After paying for hotel rooms to shelter homeless people, Seattle deliberately left them vacant.

By the end of 2024, taxpayers were spending $4,200 a month per empty room at a time when thousands of residents were without a roof over their heads.
https://www.propublica.org/article/seattle-homeless-shelter-vacancies-civic-hotel?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Seattle #Washington #Homeless #Housing #Hotel

After paying for hotel rooms to shelter homeless people, Seattle deliberately left them vacant.

By the end of 2024, taxpayers were spending $4,200 a month per empty room at a time when thousands of residents were without a roof over their heads.
https://www.propublica.org/article/seattle-homeless-shelter-vacancies-civic-hotel?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Seattle #Washington #Homeless #Housing #Hotel

"Starting with rent controls and abolishing Right to Buy, a future Green Party-led government would also tax landlords via business rates on Airbnbs and double taxation on empty properties. Under the proposals, the party would also end Buy to Let mortgages and give councils the Right to Buy when landlords sell properties, when the property doesn’t meet insulation standards, or when a property has been vacant for more than six months."

#UKPol #GreenParty #Housing

https://www.politicshome.com/news/article/green-party-passes-motion-committing-abolish-landlords

"Starting with rent controls and abolishing Right to Buy, a future Green Party-led government would also tax landlords via business rates on Airbnbs and double taxation on empty properties. Under the proposals, the party would also end Buy to Let mortgages and give councils the Right to Buy when landlords sell properties, when the property doesn’t meet insulation standards, or when a property has been vacant for more than six months."

#UKPol #GreenParty #Housing

https://www.politicshome.com/news/article/green-party-passes-motion-committing-abolish-landlords

Some 4 million people in the U.S. could lose federal housing assistance under new plans from the Trump administration, say experts who reviewed drafts of two unpublished rules obtained by ProPublica.

https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-housing-reforms-aid-hud-immigration-homelessness?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Trump #Housing #Poverty #Homelessness #Homeless #Immigration

https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-housing-reforms-aid-hud-immigration-homelessness “It’s going to cause people to become homeless, kids to be pulled out of their schools, people to lose their jobs” #USPolitics #HUD #housing #homelessness #education

https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-housing-reforms-aid-hud-immigration-homelessness “It’s going to cause people to become homeless, kids to be pulled out of their schools, people to lose their jobs” #USPolitics #HUD #housing #homelessness #education

On today's Executive Committee agenda: a double whammy of devastating cuts to housing & shelter funding from provincial and federal governments https://secure.toronto.ca/council/agenda-item.do?item=2025.EX26.13

(Elsewhere: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/ottawans-race-against-the-clock-to-house-asylum-seekers-ahead-of-federal-hotel-deadline-1.7644956?cmp=rss)

Agenda: https://secure.toronto.ca/council/#/committees/2468/25778
Livestream: https://youtube.com/live/RC57MK8G6f4

#TOcouncil #TOpoli #housing

Some 4 million people in the U.S. could lose federal housing assistance under new plans from the Trump administration, say experts who reviewed drafts of two unpublished rules obtained by ProPublica.

https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-housing-reforms-aid-hud-immigration-homelessness?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Trump #Housing #Poverty #Homelessness #Homeless #Immigration

Income isn’t supposed to play a role in how much housing assistance FEMA gives families.

But in some N.C. counties, the highest-income homeowners received two to three times as much money after Hurricane Helene as those with lower incomes.
https://www.propublica.org/article/fema-aid-hurricane-helene-income-disparities?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #NorthCarolina #Hurricane #FEMA #Housing #Aid

Dreaming of an apartment in Tokyo? Soaring prices, foreign investment and scarce supply are making that dream harder to reach. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/09/29/japan/society/rising-property-prices-tokyo/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #society #property #tokyo #affordability #realestate #housing #buildings

After Hurricane Helene swept through North Carolina in September 2024, the Hill family fought hard for every federal aid dollar available to rebuild. They were displaced by the deadliest inland hurricane on record.

Watch their journey to return home: https://www.propublica.org/article/rebuilding-after-hurricane-helene-north-carolina?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#Documentary #Hurricane #Helene #Anniversary #FEMA #Housing #Aid #Video

Soon, bulldozers are expected to rumble into Asia's largest slum, in the heart of the Indian megalopolis of Mumbai, flattening its labyrinth of filthy alleyways for a brand-new neighborhood. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/09/27/asia-pacific/society/india-slum-gentrification/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #asiapacific #society #india #development #cities #housing #poverty #gautamadani

Income isn’t supposed to play a role in how much housing assistance FEMA gives families.

But in some N.C. counties, the highest-income homeowners received two to three times as much money after Hurricane Helene as those with lower incomes.
https://www.propublica.org/article/fema-aid-hurricane-helene-income-disparities?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #NorthCarolina #Hurricane #FEMA #Housing #Aid

"If we end up attracting - under those Golden Visa programs ... it could be anywhere between NZ$2-5 billion per annum - it just means ... [that] more commercial transactions happens, more business happens, and it is [an] inevitable consequence of that, that property prices will increase. And then, when you're getting a few large acquisitions happening ... it will impact on the entire market."

#MarcusBeveridge, Managing Director, Queen City Law, 2025

https://www.rnz.co.nz/podcast/focusonpolitics/2025/FOCUS BUYERS

#housing

A breathtaking piece of property in the heart of Tokyo has become the ultimate souvenir for wealthy foreign nationals. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/09/17/markets/foreign-property-buyers-tokyo/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #markets #expats #tokyo #realestate #housing #china #inflation

The head of PM #Carney's new housing agency is former #Toronto Deputy Mayor and failed mayoral candidate Ana Bailao.

Bailao also did a stint for one of Toronto's larger slumlords the target of rent strikes by the York South Weston Tenants Union.

Affordable housing? Nah. A grift for developers? Absolutely.

#Canada#CanadianPolitics #cdnpoli #housing

Disappointed in my Assemblymember Damon Connolly for voting NO on #SB79, but thrilled it nonetheless passed 41-17.

GREAT NEWS for housing, transit, and environment in California! https://cayimby.org/legislation/sb-79/

#CAPol#California#SFBA#SonomaCounty#Urbanism#Housing