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Maryland will use Claude across its agencies to help residents apply for food aid, Medicaid, and more, and deploy Percepta tools to speed up housing permits (Maria Curi/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/11/13/maryland-ai-housing-government-benefits

Exclusive: Maryland taps AI for housing and government benefits
Applying for government assistance or housing permits, as well as processing those services, can be difficult and time consuming.

Listening to CBC Radio Barrie this morning and they were interviewing the manager responsible for housing starts for the Town of Innisfil. The discussion was about missed targets for housing starts and what can be done to get back on track. You could tell that he was frustrated, but the reason for less homes being built was almost solely put on the downturn in the housing market. No one is buying, so private industry isn't building.
All levels of government are throwing money at the problem, with most of it incentivizing for-profit companies to put shovels in the ground. At some point, the Federal, Provincial, and Municipal governments have to realize that public housing, government leasehold development, co-operative housing, or subsidized family apartments must be considered to solve the housing shortage. Private industry will never have the same objectives of getting families into homes - without a calculation of significant profits first.
#CanPoli #AffordableHousing

Lurie admin "blamed the plan to stall housing at 101 Hyde on the state’s designation of the Tenderloin as a low-resourced area, which puts it down on the priority list for state funding."
SF has the third most billionaires of any city in the world. One of them is our mayor. Not having funds for affordable housing is a choice.

Plans for affordable housing at shuttered S.F. food hall site stuck in limbo 
La Cocina’s space in the Tenderloin was pitched as a community hub with cheap eats, and eventually affordable housing. Neither is happening.

Grünes Licht für Microsoft 365 in Hessens Verwaltung
Microsoft 365 kann laut hessischem Datenschutzbeauftragten datenschutzkonform eingesetzt werden – unter bestimmten Voraussetzungen.
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The Trump administration is upending its homelessness policy,
with deep cuts to funding for long-term housing.
Instead, it will shift money toward transitional housing that requires work and addiction treatment.
170,000 people could be at risk of losing their housing 
Critics warn the major overhaul could put 170,000 people at risk of losing their housing again.
And they say the timing is terrible.
Normally, funding notices go out months earlier, but now pro…

Stylish Prefab Home Can Be ‘Dropped’ into Flooded Areas or Anywhere Housing is Needed https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/prefab-home-can-be-dropped-into-flooded-areas-or-anywhere-housing-is-needed/

Prefab Home Can Be ‘Dropped’ into Flooded Areas or Anywhere Housing is Needed
To cope with rising sea levels, architects in Indonesia designed the Drop Pod, a stylish modular structure that is “quick to install.”

Die „Bild“-Zeitung titelte, Habecks #Heizungspläne würden 1.000 Milliarden Euro kosten.
Doch laut dem befragten #Wirtschaftsinstitut #RWI ist diese Summe eine grobe Schätzung mi…

Falschmeldung der „Bild“-Zeitung: Habeck kostet uns keine Billion
Kosten die Pläne des grünen Vizekanzlers zum Austausch alter Heizungen 1.000 Milliarden Euro, wie die Boulevard-Zeitung behauptet? Ein Faktencheck.

"Microplastics are brought into the wilderness on hiking shoes and gear, study shows"
#Plastic #Plastics #Microplastics

Hiking the Douro Valley day 1. #portugal #hiking

Carsten Schneider kündigt an, dass der staatlich geförderte #Heizungstausch auch künftig bestehen bleibt.
Kann man ja als #Bundesumweltminister einfach mal sagen. Macht #Söder

Bundesumweltminister: Heizungstausch wird weiterhin gefördert
Klimafreundliche Heizungen sollen laut Umweltminister Schneider weiterhin gefördert werden. Das Gebäudeenergiegesetz werde "im Grundsatz" so bleiben, sagte der SPD-Politiker im Bericht aus Berlin. Im Koalitionsvertrag klang das anders.