#housingcrisis

[efsius1]

New age feudalism

[tamapalace]

HANATCHI, Y R U LIVING IN THERE

[smartestsilly]

Sorry you can't afford a house! Have you tried not eating avocado toast... or existing after 1990?

It’s “pull yourself up by your bootstraps,” but the boots cost $3,000 A MONTH, you need a credit score of 900, and your rent just tripled because a hedge fund bought your building from a guy named Ron who’s never stepped foot in it.

And then there's New York City, where your $2,500/month studio comes with “natural light” (a single bulb), a shared toilet with a family of raccoons, and the privilege of living in a walk-up where your upstairs neighbor does CrossFit at 2am.

But sure "The market will correct itself."

Cool, how long is that going to take asking as someone whose future house is going to be a cardboard box in times square?

We don’t have a housing crisis.

We have a greed crisis, a policy crisis, and a complete lack of shame from the people who caused it crisis, and it has made zillow my villain origin story.

[ozkaterji]

Tonight's episode of The Oz Katerji Show is up now on YouTube.

Tune in for a discussion with Simon Hunt from CityAM on why Britain doesn't build anything anymore, and stay to find out why we should declare war on golf courses.

Don't forget to like and subscribe!

[pennsyltuckyheathen]

The Supreme Court Will Soon Determine Whether Cities Can Punish People for Sleeping in Public When They Have Nowhere Else to Go | ACLU

Read our Q&A with Scout Katovich, staff attorney at the Trone Center for Justice and Equality, on the stakes of Grants Pass v. Johnson.

“With over 600,000 unhoused people and a shortfall of at least 200,000 shelter beds nationwide, hundreds of thousands of people have no choice but to sleep in public every night.”

[socialismforall]

US Homelessness Reaches Record Levels in 2023

Homelessness in the USA jumped 12% this year to an all-time high, according to a recent US government report. Most groups of color were disproportionately negatively impacted by the trend, families with children saw a 16% increase in homelessness, and certain states saw higher proportions of homelessness than others. The changes come amid a punishing housing market featuring surging rents and stubbornly overpriced for-sale houses.

While rents have begun to decline from recent peaks, and newly built houses have seen a drop in value of almost 20% in some markets, existing houses for resale have barely begun to budge, and wages haven’t kept pace with the increases. The median house price is now so high as effectively to lock out most buyers from the market, and higher interest rates are making mortgages more expensive than at any time in the last fifteen years.

Call it “Bidenomics”? The Democrats, for some reason, already are. (“Nothing will fundamentally change,” indeed.)

source: https://www.axios.com/2023/12/15/homelessness-increase-rent-crisis-2023 source: https://endhomelessness.org/homelessness-in-america/homelessness-statistics/state-of-homelessness/ source: https://vividmaps.com/homelessness-in-us/

[davidwfloydart]

Repurpose antiquated golf courses… The best time to destroy a golf course was 20 years ago. The second best time is now. #golfcourses #repurposing #housingcrisis #housingfirst #antiquatedideas #enviromentdesign (at Catalina Foothills, Arizona) https://www.instagram.com/p/ClW-jl6Sk-buA5Myab3zgmvw-eL_lQl0xXk-TU0/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[solarpunkpresentspodcast]

Today on the podcast, Ariel talks to Melissa Bowman, cofounder of the group Waterloo Region Yes In My Backyard (WRYIMBY) about what a YIMBY group is, what some actions are that it might take, the issues that it might address, and how to start up a YIMBY group in your area, if there’s not one already!