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"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

Ever wondered what it would be like to live in a neighborhood that wasn’t designed around cars?
Well - in most of the country that’s actually illegal.
But in Tempe, AZ there’s a new development called Culdesac
that has managed to make it happen.
This community is designed around alternative transit first,
which means more land is freed up for housing, retail and open space
- and it seems to be working
As more modes of transportation become avail…

https://www.derstandard.at/story/3000000298932/ex-wohnungsloser-eine-kuchl-und-eine-couch-mehr-brauche-ich-nicht

Ex-Wohnungsloser: "Eine Kuchl und eine Couch, mehr brauche ich nicht"
Helmut F. lebt im zehnten Wiener Bezirk. In seine aktuelle Wohnung kam der ehemals wohnungslose Mann über Neunerhaus und das Housing-First-Modell

BAIA, quien nos iba a decir que facilitando el acceso a una vivienda a personas sin hogar les iba a servir para rehacer su vida https://thebetter.news/housing-first-finland-homelessness/
Relacionado con esto, ayer estuve viendo "Yo, Daniel Blake" de Ken Loach …

Just as during his first term, El Cheato is stealing money for military housing to use for his pet projects.
During the first term that pet project was "the wall".
Now it is to give "bonuses" to active military personnel.
In both cases this means reduced, or no, housing for military families - which is what Congress intended when that taxpayer money was appropriated.
"Trump’s $1,776 ‘warrior dividend’ repurposed from military housing aid"…

Mr. Mamdani, a democratic socialist who ran on an #affordability agenda,
pledged during the campaign to freeze rent on the city’s nearly one million rent-stabilized apartments.
“We know we are fighting for a #rent #freeze…

Mamdani’s First Orders Focus on Housing and Undoing Adams’s Decisions
Mayor Zohran Mamdani signed a flurry of executive orders on his first day as mayor of New York City. They were aimed at protecting tenants and revoking some of ex-Mayor Eric Adams’s past orders.

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

"In a major shift, HUD’s plan would direct most of the $3.5 billion in homelessness funds away from Housing First to programs that prioritize work and drug treatment."
Trump Administration to Drastically Cut Housing Grants - The New York Times
https://archive.ph/54oxw

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…

Trump Says ‘Housing First’ Failed the Homeless. Here’s What the Evidence Says.
The Trump administration has sought to move away from the model, which supporters call “evidence based” but opponents consider overly permissive.

"Philippines commissions 6.5 MW solar project for social housing"
#Philippines #SolarPower #Energy #Renewables

Philippines commissions 6.5 MW solar project for social housing
The 6.55 MW project, hailed as the world’s first grid-connected, solar rooftop project within a social housing community, equipped almost 2,000 houses with solar panels.

Rare good news for now, but don't trust the Planning Inspectorate to uphold the rejection.
Scheme to build 2,150 homes in Greater Manchester countryside REJECTED - Manchester Evening News
https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/scheme-build…

Scheme to build 2,150 homes in Greater Manchester countryside REJECTED
The controversial housing plan has been a point of contention ever since it was first touted almost a decade ago

oooof. this incumbent running for re-election to the SF Bike Coalition board is literally a landlord lawyer.
if you're a member, the voting details are here and there are 10 candidates for 8 seats. https://sfbike.org/news/meet-the-candidat…

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.