#Housing

Folks need to pay closer attention to housing reclamation struggles. That area of the work is going to explode next year out of necessity. It will be a major site
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The fight to avert climate change is rooted in a very fundamental drive: protecting the places we call home.Protecting them from the rising tides, the raging fires, the roiling storms,
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I know how much Disabled folks are hated within Planning & Engineering ‘cos when I worked at one city that codified within their strategic plan “Disability Justice,” & I championed
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Our Housing Delivery Taskforce report is out today.Research by @Shelter and @Savills has found that 244k jobs could be lost in construction, and 84k fewer homes built in just one
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Controversial opinion. Income is not wealth. Labour need to tackle unearned wealth more urgently than earned income. Doing stuff round the edges for higher income and leaving wealth untouched is
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A few thoughts on living wage estimates:1. Estimates that only calculate costs for 1 adult ignore the reality that A LOT of people support loved ones, even if they're not
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Just starting: #AREUEA2021 session on affordable housing. First up, Doug McManus & co-authors look at geographic patterns of housing filtering. Key findings: MSAs vary widely in income filtering rates (income
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One of the most horrible things I heard about the House of Lords was from Nat Wei, a Conservative peer who is involved in Bristol’s housing. He said that when
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Work in progress. Decided to chart 'absolute' child poverty on the current official definition back to 1961 to illustrate why it is not absolute and why you shouldn't use it
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Interesting debate at #BrooklineTownMeeting tonight over whether to allow micro-units (apartments under 500 sq ft) to be built in town. A few of my observations, as someone who supports micro-units
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People seeking sanctuary are being dumped in disused army barracks. It’s detention in all but name. Conditions are inhumane, traumatising and putting lives at risk. @ukhomeoffice must #CloseTheBarracks https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/
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This article is atrocious.https://slate.com/business/2020/12/cities-luxury-apartments-condos-pandemic.html It contains a lot of broad statements with no actual support. There's no evidence that people are leaving cities en masse. Vacanc
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In housing debates, I feel like the second fundamental welfare theorem gets a Rodney Dangerfield level of respect. This was a great NYT article about evictions near Springfield, MA https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/18/us/evictions-pandemic.ht
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Think a root cause of some of the bad housing and climate discourse On Here is that a bunch of folks on the left have an ideological need to identify
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Join me today on a thought experiment: Kansas City’s Affordable Housing program presents the idea of finding $75,000,000 for an Affordable Housing Fund, and the need to create 5,000 new
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Delighted to share on @thecurrency the results of some of my research over the last few yrs on Irish housing prices since WW2. The paper on which it's based is
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