@degrowthuk@mstdn.social2025-11-26 10:45:49
Housing (for) a post-growth world: A manifesto
by Anna Pagani, Hans Volmary, Daniel Fitzpatrick* Providing housing for all is central to building any future. Yet, the system put in place to deliver housing globally has been relentlessly driven by growth imperatives. The consequences are far reaching: unhealthy, unsafe, overcrowded, over- or underheated, and inadequate housing, which is paralleled by the soaring greenhouse gas emissions and biodiversity loss tied to the…
@scott@carfree.city2025-11-26 02:54:43
San Franciscans! Here's a petition you can sign asking Mayor Lurie and the board of supervisors to fund social housing. You might have seen the flyers around the city.
We voted to fund it with 2020's Prop I, but for obscure reasons of state law, the use of the revenue wasn't legally binding, only intended. And then-Mayor Breed refused to do it. But we can fund it now!
@cdarwin@c.im2025-12-25 18:43:03
Tying housing costs to homelessness rates, researchers have identified inflection points:
🔸When rents in a community exceed about a third of the median income, homelessness escalates.
🔸“As the share of low-income households with severe rent burdens grows, so does their risk of homelessness,”
said Thomas Byrne of Boston College, an author of the study.
Gregg Colburn, a housing expert at the University of Washington, found that
Seattle and San Francisco, with so…
@fanf@mendeddrum.org2025-10-25 11:42:03
from my link log —
Modern perfect hashing with tricks from computer chess.
https://blog.sesse.net/blog/tech/2025-10-23-21-23_modern_perfect_hashing.html
saved 2025-10-24
@degrowthuk@mstdn.social2025-11-26 15:50:23
Housing (for) a post-growth world: A manifesto.
#housing
@servelan@newsie.social2025-11-25 22:35:33
20 states sue Trump over cuts to HUD housing program for homelessness | Courthouse News Service
https://www.courthousenews.com/20-states-sue-trump-over-cuts-to-hud-housing-program-for-homelessness/
@hikingdude@mastodon.social2025-12-26 13:05:32
@scott@carfree.city2025-12-26 06:25:37
“The case for upzoning is relatively solid but deeply underwhelming as a standalone position. The upshot is that everyone is at least partly right: Upzoning can address the shortfall in supply. But it won’t come close to solving the housing crisis alone. Re-enter: public housing.”
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@hikingdude@mastodon.social2025-11-26 19:33:37
Nice, I wanted to write about that topic. And there.. Someone wrote about it already.
That's the reason why I never recorded myself walnut walking into the scene.
Even though it looks really cool,it really disturbs my hiking experience and totally turns into filming.
https://blog.lauram…
@scott@carfree.city2025-11-27 00:07:12
With growing interest in social housing in SF, maybe it’s a good time to re-up this Q&A I hosted last month. In addition to lessons from Seattle, @… goes over SF efforts so far, so it’s a great way to get up to speed!
