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🛣️ Albuquerque’s Route 66 Motels Are Turning Into Affordable Housing
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Albuquerque's Route 66 Motels Are Turning Into Affordable Housing
Amid the ongoing housing crisis, once-dilapidated buildings are finding new life as homes for immigrants and other working-class New Mexicans.

Gentrification feedback loop. As SF displaces its working class, Area Median Income rises, raising the rent levels for “affordable” housing, which further displaces and excludes working-class households, so AMI rises again… and a 1-bedroom for $2,900 is now defined as low-income housing.
#sfpol #housing

This is very cool!
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📉 Home, but not safe: How poor housing is harming health
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Home, but not safe: How poor housing is harming health
When Israelis think about health, they may picture hospitals, doctors, or the rising cost of prescription drugs. But a new integrative study by Jordan Hannink Attal (Hebrew University and the University of Melbourne) and Prof. Yehuda Neumark (Hebrew University) suggests the most important factor may be much closer to home—literally.

Just came from a public comment session at the Planning Commission that was pretty depressing in terms of what the YIMBY movement in SF has become, and how far it has fallen from its original ideal of housing for everyone. #sfpol #housing
SF YIMBY mobilized speaker after speaker to call for cutting $4…

🏗️ Tear it down they said... but he kept on building
(looks like China has an answer to the Watts Towers!)
#buildings #housing #china

Tear It Down, They Said. He Just Kept Building.
Defying demolition orders, a Chinese man turned his home into a rickety 11-story tower. Now tourists are coming.

housing ownership law possibilities
Should we maybe have a law that says any one person or entity can only own a max of 2 houses? Or that you can only own 1 not being lived in by your immediate family?
I can see several reasonable use cases for having 1 extra house, including when an old person dies and the family takes a while to decide what's happening with their previous house. And we could debate those cases, and maybe even decide it's not worth arguing over 2 or 3 extra, because that isn't the biggest problem.
But I think we could possibly mostly agree that having one person or company own 5 or 10 or 50 or 500 houses just to extract profit from them is not good for overall wellbeing.
#housing #law #HouseOwnership #HousingMarket #renting #RentalMarket