Saturday, December 21

Tag: social housing

U.S. Homeless Count Surges 12% to Highest-Recorded Level
15Dec By adminNo Comments
World

U.S. Homeless Count Surges 12% to Highest-Recorded Level

Updated Dec. 15, 2023 3:33 pm ETThe U.S. count of homeless people surged to the highest level on record, reaching more than 653,000 people early this year as Covid-19 pandemic-aid spending faded, new federal data show.The increase reflects a collision of factors: rising housing costs; limited affordable housing units; the opioid epidemic; and the expired pandemic-era aid that had helped keep people in their homes, federal officials said Friday. A surge of migrants into shelters in places such as New York City, Massachusetts and Chicago also contributed to the challenge.Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
Read More
Why It Took 17 Years to Build 49 Housing Units in Los Angeles
13Dec By adminNo Comments
World

Why It Took 17 Years to Build 49 Housing Units in Los Angeles

Listen to article(2 minutes)A Los Angeles nonprofit was given government land in January 2007 to build a few dozen units of affordable housing. They’re finally hoping to open the building next year. Lorena Plaza, a 49-unit development rising in the predominantly Latino neighborhood of Boyle Heights in eastern Los Angeles, is taking longer to complete, a city official said, than practically any other residential building this size in the history of Los Angeles. Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
Read More
San Francisco Is Building to Bring Residents Back
6Dec By adminNo Comments
World

San Francisco Is Building to Bring Residents Back

Real-estate developers are launching a series of residential projects in San Francisco, responding to new efforts by the state and city to create more housing in one of the country’s most expensive places to live. In what would be the city’s most ambitious residential development in several years, local property developer Bayhill Ventures last month announced plans for a 71-story rental tower in San Francisco’s ailing financial district. Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
Read More
Mayor Wu’s Boston Housing Problem
21Nov By adminNo Comments
Business

Mayor Wu’s Boston Housing Problem

The political prospects for restoring rent control in Boston aren’t looking good. But that hasn’t stopped Mayor Michelle Wu from trying to revive it.This month an effort to put the question before voters failed. Sponsored by state Rep. Mike Connolly, it would have given localities the option of introducing rent control. But it gathered only about 11,000 of the 75,000 signatures needed to get it on the 2024 ballot. Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
Read More
16Nov By adminNo Comments
Health

‘Get out’: father of boy killed by mould in flat sends message to other tenants – video | Society

The father of Awaab Ishak, the two-year-old who died because of mould in a social housing flat, has pleaded with tenants to 'waste no time' in complaining and to simply 'get out' if they find themselves exposed to similar problems. Speaking in his first national newspaper interview since Awaab died in December 2020, Faisal Abdullah, 31, also called on the government to introduce strict deadlines for landlords to tackle mould in the private rented sector as well as in social housing – an extension of the so-called Awaab’s law, which is expected to come into effect for social housing Read more here
Read More
How One Major World Capital’s Bid to Boost Affordable Housing Backfired
14Nov By adminNo Comments
World

How One Major World Capital’s Bid to Boost Affordable Housing Backfired

BERLIN—The German capital has long been a lab for daring experiments in tackling the crisis of affordable housing that is plaguing city dwellers from San Francisco to Hong Kong.Anti-gentrification rules are so strict that in some neighborhoods, luxury renovations such as walk-in showers, balconies or cement tiles are turned down. Airbnb is tightly restricted while rental caps have forced thousands of landlords to slash rents.Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
Read More