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Nobody really knows the scale of the U.S. housing crisis
America faces a serious housing shortage, one that Moody’s estimates would take more than 2 million new homes to resolve.

But over at Goldman Sachs, analysts put the number at
3 million.
Zillow’s estimate tops 4 million,
while Brookings projects 5 million,
and McKinsey says 8 million.
Meanwhile, congressional Republicans insist the shortfall is closer to 20 million.

Then there are the …

Why nobody really knows the scale of the U.S. housing crisis
Experts say the U.S. needs an additional 2 million to 20 million homes to fix the shortfall, underscoring the challenge of meeting the nation’s housing needs.

2019 time capsule: “The successful implementation of a public bank could be a windfall for affordable housing advocates.” By @…. Now, finally, it’s headed for a ballot near you!

A public bank could make affordable housing more affordable
How would a public bank fund affordable housing?

Just one more example demonstrating that the "market" and #MayorLurie's "Family Zoning Plan" will not solve even a small part of the affordable housing problem.
But it might make more mansions available.
SFMTA approves slashing 365 units from Mission housing project

S.F. approves slashing 365 units from Potrero Yard housing project
Despite opposition, SFMTA board greenlights reduced plan at Muni bus yard in the Mission

Just one more example demonstrating that the "market" and #MayorLurie's "Family Zoning Plan" will not solve even a small part of the affordable housing problem.
But it might make more mansions available.
SFMTA approves slashing 365 units from Mission housing project

S.F. approves slashing 365 units from Potrero Yard housing project
Despite opposition, SFMTA board greenlights reduced plan at Muni bus yard in the Mission

"Both candidates agreed that Market Street should be reopened to cars (a few people booed, then some cheered). They also both agreed that new housing developments should include more parking."
No problem for the "urbanists" at SF YIMBY, who just endorsed Sherrill.
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S.F. housing is hottest topic in first debate between District 2 supervisor candidates
Appointed supervisor Stephen Sherrill and neighborhood organizer Lori Brooke face off on housing, cars, and public safety

Happening now in North Minneapolis somewhere just southwest of 2nd Ave N and Van White Memorial Boulevard, police ordering more people with nowhere to go to leave otherwise-unused land by 1pm today. The City of Minneapolis has been using violence (physical force or the threat of physical force) to shove unhoused people around constantly since the destruction of community-supported encampments, and so long as this is allowed, the human right to housing will never be fulfilled. See you there…

Even after so many policy changes on housing, that this kind of shit can still happen is very discouraging.
From the article:
Members said they found Malhotra’s plan both inappropriate and undesirable — too tall for the street at six storeys, even while they acknowledged its height would be within regulations under a new law and therefore not subject to their approval.

🍊 Cardboard crazy! Scavenger genius Shigeru Ban on building cathedrals and quake shelters with paper
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2026/feb/17/shigeru-ban-architect-cathedrals-quake-shelters-beer-crates-paper…

Cardboard crazy! Scavenger genius Shigeru Ban on building cathedrals and quake shelters with paper
From high-end boutiques to housing in disaster zones with beer-crate foundations, the Japanese architect creates with things people throw away. What will his distillery in whisky’s holy land look like?

Hell YES! And hold senior management at NO Transpo accountable.
Yesterday... leave work. Bus at 15:20, arrive home 16:30. Should have arrived at home by 15:45. One missing bus, second full and waited for the 3rd.
https://flip.it/9z2x0m

Senators unveil bipartisan bill to tackle housing affordability in rural areas (Julie Tsirkin/NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/senators-bipartisan-bill-housing-affordability-rural-areas-rcna265130
http://www.memeorandum.com/260331/p140#a260331p140

The US Treasury Department, State Department, and federal housing agency are ending use of Anthropic products; State Department says it will switch to OpenAI (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/us-treasury-ending-all-use-anthropi…

This is absolute madness.
No. We need less private landlords, ideally none.
It doesn't matter how you slice it, once-off pension, multi-property business, investment funds. None.
Housing should be a right, a public need, not an investment opportunity.
FG/FF are the reason we are in this mess.
ht…

Ireland needs more landlords 'that have five or more houses who treat it like a business'
The government is trying to ‘change the housing culture in Ireland’, according to Fine Gael MEP Regina Doherty.

Russia strikes ENERGY AND HOUSING: 1,700 DRONES and 69 MISSILES in one week #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/25/russia-strikes-energy-and-housing.html

The low-hanging fruit just isn't that juicy for the technolatrous UK government.
"The Warm Homes Plan provides an opportunity to change course, but the approach taken by government prioritises heat pumps and solar panels over ensuring that homes reach basic standards of health and energy efficiency."
A Plan for Places: Transforming Housing and Lowering the Cost of Living Through Home Improvement Corporations

A Plan for Places: Transforming Housing and Lowering the Cost of Living Through Home Improvement Corporations
A proven institutional framework for delivering housing retrofit.

I'm not saying there isn't any problem, but I am saying that thatcherism/reaganism is absolutely how everyone dies. How about we stop American private equity from draining the economy, ignore all US laws against reverse engineering, stop paying copy levy to the US, and legalize squatting again to make it so giant corporations can't hold all the housing stock? Maybe we can check in after that.

Good evening!
Starlings over Utrecht, at dusk.

🏘️ Factory-built housing hasn't taken off in California yet, but this year might be different
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2026-02-14/factory-built-housing-hasnt-taken-off-in-californ…

Factory-built housing hasn’t taken off in California yet, but this year might be different
This year, state legislators in California believe that with a little state assistance, they want to make 2026 the Year of the Housing Factory.

"Green spaces should be the norm for all new housing developments in England, guidelines say"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Houses

Here’s a perfect encapsulation of why #YIMBY hopes for new market-rate housing to lower rents are in vain. San Francisco has the highest rents in the country, but still not high enough for developers to build. It “could really help” if our extreme rents got even higher, though!

This week: SF rents hit No. 1 — but developers say they need more
Developers still struggle to raise equity

The median home buyer is 59 years old.
That may sound like a shocking statistic, but it’s part of a trend.
In 2020, the median home buyer was 47 years old, which at the time was also an all-time high.

Here’s another shocking statistic:
The median down payment on a house in 2025 for first time homebuyers surpassed $40,000
— exceeding the median net worth of Americans under 35.
Americans once went in search of their starter homes in their 20s,
but …

HSAs for housing could fix a generational problem
The model pioneered by Health Savings Accounts can help families attain the dream of home ownership.

On housing for students at Ontario universities.
https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/ontario-university-housing-survey/article_569933c2-2e92-4732-b7f0-4fc0ddde9e1f.html

Students at these two Ontario universities have lower rents, better commutes and more financial help from Mom and Dad
A report by research firm Studenthaus found national average rent for students this past fall was $1,146, with 66% of renters receiving family help.

Both Amazon & Microsoft cooperatively push for 5 policy changes to address housing crisis in WA state.
▶️ WA must make it easier to build our way out of housing crisis | The Seattle Times
https://www.seattletimes.com/opinion/wa-mu…

Aramark tells Yosemite workers it's axing most of their housing rights
https://www.sfgate.com/national-parks/article/aramark-yosemite-employee-housing-21307621.php

Alright, I'm starting to be kind of impressed by this Mamdani guy.
https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-zohran-mamdani-new-york-housing-3835daca395dbe46c2f3da2433ec24f4

Mamdani pitches Trump on housing in latest White House visit
President Donald Trump has met with New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani at the White House to talk about big federal housing investments. Mamdani on Thursday presented Trump with a mock New York Daily News cover that reads “Trump to City: Let’s Build.” His team says the goal is to show Trump the positive headlines a deal could generate. Mamdani’s office did not detail the housing plan, but his spokesperson says Trump responded with enthusiasm. Mamdani also asked Trump to release a detain…

The SDA Housing Podcast
A leading voice in the Specialist Disability Accommodation (SDA) sector, delivering in-depth discussions, expert insights, and the latest updates related to housing solutions for people with disabilities...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/sda-…

Series C, Episode 10 - Ultraworld
ORAC: The idiosyncratic syntax of riddles interests me. They seem to depend for their effect on solecisms and grammatical discrepancies.
VILA: Eh?
ORAC: Do you have another riddle for me to analyze?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/310/228 B7B4

Mamdani heads to White House for meeting with Trump on housing (Chris Sommerfeldt/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/02/26/mamdani-heads-to-white-house-for-meeting-with-trump-on-housing-00801450
http://www.memeorandum.com/260226/p74#a260226p74

It would appear that someone previously vibe-renovated my bathroom ceiling.
(Reposting because I completely butchered the joke with a typo.)

Milwaukee (and every city) needs more third spaces for youth.
“The “LIT Lounge” was born out of a critical need in Milwaukee, where Black and Brown youth often face systemic inequities, housing insecurity, and too few safe spaces after school. LIT renovated its Milwaukee office to create a space that is by and for young people, where they can simply be.”

Post From Community: Leaders Igniting Transformation opens the “LIT Lounge,” a new youth third space in Milwaukee
The "LIT Lounge" was born out of a critical need in Milwaukee, where Black and Brown youth often face systemic inequities, housing insecurity, and too few safe spaces after school.

I've been wondering if "one-off rural housing" can be described as ultra-low density suburbanisation. I've been looking at data: Census Small Area statistics, in fact.
Result, this map:
Rural Census Small Areas with >40% of housing stock build in the period 2000-2022 (bulk in 2000-2008, 2nd phase of Celtic Tiger). Huge patterns of ultra-low density suburbanisation in some areas (Galway city environs) but not others. What's going on east of the M11, SE coa…

Housing starts are up across Canada as government funding starts to make an impact. Except for one province that lags way behind. But they'll have a mega spa and a tunnel under #Highway401 ...
#onpoli #AffordableHousing #FordMustGo
https://ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/canada-builds-at-near-record-pace-but-one-province-remains-a-drag-td-161204632.html

The average retiree household spends roughly $60,000 annually, with housing (36%), transportation (15%), healthcare (13%) and food (13%) taking the largest shares of the budget.
Inflation-adjusted spending typically declines by about 26% between the ages of 65 and 84, but long-term care costs remain a major wild card that standard spending data doesn't capture
Seven out of 10 people turning 65 will need some form of long-term care in their lifetimes,
and two in 10 will…

Fun little double-header at City Hall. I commented at the SFMTA Board asking them not to approve a version of the Potrero Yard project that eliminates the possibility of 360 affordable homes, for want of $70 million. Then I asked the SFBOS not to repeal the transfer tax on high-valued real estate, which would take $100m a year out of the budget that was intended to fund affordable housing. #sfpol

"A National Audit Office investigation revealed in October last year that a staggering 98% of external insulation fitted under the previous government’s home-improvement schemes was installed so ineptly that it will have to be repaired or replaced."
Surprise, surprise.
Britain's building industry is unbelievably shoddy.

Stefan Horn at bartlett IIPP made a strong defence of his thesis today on splitting out housing rents which sustain needs within enviro limits from the balance - pure extraction

San Francisco's housing market is seeing a big rebound, driven by the AI boom; Apartment List says rents rose 14% YoY in February, the fastest growth in the US (Katherine Bindley/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/economy/housing/san-fr…

“That one wealthy individual can render 37 people (in Cuirt Eigis, Ballybane) homeless like this, during a housing crisis, is a damning indictment of our laws, our housing policies, and our government’s values”, said Rooke.
https://www.pbp.ie/landlord-to-evic…

A Build America, Buy America law is causing construction delays amid the US housing crisis (Charlotte Kramon/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/affordable-housing-construction-baba-hud-delays-4302744b3b5839268acaee92bf172eb9
http://www.memeorandum.com/260327/p37#a260327p37

Please explain to me why people believe the "market" will solve the housing crisis, if only we removed barriers like zoning. The market certainly doesn't seem to do so well at maintaining existing properties at affordable prices.
‘My bill keeps escalating’: how Toledo, Ohio, became the epicenter of the US housing crisis

Please explain to me why people believe the "market" will solve the housing crisis, if only we removed barriers like zoning. The market certainly doesn't seem to do so well at maintaining existing properties at affordable prices.
‘My bill keeps escalating’: how Toledo, Ohio, became the epicenter of the US housing crisis

Top Articles of 2025: The Rental Housing Market Holds Strong
"The U.S. rental housing market remained strong and stable in 2025, with narrowing supply‑demand gaps, rising investment activity, and rent growth in line with pre‑pandemic levels."

Top Articles of 2025: The Rental Housing Market Holds Strong
The U.S. rental housing market remained strong and stable in 2025, spreading through the multifamily and single-family rentals sectors. Here’s a look at this year's top articles from Arbor Realty Trust, in case you missed them.

https://you.leadnow.ca/petitions/canadians-want-peace-not-war?source=rawlink&utm_source=rawlink&share=5d77cdfb-1d02-49a7-b9c0-613bd152d5e4

Carney: Say no to Military Action in the Middle East
As Canadians, we are deeply concerned about reports that Canada could become involved in another military conflict in the Middle East. Military conflicts cost billions of dollars that ultimately come from taxpayers. At a time when Canadians are facing rising housing costs, inflation, and economic uncertainty, many people believe those resources should be focused on strengthening our communities here at home. Entering another war abroad would require significant public spending funded by...

Avram David "Avi" Lewis is the leader of Canada's
New Democratic Party (NDP).
Lewis: “Our NDP has a different offer for this country.
Our plan is to Trump-proof the economy
by investing massively in Canadian economic independence
using the unmatched power of public ownership.
“A network of public providers for food, phones, and internet.
A public housing developer.”

Justice Department Notifies California and Maine of Investigations into Whether Housing Biological Men in Women's Prisons Violates Constitution (US Department of Justice)
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-notifies-california-and-maine-investigations-whether-housing-biological
http://www.memeorandum.com/260326/p173#a260326p173

Every SF YIMBY-endorsed supervisor voted for this cruelty, with SF YIMBY's silent, implicit agreement. "Legalize housing" my foot.
https://missionlocal.org/2026/03/sf-rv-ban-housing/

Five months into S.F.’s ban on RVs, 82 former RV dwellers have been housed. Others are now on the street.
Five months into S.F.'s ban on RVs, many have been matched by the city to housing. But several others are now street homeless.

Democratic president should use ICE money for:
- guaranteed jobs program
- workers to build housing
- Healthcare worker
take the money and redirect it.
#uspol

"Denman Rooke has been selected as the People Before Profit candidate to contest the by-election in Galway West.
He is a long-time activist campaigning on issues of worker’s rights, trade unions, anti-racism, climate action, cost of living, and housing."
https://www.

Remind Angus, it's the Pokémon landlords
Not the mums and dads, not the owner occupiers
#CGT #WellDoneAngus #housing

Sources: the US Senate's crypto market structure bill is likely to be delayed by several weeks as key lawmakers shift focus to potential housing legislation (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-21/…

Democrat Khanna refloats bill to block investors from buying up homes after Trump proposal
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/18/trump-khanna-housing-investor-ban.html

The Senate passed a bill Thursday aimed at boosting the supply of housing and bringing down prices,
marking a rare bipartisan breakthrough on a major issue.
The ✅ "21st Century ROAD to Housing Act",
written by Sens. Tim Scott, R-S.C.,
and Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass.,
won 89 votes.
Ten senators voted against it.
Scott is the chairman of the Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee,
and Warren is the ranking member.

Senate passes major housing affordability bill by Elizabeth Warren and Tim Scott
The Senate passed a bill Thursday aimed at boosting the supply of housing and bringing down prices, marking a rare bipartisan breakthrough on a major issue.

FACT FOCUS: A look at false and misleading claims made during Trump's first cabinet meeting of 2026 (Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/fact-check-trump-cabinet-economy-housing-energy-health-california-f4b4fb985300724a7e717863626e5506
http://www.memeorandum.com/260129/p131#a260129p131

"Hey Doug... we bought a bunch of those Stag and Doe tickets so you gotta put a stop on forcing us to build affordable housing..." - Developers who totally didn't buy Ford.
#onpoli #AffordableHousing
https://www.torontotoday.ca/local/city-hall/ford-government-pause-affordable-housing-rules-new-toronto-buildings-11733993

What appears to be a very successful example of district thermal. I wish more states understood the importance of energy efficiency as we transition off fossil fuels.
‘The LED of heating’: cheap geothermal energy system makes US comeback
https://www.…

What appears to be a very successful example of district thermal. I wish more states understood the importance of energy efficiency as we transition off fossil fuels.
‘The LED of heating’: cheap geothermal energy system makes US comeback
https://www.…

Lit-dropped Noe Valley in defense of Prop I and got a solid workout 😅 This is how we're gonna win and preserve funding for social housing. #sfpol
- If you live in SF and haven't sent a letter yet: https://dsasf.org/protectpropi

Save Prop I and Affordable Housing Funds
On Wednesday February 25, billionaire Mayor Daniel Lurie and Supervisor Bilal Mahmood announced a tax cut for wealthy real estate investors. They propose to repeal 2020's Proposition I, which has raised hundreds of millions of dollars for rent relief and affordable housing. Although Prop I revenue has never been fully dedicated to social housing as intended, it has funded over $200 million to help San Franciscans afford housing as of 2024, including $42 million for the strongest Covid rent re…

RE: https://sauropods.win/@futurebird/115922230592810749
If you think building public bathrooms is communism, wait till you hear that actual communism means decommodifying everything, housing, healthcare, education, the whole deal. What you’re describing …

They're talking about government-mandated #RentControl. The article doesn't mention it, because #jermalisms, but we have it in #Canberra. My

Trump housing chief Bill Pulte seeks new DOJ probe of New York AG Letitia James (Vaughn Hillyard/MS NOW)
https://www.ms.now/news/trump-housing-chief-doj-new-york-letitia-james-pulte
http://www.memeorandum.com/260325/p136#a260325p136

Apropos of Denim Dan Lurie's tax break for rich real estate investors... The mayor's brother is a luxury real estate agent, and he told the Chronicle in October that the problem with SF housing was a "mansion shortage."
https://www.sfchronicle.com/reale…

Luckily, the "Family Zoning Plan" offers opportunities for creative real estate agents and developers to meet this need. Look at what happened to the 7 unit building at Jackson and Presidio.
More millionaires than mansions: AI-fueled demand meets ‘egregious shortage’ of inventory
https://sfstanda…

More millionaires than mansions: AI-fueled demand meets ‘egregious shortage’ of inventory
No winter break in the housing market as IPO anticipation drives buyers into a frenzy. 

This is what the market-led policies of Fine Gael and Fianna Fšil have given us. They've put the profits of landlords and investment funds above ordinary people.
That's why I've decided to run in the Galway West by-election. It's time we had a radical shift in housing policy that puts people first.
• Ban Evictions
• Freeze and Reduce Rents
• Build a State Construction Company to deliver quality homes and jobs at the scale we need

Over 17,000 homeless last month in record high
Homeless figures have surpassed 17,000 for the first time.

Health care, new cars and new homes feel unaffordable to most Americans,
a Washington Post-ABC News-Ipsos poll shows.

Most Americans say that they can afford basic necessities like their current housing costs, groceries, utilities and gasoline.
But large numbers across income levels also say larger expenses and the cost of things associated with an enjoyable life
— including taking a weeklong vacation
— are out of reach.
Overall, 53 percent of adults say…

A new car, home feel out of reach for middle-class Americans, poll finds
Most renters — including those earning six figures — doubt they could afford a home in the foreseeable future.

The Trump 'Affordability' Pivot That Never Came (Catherine Rampell/The Bulwark)
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/the-trump-affordability-pivot-that-never-came-state-of-the-union-inflation-housing-stock-market
http://www.memeorandum.com/260225/p127#a260225p127

In a big win for protesters’ rights,
the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit overturned a lower court’s dismissal of a challenge to sweeping warrants to search a protester’s devices and digital data and a nonprofit’s social media data.
The case, "Armendariz v. City of Colorado Springs", arose after a housing protest in 2021,
during which Colorado Springs police arrested protesters for obstructing a roadway.
After the demonstration, police also obtaine…

Victory! Tenth Circuit Finds Fourth Amendment Doesn’t Support Broad Search of Protesters’ Devices and Digital Data
In a big win for protesters’ rights, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit overturned a lower court’s dismissal of a challenge to sweeping warrants to search a protester’s devices and digital data and a nonprofit’s social media data.The case, Armendariz v. City of Colorado Springs, arose...

My draft response to Mayor of London consultation on housing michaeledwards.org.uk

RE: #AffordableHousing problem, he has also presented policy suggestions to government. Not sure they listened but they should have.
Let's increase his follower count so more of us are educated on this important issue. Smash that follow button and boost him to your followers.
#MastodonCanada #EconomicPolicy

Galway City Tribune article announcing my run for the Galway West bye-election.
As most working people know, the current way society is structured is driving us to working long hours often for little pay. It's time that working hard meant having a good life with a secure home.
The successive governments of Fine Gael & Fianna Fšil have put the interests & profits of landlords and investment funds over the needs and housing security of ordinary people.
I've …

White House Offers New Details on Its Push to Ban Housing Investors (Rebecca Picciotto/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/white-house-offers-new-details-on-its-push-to-ban-housing-investors-97fb1829?st=FymPTN&reflink=article_imessage_share
http://www.memeorandum.com/260219/p114#a260219p114

War with Iran drives US mortgage rates higher for fourth-straight week (Samantha Delouya/CNN)
https://www.cnn.com/2026/03/26/economy/mortgage-rates-us-housing-market-iran-war
http://www.memeorandum.com/260326/p129#a260326p129

"The governor’s proposed 2026–27 budget includes no funding for existing affordable housing. Federal housing programs face deep uncertainty. Locally, San Francisco is staring down a structural deficit... In this context, proposals to eliminate transfer taxes and weaken development impact fees...are deliberate choices that would lock in housing scarcity for years to come."

You Can’t Build Abundance by Defunding Housing
Why cutting housing revenue in a moment of scarcity guarantees failure

Alt Text:
“Sarah J. Jackson
@sjjphd.bsky.social
“Someone has sure already made this
observation but the fact they can
convert all those empty warehouses into
prison camps means they could have
converted them into housing,
community centers, job training centers
or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It's
always a matter of will not resources.”

Victator (@vicfroh@mastodon.social)
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"Continuum of Care"
is the federal government’s flagship program to support state and local governments and non-profits in funding housing and other services for individuals at risk of or experiencing homelessness.
The program is built on the principle that getting unhoused people housed can get them on a path to address other challenges.
But in the past months, the Trump administration has tried to issue sweeping policy shifts to the program,
some of which…

This is clearly timed to take the heat off Mahmood after he introduced legislation to slash $100 million a year in funding for affordable housing.
There’s a new streamlining bill or measure every year, and we’re clearly hitting diminishing returns. Meanwhile all over the city thousands of affordable homes are stalled for lack of funding. Want to speed up housing? Fund it.

S.F. supervisor to ‘explore’ ballot measure to speed up housing
Bilal Mahmood wants to address the bottlenecks created by having five separate departments involved in issuing building permits

Austin's Surge of New Housing Construction Drove Down Rents (The Pew Charitable Trusts)
https://www.pew.org/en/research-and-analysis/articles/2026/03/18/austins-surge-of-new-housing-construction-drove-down-rents
http://www.memeorandum.com/260318/p58#a260318p58

This is why I don't fully trust 48hills, even though they're on "my side" in being pro-labor and anti-billionaire. Tim Redmond thinks it's a good thing that a 100% affordable housing development was forced to lop a floor off to preserve views 😫
"The staff reached out to the neighbors,[...]took feedback, and as a result made some changes that lowered the height of the new buildings. That, in a reasonable world, is how this should work" No it's not!!…

Supes approve affordable senior housing project—but discussion raises larger issue - 48 hills
Nonprofit housers are good neighbors. Speculators are not. But Wiener's law treats both the same way

Trump is pressuring the Hill on voter verification -- but not his own housing plan (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/03/18/trump-is-pressuring-the-hill-on-voter-verification-but-not-his-own-housing-plan-00833228
http://www.memeorandum.com/260318/p14#a260318p14

To house the hundreds or thousands of temporary workers needed to build an AI data center, developers are increasingly relying on temporary villages known as "man camps".
This style of camp was popularized as housing for men working in remote oil fields.
For example, as a Bitcoin mining facility in rural Dickens County, Texas is converted into a 1.6 gigawatt data center, Bloomberg reports its workers are living in gray housing units with access to a gym, a laundromat, g…

Owner of ICE detention facility sees big opportunity in AI man camps | TechCrunch
AI data center developers are increasingly relying on a style of camp popularized as housing for men working in remote oil fields.

Trump goes his own way on housing (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/03/13/trump-goes-his-own-way-on-housing-00829047
http://www.memeorandum.com/260314/p44#a260314p44

Trump is on his way to Davos, where his quest to own Greenland could overshadow his other goals (Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/trump-davos-housing-greenland-gaza-a2f3f4c18ba321c8025a3e208fc0ddf6
http://www.memeorandum.com/260121/p106#a260121p106

"Trump supporters report higher levels of psychopathy, manipulativeness, callousness, and narcissism"
...
"Trump fans are much angrier about housing assistance when they see an image of a black man
In contrast, Clinton supporters seemed relatively unmoved by racial cues"
https://www.…

Study: Trump fans are much angrier about housing assistance when they see an image of a black man
In contrast, Clinton supporters seemed relatively unmoved by racial cues.

Capitol agenda: House revolt ahead for housing bill (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2026/03/12/congress/housing-affordability-bill-senate-vote-00824598
http://www.memeorandum.com/260312/p26#a260312p26

Senate passes major housing affordability bill by Elizabeth Warren and Tim Scott (NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/senate-passes-major-housing-affordability-bill-warren-scott-rcna263046
http://www.memeorandum.com/260312/p93#a260312p93

Probable cause affidavit details timeline of stolen ambulance crash at Meridian building housing DHS (KTFT)
https://www.ktvb.com/article/news/crime/police-boise-woman-arrested-stolen-ambulance-crash-meridian-dhs-office-building/277-3ac560e7-a05a-4815-96a2-63bf1f7c2d5c
http://www.memeorandum.com/260224/p126#a260224p126

The real reason people move to red states
The “U-Haul index” does not prove a point -- or at least the point the WaPo Editorial Board makes.
Yes, people are moving from more expensive to less expensive areas,
but why are those areas more expensive?
Many factors play into the calculation, but one is obvious and significant:
Real estate is more expensive where people want to live.
Tax rates by themselves don’t make real estate expensive;
ultimate…

The real reason people move to red states
Housing, money and the cure to loneliness, in readers’ eyes.

Trump housing official seeks new DOJ prosecution of Letitia James (NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/bill-pulte-criminal-referrals-doj-letitia-james-ny-attorney-general-rcna265216
http://www.memeorandum.com/260325/p155#a260325p155

SF YIMBY has endorsed Alan Wong, whose whole campaign is about reopening the Great Highway, after previously endorsing Stephen Sherrill who's doing everything he can to block Marina Safeway housing. They are just a mod Dem club. Housing and urbanism are their marketing pitch, not their goal. #sfpol

Bondi Is Said to Move to Military Housing Because of Threats (Glenn Thrush/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/10/us/politics/bondi-military-housing-threats.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260310/p150#a260310p150

Bronx building Mamdani used to showcase new housing commish's talents has 200 violations -- after favored nonprofit ran it into the ground (Rich Calder/New York Post)
https://nypost.com/2026/01/11/us-news/bronx-building-mamdani-highlighted-to-showcase-nycs-new-housing-commissioners-talents-has-nearly-200-violations/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260111/p67#a260111p67

If I were voting today in D4 I'd rank Jeremy Greco first because he's the only pro–Sunset Dunes candidate and seems cool generally; he's a longtime co-op worker at Other Avenues and wants to make it easier to start co-ops.
I'd rank Natalie Gee second. It sucks she wants to turn the park back into a highway, but so do all the non-Jeremy candidates, and she's the only one I trust to tax the rich to build affordable housing.

Meet the District 4 Candidates: What is your No. 1 issue?
Some say the Sunset needs to be more affordable. Some say it needs more police. They all want to be District 4’s next supervisor.

Immigrant families protest inside Texas facility housing 5-year-old boy, father detained in Minnesota (Berenice Garcia/Associated Press)
https://www.texastribune.org/2026/01/24/immigration-facility-protest-texas-liam-conejo-ramos/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260125/p17#a260125p17

"Open land represents the future in its purest form — after all, every place was no place at some point." 😑 This is such a distilled expression of settler-colonial mindset. No, we do not need "new" cities, we need to fix up the ones we've got.
https://www.

Maybe America Needs Some New Cities
It sounds a bit kooky to promise a whole city from scratch. But it has been done before — and might just help solve the housing crisis.

Newly sworn-in Virginia Governor #Abigail #Spanberger signed
10 executive orders in her first official act at the Virginia State Capitol.
Three of the orders target
✅reducing cost-of-living expenses for Virginia families,
✅bringing down healthcare costs
✅and making it easier to build more…

Money, Education, Immigration: Virginia Governor Abigail Spanberger just signed 10 executive orders
Virginia Governor Abigail Spanberger signed 10 executive orders on her first day, targeting cost of living, healthcare, housing and education issues.

Capitol agenda: House hard-liner headaches ahead (Mia McCarthy/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2026/03/17/congress/house-conservatives-fisa-housing-save-america-act-elections-00831120
http://www.memeorandum.com/260317/p31#a260317p31

Zohran Mamdani stands by 'housing justice' appointee Cea Weaver -- as Trump admin warns he 'should be on notice' (New York Post)
https://nypost.com/2026/01/06/us-news/zohran-mamdani-stands-by-housing-justice-appointee-cea-weaver/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260106/p115#a260106p115

How the money spent on Trump's Iran war could have helped Americans (Philip Bump/MS NOW)
https://www.ms.now/opinion/trump-iran-war-11-billion-income-housing
http://www.memeorandum.com/260314/p71#a260314p71

I'm shocked, shocked, that waiving the transfer tax on downtown office to residential conversions did not result in a single such conversion happening.
Well, not that shocked. (The real point of March 2024 Prop C was the sneaky provision letting the SFBOS reduce the transfer tax altogether without an election. Not to produce housing but to cut downtown landlords' taxes.)

Kind of a cool proposal in terms of squeezing density onto a slim site, but I wish it didn't have 10 parking spaces for 11 units. That much parking shouldn't be allowed so close to BART, inducing more driving trips on Guerrero which is already a traffic sewer.
https://missionlocal…

Mission BUZZ: Housing, a brewery and an owner who stands her ground on cannabis
Los Tigres del Norte received the keys of the city from Mayor Daniel Lurie. Lover's Lane is back for its fifth straight year.

Trump Moves to Ban Big Investors From Buying Single-Family Homes (Alyssa Lukpat/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/economy/housing/trump-moves-to-ban-investors-from-buying-single-family-homes-13e06f61
http://www.memeorandum.com/260107/p91#a260107p91