Work is expected to begin later this year on the long-awaited development. The post Land Bank Approval Clears Way for North Titusville Housing Development appeared first on BirminghamWatch.| BirminghamWatch
The city is focusing on programs to bolster its affordable housing inventory, reduce homelessness and poverty and ramp up community development. The post Birmingham Releases 5-Year Plan for Spending Federal Housing, Community Development Dollars appeared first on BirminghamWatch.| BirminghamWatch
By Jaymie Baxley Jennifer Shigley can’t speak or walk without assistance. The 49-year-old also cannot feed or bathe herself. Her father, a retired child psychologist, described her as having the mental capacity of a toddler. “She requires total care,” Hal Shigley said. “Thank goodness she is in a facility where she’s taken good care of.” […] The post Medicaid cuts could threaten care for North Carolinians with severe disabilities appeared first on North Carolina Health News.| North Carolina Health News
The three-story, 24-unit apartment complex, developed by Ed St. George, passes unanimously, despite parking concerns. The post Santa Barbara County Planning Commission Approves 72 Bedrooms in Isla Vista appeared first on The Santa Barbara Independent.| The Santa Barbara Independent
Mike Stephen discusses the importance of preserving public housing history with Dr. Lisa Yun Lee, the executive director of the National Public Housing Museum, learns about new music from the Chicago Immigrant Orchestra with band co-director Fareed Haque, and discovers the Secret History of local stadium organist Nancy Faust. To subscribe to the OTL podcast, please visit our Apple Podcasts Page, Spotify, or our RSS feed. The post OTL #985: Chicago’s new public housing museum, The Chicago...| Outside the Loop RADIO
The City Council is proposing to lower the minimum home lot size by more than half in an effort to encourage smaller homes such as townhomes and fourplexes.| KUT Radio, Austin's NPR Station
Key Points: League of Arizona Cities and Towns seeks legislation to regulate short-term rentals Municipalities want to limit short-term rental licenses to address housing challenges Short-term rentals make up 10% […]| Arizona Capitol Times
Meanwhile, among European cities, Kraków saw the largest rise.| Notes From Poland
East Palo Alto homeowner Wesley Yu lives 39 miles away from San Francisco, but he could blow a massive hole in SF’s already precarious budget for affordable housing. Yu is suing in federal court to overturn an East Palo Alto law that requires new housing to include, or at least help pay for, some amount […] The post Could the Supreme Court Kill a Key Funding Source for SF Affordable Housing? appeared first on The Frisc.| The Frisc
The city passed in ordinance in 2016 that was meant to bring affordable housing downtown. One local business owner says the ordinance has stifled development.| East Lansing Info
From the Connect Project Team Introduction As the new Labour government rolled out policy directions for different aspects of the UK society, there was an increasing urgency for a dialogue about the well-being of different population groups and the role of the welfare state in an ageing society. People aged 65 and older constitute the… Continue Reading Conversations on Living Well in Old Age: Community Perspectives on Health, Care, and Pensions| PSSRU
JDL Development CEO Jim Letchinger said the site will likely include a "maximum" of 2,800 housing units, plus a hotel, office and retail space and the extension of the 606's Bloomingdale Trail over the Chicago River into Lincoln Park.| Block Club Chicago
Developer Bill Senne is seeking a zoning change to build 58 apartments with ground-floor retail on Milwaukee Avenue. The project would include a two-level garage with 75 public parking spots.| Block Club Chicago
Neighbors can weigh in on a developer's proposal to bring 32 apartments to the corner of Ashland and Carmen avenues via an online survey open through Sept. 16.| Block Club Chicago
Documents obtained via Freedom of Information requests show that BC Housing kept supportive housing units empty while thousands of people were left unsheltered.| themainlander.com
The auction — scheduled to begin at 8 a.m. Sept. 17 — could fetch up to $325,000 in unpaid back taxes| Orange County Register
Group advocating for more housing of all types in Metro Vancouver, Canada. Fediverse address:@ahvancouver@mstdn.ca| Fedi.Directory – Interesting accounts on Mastodon & the Fediverse
Greenbelt Alliance made the environmental case for housing to dozens of Marin supporters at a happy hour, hosted at a beautiful Belvedere home. The post Rallying Support for Housing and Climate Solutions in Marin appeared first on Greenbelt Alliance.| Greenbelt Alliance
On a sunny Thursday evening in June, fifty of our supporters, community partners, and friends came together to celebrate climate resilience at the REAP Climate Center for our annual East Bay Happy Hour. We conversed while enjoying egg rolls, local wine, and the ambiance from the sheep and chickens that we met on our farm […] The post 2025 East Bay Happy Hour: Partnering for a Stronger Shoreline appeared first on Greenbelt Alliance.| Greenbelt Alliance
Greenbelt Alliance is excited to endorse the Mendocino District development in Santa Rosa, a transformative project set to bring vibrant, mixed-use housing in the heart of downtown Santa Rosa.| Greenbelt Alliance
A PREVIEW of Mayor John Moran’s ambitions for modular housing in Limerick is to go on show this Friday at Arthur’s Quay. The construction of the “prototype” modular homes is currently ongoing at the public park in the heart of Limerick City. Mayor Moran has, even before his election, promoted the idea of modular housing […] The post Modular housing to go on show at Arthur’s Quay appeared first on Limerick Post Newspaper.| Limerick Post Newspaper
SOCIAL Democrats councillor Shane Hickey-O’Mara wants to see Limerick City and Council scrap the inclusion of child maintenance payments as income when calculating rent on local authority homes. The 2024 Survey on Income and Living Conditions, released by the Central Statistics Office (CSO), found that 13.8 per cent of children were identified as living in […] The post Remove child maintenance from Council rent assessments, says Limerick councillor appeared first on Limerick Post Newspaper.| Limerick Post Newspaper
Mayor Eric Adams’ administration has moved ahead with a controversial rule change that will increase the share working families with housing vouchers will have to pay in rent. The change affects CityFHEPS, a rental assistance program used by tens of thousands of New Yorkers who have been homeless or at risk of losing housing. Starting […] The post Rent Hike for Some Voucher Tenants Starts, Spurred by Mayor Adams appeared first on THE CITY - NYC News.| THE CITY – NYC News
One real estate expert called the company’s practices in Detroit “highly unusual.” Outlier Media · Aaron Mondry · Undisclosed mortgages, missing deeds: RealT’s problems mount| Outlier Media
Intense debates about housing density are playing out across Nashville, and new policies are on the horizon.| WPLN News
Gov. Katie Hobbs is now offering up her own plan to override some city regulations to allow for more "starter homes.''| KAWC
For the past eight years, a manufactured home park in Tucson has been overcharging its residents for water by hundreds of dollars. But that practice ended this summer when the Arizona attorney general stepped in as part of a broader investigation into submetering practices in mobile home parks. Now Skyline Real Estate, the company that […] The post Tucson mobile home residents will get refunds after years of inflated water bills appeared first on AZ Luminaria.| AZ Luminaria
Durante los últimos ocho años, un parque de casas prefabricadas en Tucson ha estado cobrando cientos de dólares de más a sus residentes por el agua. Pero esa práctica terminó este verano, cuando la fiscal general de Arizona intervino como parte de una investigación más amplia sobre las prácticas de submedición en parques de casas […] The post Residentes de casas móviles en Tucson recibirán reembolsos tras años de facturas de agua infladas appeared first on AZ Luminaria.| AZ Luminaria
Using Parcl Labs data, we dive into more housing trends, this time for current listings on the metro Atlanta housing market. The post Metro Market Monitor: Other Trends in the 2025 Housing Market appeared first on 33n.| 33n
Pulling data from ATTOM, we examine metro housing activity thus far in 2025.| 33n
Located in scenic South Tampa, MAA Breakwater invites you to start and end each day steps from the shimmering waters of Tampa Bay. The post MAA Breakwater: Sophisticated Waterfront Living appeared first on Tampa Magazine.| Tampa Magazine
As the city ponders over the plan to increase heights and density on the west side, urbanists look to build momentum in the Richmond. Westside YIMBYs meet in hostile territory to say: Embrace density| Mission Local
Mayor Lurie visited two neighborhoods and six subsidized housing complexes over the past month. Tenants are hoping for change. Mayor Lurie makes marathon visits to S.F. low-income housing. But what can he do?| Mission Local
Dozens of volunteers participated in this summer’s point-in-time count of homelessness, documenting an increase of people who lacked shelter. Some volunteers previously experienced homelessness themselves. Homelessness is increasing in Brown County. These volunteers traded a night’s sleep to document the challenge is a post from Wisconsin Watch, a non-profit investigative news site covering Wisconsin since 2009. Please consider making a contribution to support our journalism.| Wisconsin Watch
The spacious historic property in the 900 block of College Avenue in Palo Alto was sold on July 21, 2025 for $3,270,000, or $1,605 per square foot.| The Mercury News
A house that sold for $5.9 million tops the list of the most expensive residential real estate sales in Saratoga in the past week.| The Mercury News
The Squamish Nation says Vancouver-based developer Westbank Corp. has sold its entire stake in its... The post Westbank sells stake in massive Squamish Nation housing development in Vancouver appeared first on APTN News.| APTN News
A new census found 2,469 people living on the streets of Winnipeg in the fall of 2024, nearly double the number in 2022.| APTN News
Although Rochdale had built on a large scale in the interwar period, as we saw in last week’s post, and …Continue reading →| Municipal Dreams
Rochdale Town Hall, completed in 1871 and recently restored to its founding glory, is a municipal dream in itself – …Continue reading →| Municipal Dreams
I’m very pleased to feature this week a guest by Ray Rogers who ha contributed previously with a fine account …Continue reading →| Municipal Dreams
In 1959, the South London Observer declared that ‘Camberwell must rank No. 1 in London housing progress at the moment’. …Continue reading →| Municipal Dreams
Last week’s post looked at interwar Wigan, an era when the borough embarked on a programme of large-scale housing construction …Continue reading →| Municipal Dreams
Last week, we left Wigan, in the closing months of the First World War, anticipating peace and the desperately needed housebuilding programme pledged to follow. By November 1918, Prime Minister Llo…| Municipal Dreams
Grays Harbor County, Washington used to be home to the “Lumber Capital of the World.” Now that the timber industry has come and gone – and left a trail of environmental and economic damage in its wake – some of its residents are reimagining their local identity. A significant amount of people are homeless in […] The post An Old Timber Town’s “Freedom Church of the Poor” appeared first on The Daily Yonder.| The Daily Yonder
Off-street parking at new developments is not going away. If the city doesn't require parking, developers will still build parking.| la.streetsblog.org
By: Travis Wayne ARLINGTON, MA – On Saturday, August 2, 2025, the Hamilton Tenants Association made a bold move: rallying directly and publicly against their landlord right outside their home. It wasn’t their first option. The tenants at 898 Massachusetts Avenue had made phone call after phone call for everything under the sun, from repairs […] The post Hamilton Tenants Association Faces Terrible Landlord With Rally in Arlington appeared first on Working Mass.| Working Mass
King County is capping school impact fees on multifamily projects, hoping to lessen the burden on homebuilders. The move sparked a debate on how to help overcapacity school districts while avoid undue burdens on builders. The post King County Restructures School Impact Fees to Comply with State Law first appeared on The Urbanist.| The Urbanist
Cities around the region are starting to grapple with greater accountability for creating more affordable housing, in the wake of a far-reaching decision impacting Mercer Island. Bainbridge Island and Clyde Hill provide an early look at those conversations. The post Cities Grapple With ‘Game-Changing’ Impact of Mercer Island Housing Plan Ruling first appeared on The Urbanist.| The Urbanist
With a mandate to design its buildings for an ambitious green housing standard called “Passive House” while maintaining affordability, Seattle's newly funded social housing authority has an important point to prove. The post Seattle Social Housing Developer Strives for High Sustainability and Affordability Standards first appeared on The Urbanist.| The Urbanist
Parking reform has become a national movement, aimed at reducing housing costs. With a nudge from state law, Shoreline joins the trend to support urban development and a shift toward greener transportation options. The post Why Shoreline’s Vote to Erase Parking Mandates Is a Big Deal first appeared on The Urbanist.| The Urbanist
Bellingham is ranked the fourth most unaffordable housing market in the nation, but it doesn’t have to be this way. The city must embrace pro-housing policies: easing zoning restrictions, cutting red tape, and investing in mixed-income development, writes Bellingham City Council candidate Andrew Reding. The post Op-Ed: How Bellingham Can Solve Its Housing Crisis first appeared on The Urbanist.| The Urbanist
# All but one councilmember asked the Low Income Housing Institute to come back with a design that eliminates around a quarter of the planned affordable homes, after intense criticism of the height and parking ratio of a 92-unit proposal.| The Urbanist » Advocacy journalism for better cities.
A review of the best practices and existing policies to protect affordability in Toronto’s Building Emissions Performance Standards.| taf.ca
Some of you may have already seen local coverage of new six-unit homes being proposed near the University of St Thomas campus. You also may have heard about some pushback from neighbors in that area — specifically an ask for a moratorium on all multifamily housing construction in the area. The two multi-unit structures would replace two single-family homes at 2143 and 2149 Selby Avenue (both owned by Elliot Capital Group in Eden Prairie, according to Ramsey County records). The houses, one ...| Streets.mn
Around the West, community land trusts are helping people recover from disaster — and prepare for the next one.| High Country News
By EBRC Research Staff| Arizona's Economy
Bedford Borough Council spent £17.5 million on temporary accommodation between December 2023 and March 2025, new figures show. The majority of the money went to private...| Bedford Independent
Originally approved in 2020 as a mixed-income development, one of San Francisco’s largest affordable housing projects in years is breaking ground in Potrero Hill.| www.kqed.org
A 100% affordable housing project broke ground at 16th and DeHaro streets Monday morning, and this is newsworthy, because it's being built by a market-rate developer, and it was not originally going to be affordable housing.| SFist - San Francisco News, Restaurants, Events, & Sports
PM Lawrence Wong calls on Singaporeans to unite, write nation’s next chapter together| If Only Singaporeans Stopped to Think
Commanding swing from 61.24% share in last general election gives Prime Minister Lawrence Wong the clear mandate he sought| If Only Singaporeans Stopped to Think
In an interview with Lianhe Zaobao, Prime Minister Lawrence Wong discussed how the system has evolved and how the Government will continue supporting the housing, healthcare and retirement needs of Singaporeans throughout different stages in their lives. Here is an edited extract of his interview.| If Only Singaporeans Stopped to Think
For the second-straight year, the maximum rent increase was arrived at by matching the rate of inflation based on the consumer price index| Vancouver Sun
California is notoriously known for its expensive real estate, both rented and owned, and I am seeking legitimate and logical explanation of such exorbitant prices in here. I heard quite a bit of different explanations from both authoritative pundits and not very smart bloggers, to name a few: Fed interest rates are high Housing shortage Developers are hesitant to build because of strict construction policies Developers are hesitant to build because of high risks of fires/tornados/earthquakes...| Recent Questions - Politics Stack Exchange
Essex County Land Bank completes second home renovation in Lewis for $200K, launches countywide search for more abandoned properties to convert.| Adirondack Explorer
Seasonally adjusted annual rate of housing starts reached 294,085 units last month| Economy | Advisor.ca
I write to formally and urgently lodge a complaint against HFC Bank – Kisumu Branch, regarding...| Consumers Federation of Kenya (COFEK)
A look at some of the people and data behind the program state officials want to shutter amid fraud probe by the FBI.| Cloquet Pine Journal
Raymond Harrell’s hope for the upcoming reappraisal of property in Buncombe County: It goes better than the last one in 2021. That year, the 44 percent increase in the taxable value of his 772-square-foot, 73-year-old home in the historically Black neighborhood of Shiloh made it a prime example of the county-wide dispute about the reassessment’s […] The post Bracing for sticker shock? Buncombe starts reappraisal in era of fast-rising home prices and after past accusations of inequity ap...| Asheville Watchdog
The $11 million Opportunity Place project will bring 24 income-restricted apartments to Missoula's Riverfront neighborhood, with eight units designed to be fully accessible for adults with disabilities.| The Pulp
The Huntsville Area Association of Realtors (HAAR) has released its monthly report for the Huntsville/Madison County market for the month of July. The report shows that closed sales in all properties have dipped by 8.7% from July of 2024, and the median sales price in all properties has seen a 1.8% decrease as well. The […] The post Real Estate Update: July Monthly Report Shows Dip in Closed Sales, Median Sales Price appeared first on Huntsville Business Journal.| Huntsville Business Journal
Life happens, even in a slow market. Job relocations, family shifts, and urgent timelines create buyers who can’t wait. Builders who anticipate their needs—especially with quick move-in homes—win sales now and resilience later.| The Builder's Daily
2/10/2025 It is commonly touted that the high price of housing is due to all corporations buying up all the houses. “You will own nothing,” many say. Indeed, housing affordability is, I believe, the number one problem in America’s economy,... Continue Reading →| Econ Chris Clarke
Protest signs reading “I want to be able to afford rent on the minimum wage,” “Social housing, not residential complexes,” “Rent for people, not for profit.” Over the last two decades in Romania, the housing question has received more attention than before, from left-wing as well as, at certain times, liberal or even right-wing organizations, alliances, and/or political actors. The country has the highest rate of overcrowding in homes in the EU (which it joined 2007) and a large p...| Lefteast
More than seven-in-ten of the province’s residents would ban smoking and vaping in multi-family buildings.| Research Co.
If someone like me can get trapped in the cycle of housing instability, anyone can. But the solutions are out there. The post I Did My Dissertation on Housing Displacement. Then I Experienced It Myself. appeared first on OtherWords.| OtherWords
Jason M. Barr August 13, 2025 Say an apartment building begins to decay visibly, does it increase the likelihood that buildings around it will also decay? We know that tough economic conditions can impact landlords’ ability to keep their apartment buildings in good working order. As discussed in a previous blog| Building the Skyline - The Birth & Growth of Manhattan's Skyscrapers
Assistant Vice Provost for ResEd Cheryl Brown announced the dissolution of the neighborhood system to "better support the variety of residential options available" in an Aug. 11 email to ResEd staff, RFs and RAs. The post ResEd discontinues neighborhood system appeared first on The Stanford Daily.| The Stanford Daily
“If every city took 10 refugee families, if every London borough took 10 families, if every county council took 10 families… in a month we’d have nearly 10,000 more places for vulnerable refugees fleeing danger, seeking safety.” Yvette Cooper, The Guardian, Sept 1, 2015 When Yvette Cooper was running for her party’s top job exactly […] The post Asylum Accommodation Can Be Done Better appeared first on Migrants Organise.| Migrants Organise
Many Maine municipalities are doing their first revaluations since the pandemic boom in home values, making residents concerned about taxes.| The Maine Monitor
The show offers a behind-the-scenes look at recent reporting published on The Monitor's website.| The Maine Monitor
Tenants with federal housing subsidies may now appeal for reimbursement if public housing authorities charged them higher rents based on receiving state benefits to care for a disabled family member.| LAFLA: Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles
New York City evictions are back to pre-pandemic levels as landlords force delinquent tenants out at the fastest clip since 2018. City marshals have removed more than 11,200 households so far this year — averaging 1,500 a month — Gothamist reported, using data from the Department of Investigations. That pace is higher than any year since 2018, when monthly evictions peaked at about 1,666 per month. There are approximately 2.2 million rental units in the city. The jump in evictions comes a...| New York - The Real Deal
New ONS data shows private rent in London far above the “affordability threshold" set at 30% of income. London Renters Union called for government to introduce rent controls. London mayor Sadiq Khan has previously asked for rent control powers and proposed a London Private Rent Commission.| Salamander News - Community, climate and nature for Lewisham.
In British Columbia, most residential landlord and tenant matters are governed by the Residential Tenancy Act, S.B.C. 2002, c. 78 (the “RTA”). Over the years, the RTA has been amended to provide more protections to tenants faced with eviction from their landlord who wish to move into the rental property. At present, individual landlords wishing […] The post Another Day, another Dollar: Steep Financial Consequences for Landlords Failing to Follow Through on their Move into a Rental Prope...| Alexander Holburn Beaudin + Lang LLP
As of July 31, 2025, the Residential Tenancy Branch will post copies of its monetary orders in a searchable database available on the Residential Tenancy Branch website.| Alexander Holburn Beaudin + Lang LLP
Seven years after its construction the “green” block of flats designed by the architect Luciano Pia in Turin has reached a state of perfect maturity| Abitare
Cool roofs are light coloured and designed to reflect heat, the simplest just a coat of white paint. They have been used for centuries in some parts of the world and are now taking off in the US.| Salamander News - Community, climate and nature for Lewisham.
This article by Grist is published here as part of the global journalism collaboration Covering Climate Now.| Salamander News - Community, climate and nature for Lewisham.
As London faces another heatwave, residents of tower blocks and other "single-aspect" homes are at particular risk. London's housing stock is poorly adapted for extreme heat. Are building regulations for new build and existing homes fit for purpose in a heating world?| Salamander News - Community, climate and nature for Lewisham.
The London Assembly Housing Committee have demanded that more accessible homes be built in the capital.| Salamander News - Community, climate and nature for Lewisham.
Since being diagnosed, Medicaid has been my lifeline, providing the infusion treatments that allow me to function daily. Without this support, my quality of life would drastically decline, and I could face premature death. That’s why I am deeply concerned about the devastating impacts Republicans’ proposed Medicaid cuts would have on me, and countless other North Carolinians in our state’s small towns and rural communities. The post Medicaid is my lifeline. If Republicans cut it, I coul...| Welcome to Down Home!
I should have drowned when I was 9 years old in 1966... I remember the current. I remember sinking and never hitting any bottom. I remember gulping the murky brownish greenish water. I remember fighting with my arms in the wet darkness... If in your heart you do not understand the role of healing which public pools can play in our county, then I fear you my friends are continuing to be victimized by our collective historical trauma of racism. The post “I should have drowned” — Public sp...| Welcome to Down Home!
The first 100 days of any new administration are always considered crucial. This is the period when the incoming president looks to make a lasting impression and set the tone for what is to come. The one we are in right now has been a whirlwind unlike any other. The post Building Long-Lasting Change for Our People: Recapping the 2025 Issue Campaign Bootcamp appeared first on Welcome to Down Home!.| Welcome to Down Home!
The first 100 days of any new administration are always considered crucial. This is the period when the incoming president looks to make a lasting impression and set the tone for what is to come. The one we are in right now has been a whirlwind unlike any other. The post The First 100 Days of the New Administration: Fighting for North Carolina’s Working Families appeared first on Welcome to Down Home!.| Welcome to Down Home!
Oakland, Austin, San Francisco, Denver, Tampa, Seattle, New York City, Saint Petersburg, Fort Myers, Sarasota, Boise, Jacksonville, Detroit, New Orleans, Portland, Arlington, Naples, Mesa, Aurora, Reno, Scottsdale.| Wolf Street
Home prices fell YoY in 20 of our 33 metros: Tampa, Austin, Miami, San Diego, San Jose, San Francisco, San Antonio, Dallas, Phoenix, Orlando, Atlanta, Denver, Raleigh, Houston, Seattle… Some still up YoY: Boston, Chicago, New York, Philadelphia…| Wolf Street
Each market dances to a different drummer. But in some metros, the drummer hasn’t gotten out of bed yet.| Wolf Street
Turns out, younger people live their lives, and have always done so.| Wolf Street
