Posts Tagged ‘housing’

Housing Affordability Worsens As Homeownership Out Of Reach For Anyone Making Under $100k

The US housing affordability crisis continues to worsen as mortgage rates skyrocket to two-decade highs while the cost of an average home is still at bubbly levels. Financing costs are through the roof, and anyone earning less than $100,000 has been priced out of homeownership.  Source

Amsterdam: Housing justice now!

Amsterdam: Housing justice now! Our Demands from newly occupied Nieuwezijds Voorburgwal 302 – Oct 23rd, 2022 e Mokum Kraakt via squat.net/ and thefreeonline Sunday 23 october, rolling out a giant banner, squatters’ collective Mokum Kraakt announced that it has squatted four days ago Nieuwezijds Voorburgwal 302. House peace is set, preventing the police to immediately evict. […]

Fed Chair Says Housing Price ‘Correction’ Would Put Market in Better Balance

Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell said that the U.S. housing market will probably face a reset after a period of “red hot” price increases that have put home ownership out of reach for many Americans. The average contract rate for a 30-year fixed rate mortgage had already hit an historically high 6.25 percent last week […]

Fed Chair Says Housing Price ‘Correction’ Would Put Market in Better Balance

Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell said that the U.S. housing market will probably face a reset after a period of “red hot” price increases that have put home ownership out of reach for many Americans. The average contract rate for a 30-year fixed rate mortgage had already hit an historically high 6.25 percent last week […]

About 2,000 National Housing Movement rural units to be inaugurated in Zanjan

TEHRAN- As announced by a provincial official, about 2,000 units of National Housing Movement will be soon inaugurated in the rural areas of Zanjan province. Reza Khajeie, the director-general of the province’s Housing Department, also said that the construction operation of 4,000 units of National Housing Movement has already started in the province. After National […]

Over 1,900 National Housing Movement units under construction in Ardebil province

TEHRAN- As announced by a provincial official, 1,967 units of the National Housing Movement are under construction in Ardebil province, northwest of Iran. Farhad Sobhani, the director-general of the province’s Housing Department, said that of the 1,967 mentioned units, 415 units are in the skeleton completion stage. After National Housing Action Plan (started in 2018), […]

Martha’s Vineyard, with Tons of Empty Summer Homes, Claims ‘Housing Crisis’ when Illegal Aliens Arrive

Martha’s Vineyard residents are claiming that a “housing crisis” prevents them from properly housing illegal aliens on the elite coastal island. At the same time, tons of sprawling summer estates, owned by the wealthy, sit empty and are readily available as makeshift shelters. Late last week, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) sent two planes full […]

Housing and Crime Major Issues as Tory Seeks Third Term as Toronto’s Mayor

Seeking a third term as mayor of Toronto, John Tory is the candidate with the most name recognition, but with pressing issues like the high cost of housing, crime, and transit facing Canada’s biggest city, 30 others have joined the contest to challenge him. When announcing his renewed candidacy in May, the 68-year-old said he […]

New York City Housing Authority Randomly Sends Tenant’s Private Financial Data to Reporter

NEW YORK, NY – FEBRUARY 15: Public housing residents and their supporters rally to demand New York City Housing Authority conditions be improved, outside of City Hall, February 15, 2017 in New York City. (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images On a Wednesday afternoon in April, according to a report from The City, during a routine […]

Protest against displacement of housing and livelihoods calls for halt to evictions

While evictions of the poor from their huts and small houses should be avoided as far as possible in all circumstances, the situation since the pandemic appeared has been all the more difficult for the weaker sections as they suffered very big losses in earnings and employment. What is more weather conditions have also been […]

New York Housing Plan For Illegal Migrants Bused From Texas Falls Apart

Renegade Editor’s Note: Don’t be misled by stories like this. Gov. Abbot is a best friend of Israel and jewish supremacists, which means he is no friend of ours. (ZH) New York is struggling to come up with a plan to deal with thousands of illegal immigrants being bused in from Texas, and the costs […]

New York Housing Plan For Illegal Migrants Bused From Texas Falls Apart

Renegade Editor’s Note: Don’t be misled by stories like this. Gov. Abbot is a best friend of Israel and jewish supremacists, which means he is no friend of ours. (ZH) New York is struggling to come up with a plan to deal with thousands of illegal immigrants being bused in from Texas, and the costs […]

Housing Market in Regional Australia Continues to Grow While Prices Fall in Capital Cities

Regional South Australia has seen its housing market reach a new peak, with property prices in the area hitting “significant growth” as home prices continue to fall across the country, according to PropTrack’s latest report. Meanwhile, Adelaide was the last capital city to record a price fall this year, making it the strongest performing capital […]

Breitbart Business Digest: How to Build an Antiracist Housing Bubble

When the housing bubble of the first decade of the twenty-first century burst, there was widespread agreement that one of the culprits was mortgages that required little or no money down. Bad ideas, of course, never really die. They just fade away for a time, waiting in the shadows to emerge again, like the mysterious […]

UNAFFORDABLE HOUSING: US home rental rates set new record for 17th straight month

(Natural News) Rental housing rates have set another record high for the 17th straight month, with the median monthly rent in the 50 largest metropolitan areas jumping to $1,879 in July. This is up 12.3 percent from 2021 based on data from Realtor.com and across listings for studios, one-bedroom and two-bedroom dwellings. Meaning, larger apartments and houses […]

UNAFFORDABLE HOUSING: US home rental rates set new record for 17th straight month

(Natural News) Rental housing rates have set another record high for the 17th straight month, with the median monthly rent in the 50 largest metropolitan areas jumping to $1,879 in July. This is up 12.3 percent from 2021 based on data from Realtor.com and across listings for studios, one-bedroom and two-bedroom dwellings. Meaning, larger apartments and houses […]

New single-family home sales plunge to 6 1/2 year low as mortgage rates and housing prices continue to rise

(NaturalNews) (Natural News) New home sales in the United States for single-family units plunged to a six-and-a-half-year low in July as increasingly high mortgage rates and house prices and the downturn in the American economy are preventing first-time homebuyers from entering the market.The report came from the Census Bureau of the Department of … [Read More…] […]

Relief Foundation to build 32,000 housing units for deprived

TEHRAN – The Imam Khomeini Relief Foundation will construct 32,000 housing units for the deprived rural residents by the end of the current [Iranian calendar] year (March 21, 2023). Source

Average housing price stands at $1,489 per sq.m. in Tehran city: SCI

TEHRAN- The Statistical Center of Iran put the average price for one square meter of a residential unit in Tehran city at 414 million rials (about $1,489) in the third Iranian calendar month Khordad (ended on June 21). Source

Housing Starts Collapse in May As Inflation and Soaring Interest Rates Hit Hard

Home builders slammed on the brakes in May as interest rates and inflation soared.

Expert: Housing Market Most Constricted Since 2006, Purchase Applications Down 40%

A Fannie Mae economist predicts the most constricted housing market in the United States since 2006 and will continue to worsen.

Joe Biden’s HUD Task Force Issues Report on ‘Racial and Ethnic Bias’ in Housing Appraisals

Joe Biden’s Housing and Urban Development (HUD) has issued a report that claims “racial and ethnic bias” in the housing appraisal process.

Biden’s Afghan Refugees Struggle to Find Housing, Help After Being Dumped in California

Afghan refugees dumped into California are struggling to find housing and other help needed to get settled in a new country.

EpochTV Review: California Housing Crisis

Commentary In this episode of California Insider, host Siyamak Khorrami interviews real estate developer Casey McKeon in “California’s Workforce Housing Program Explained.” Many cities in California are already offering or considering offering workforce housing. In these programs, the city purchases rental properties and offers them to middle-class families at discounted rates. The problem with these […]

Protests Demanding Affordable Housing Surge In The Netherlands

On Sunday, November 28, housing rights groups and other progressive sections in the Dutch city of Groningen marched under the banner #Woonstrijd to protest the acute housing crisis in the city. Various groups including Shelter Our Students (SOS), International Socialists Groningen, New Communist Party of the Netherlands (NCPN),  Communist Youth Movement (CJB), RED Groningen, Young […]

Howard University Students Protesting Housing Conditions

Above Photo: Dozens of students have been camped outside the Blackburn University Center since Oct. 12 in protest of unsanitary living conditions at Howard University. Elliot C. Williams / DCist/WAMU. In an open letter published Tuesday, Howard University President Wayne A. I. Frederick wrote that students’ two-week occupation of a campus building in protest of […]

Maryland Senior Housing Shooting Kills 2; Suspect Held

CAPITOL HEIGHTS, Md.—Two staff members were fatally shot Friday at a Maryland apartment complex for seniors just outside of Washington and a suspect was taken into custody, police said. The shooting happened shortly after 9 a.m. at Gateway Village in Capitol Heights, Prince George’s County and Capitol Heights police said. Both victims were women—one found […]

Spain’s government eyes rent controls in new housing bill

Spain’s left-wing ruling coalition wants to rein in soaring housing costs by imposing rent increase caps on landlords who own 10 or more residential properties. Opposition parties and leaders of business organisations have criticised the proposal as an improper intervention in the free market by Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez’s government. Government ministers approved draft […]

Berliners back seizing housing from so-called mega landlords

Berliners have backed one of Europe’s most radical responses to gentrification: seizing property from so-called mega landlords. In a referendum timed to coincide with Germany’s general election on Sunday, locals supported expropriation by 56% to 39%. “It’s nearly impossible to describe this feeling,” Kalle Kunkel, an activist for Berlin’s Expropriate Deutsche Wohnen campaign, told Euronews. […]

Elderly Christian Woman Beaten for Housing Converts from Islam

Harriet Namuganza, 83, was attacked in Iganga, Uganda for housing two Christians who had left Islam. (Morning Star News) NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – An 83-year-old Christian woman in eastern Uganda continues to receive hospital treatment two weeks after Islamic extremists, one posing as a pastor, attacked her, sources said. Harriet Namuganza had given refuge […]

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