The Cost of Living Crisis No.3: British government solves the housing crisis by moving poor people into sewers. Landlords rejoice at the prospect of making even more money out of the poor.

#CostOfLivingCrisis #housing #landlords #housingcrisis #tenants #ukpolitics #uk #inflation #economy

If you are a local government during a historic housing shortage, what do you do? You pause permitting of new housing. Because, I guess, you need time to figure out how to do the job you've always had. #WalkerMI #housingcrisis #zoning #localcontrol #EndLocalControl
https://www.crainsgrandrapids.com/news/real-estate/walker-to-consider-a-moratorium-on-permits-for-high-density-residential-projects/

“The #HousingCrisis, #ClimateCrisis, #HealthCare crisis, and #affordability crisis aren’t communications failures. They’re #policy failures. They’re material challenges stemming from the way government policies — at home and abroad, local, provincial, and federal — shape Canadians’ lives.” https://mstdn.ca/@Catelli/111041375975449289

@KimPerales “Not all” of the “#housing” being built is luxury apartments for the rich. Yeah, that's not reassuring. The #HousingCrisis proceeds as scheduled. And of course these are apartments, so #YouWillOwnNothing in any case.

France’s housing crisis: Critics slam Macron’s failed ‘supply shock’ https://www.euractiv.com/section/economy-jobs/news/frances-housing-crisis-critics-slam-macrons-failed-supply-shock/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #EmmanuelMacron #housingcrisis #interestrates #Nexity #Supplyshock

#urbanism #climatecrisis #housingcrisis #bikes hey hall @me for a bluesky invite/code or join this discord https://discord.gg/5metv3kjf8 we have several people with extra codes to share. I'm fema.bsky.social on bluesky if y'all want to verify that I can actually deliver on this and am legit. I know I'm not a known presence here.

Vice: Researchers Gave Unhoused People $7,500. What Happened Next Is Incredible. https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/v7byem/researchers-gave-unhoused-people-dollar7500-what-happened-next-is-incredible #HOUSINGCRISIS #Homelessness #basicincome #Technews #unhoused

@quoll Everybody says the solution to the #HousingCrisis is to move everyone into high-density apartments in cities. Meanwhile, high-density apartments in cities: 👆

Vice: Researchers Gave Unhoused People $7,500. What Happened Next Is Incredible. https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/v7byem/researchers-gave-unhoused-people-dollar7500-what-happened-next-is-incredible #HOUSINGCRISIS #Homelessness #basicincome #Technews #unhoused

The #HousingCrisis and cost of living is so bad in #Canada that some are literally going back to a country in a war rather than sticking it out here.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/ukrainians-leaving-toronto-amid-war-1.6945601

Vice: 'Preposterous': A Landlord Is Trying to Deregulate a Building Based on Decades-Old Renovations https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/88xmw4/preposterous-a-landlord-is-trying-to-deregulate-a-building-based-on-decades-old-renovations #HOUSINGCRISIS #Technews #Landlord #housing #rent

RT @lukedistelhorst: When cities don’t allow housing you’re promoting the clear cutting of lots on dead-end roads in rural areas, a 20min drive from essential services.

Increasing car dependency, financially unsustainable, terrible for the environment, increasing #housing inequities. #housingcrisis

#wetland #ecologist, why post so much about the #housing minister and the #housingcrisis ?

#urban development is a major driver of #wetlandloss in #ontario and the Provincial Policy Statement (under the Planning Act) is the source of protection for Provincially Significant #wetlands. The Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing is the lead Ministry for the PPS as well as policy instruments like the #greenbelt Plan.

Housing matters to wetlands.

#onpoli #conservation #environment

Vice: 'Preposterous': A Landlord Is Trying to Deregulate a Building Based on Decades-Old Renovations https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/88xmw4/preposterous-a-landlord-is-trying-to-deregulate-a-building-based-on-decades-old-renovations #HOUSINGCRISIS #Technews #Landlord #housing #rent

#breakingnews dropped on a holiday #monday - Minister of #Housing Steve #clark resigns (at long last). Whoever replaces him, I’m hoping they start off implementing the remaining 52/55 recommendations from the Housing Affordability Task Force Report! https://files.ontario.ca/mmah-housing-affordability-task-force-report-en-2022-02-07-v2.pdf
#housingcrisis #affordablehousing

Gerade zurück aus Vancouver: Die #housingcrisis und daran geknüpfte #drugcrisis hat dort eine drastische Qualität.
Sehr gutes Interview über die Hintergründe dazu, auch mit einem kurzen Blick auf die Residential Schools und die First Nations:
https://www.nd-aktuell.de/artikel/1175963.drogenpolitik-eine-krise-der-toxischen-drogen.html
@ndaktuell #vancouver #canada

Vice: 'Preposterous': A Landlord Is Trying to Deregulate a Building Based on Decades-Old Renovations https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/88xmw4/preposterous-a-landlord-is-trying-to-deregulate-a-building-based-on-decades-old-renovations #HOUSINGCRISIS #Technews #Landlord #housing #rent

#UK home rents more than doubled in deprived areas over past four years: Study

> A countrywide study [..] shows home rents have more than doubled in the most deprived urban areas over the past four years, pushing more people into poverty.

> ... It said over the past four years, Britons living in the most deprived areas saw their rents increase by 52 percent, while for tenants in the wealthiest regions, rents increased by only 29 percent.
https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2023/09/04/710200/Britain-study-rents-doubled-poor-areas-since-2019 #UK #inflation #housingcrisis

Vice: 'Preposterous': A Landlord Is Trying to Deregulate a Building Based on Decades-Old Renovations https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/88xmw4/preposterous-a-landlord-is-trying-to-deregulate-a-building-based-on-decades-old-renovations #HOUSINGCRISIS #Technews #Landlord #housing #rent

It makes sense: if #landlords in deprived areas are more likely to have funded their properties through a #mortgage, they'd also be more likely to pass on #interestrates rises to tenants... and indeed it seems this is what is happening.

One more dimension of how the #housingcrisis' impact is skewed towards the poor(er) & vulnerable in society.

Rentier #capitalism at work

https://www.theguardian.com/money/2023/sep/03/uk-rents-rise-faster-in-deprived-areas-and-drag-more-people-into-poverty