affordability crisis before devastating wildfires burned entire neighborhoods to the ground. The disaster is making it worse.John Gittelsohn (Bloomberg)
"LA Rental Hits $40,000 a Month as #LAFires Worsen #Housing Squeeze"
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-01-14/la-rental-hits-40-000-a-month-as-fires-worsen-housing-squeeze
Wildfires Worsen LA Housing Squeeze as Rental Hits $40,000 a Month
Los Angeles already had a housing affordability crisis before devastating wildfires burned entire neighborhoods to the ground. The disaster is making it worse.John Gittelsohn (Bloomberg)
https://oag.ca.gov/contact/consumer-complaint-against-business-or-company
https://laist.com/news/housing-homelessness/los-angeles-palisades-fire-housing-rent-price-gouging-law-california-zillow-listing
#eatonFire #PalisadesFire #Housing #PriceGouging
Asking rents skyrocket as LA fires destroy homes
For one listing, rent jumped nearly 86% since September. In an interview with LAist, the agent said she told her client, “People are desperate, and you can probably get good money.”David Wagner (LAist)
New research from the Resolution Foundation.
#Rents #Poverty #Housing #UKPolitics
https://www.resolutionfoundation.org/publications/whose-price-is-it-anyway/
Whose price is it anyway? • Resolution Foundation
A long-standing finding is that British households on low-to-middle incomes are poorer than their counterparts in many advanced economies.[1] This result comes from comparing the incomes of this group to price levels in their respective countries.Resolution Foundation
This is hardly surprising, but reinforces the need to urgently find some way to start to resolve the housing crisis... there's n shortage of ideas, just a lack of real action!
#housing #poverty
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/jan/13/uk-low-middle-income-families-poorer-oecd-counterparts-study-western-europe
We have learned nothing. #Housing #Altadena #Palisades