#housing-crisis

#housing-crisis

The MICROHOME Kingspan Edition encourages architects to innovate compact, affordable, and sustainable housing solutions amidst rising property costs and a growing global housing crisis.

The planning sector faces mounting challenges due to insufficient professionals, leading to increased workloads and potential burnout among current staff, as retirements loom.

Rachel Hartigan acknowledged the challenges of youth in politics, stating, 'Often, voters were stunned to see someone my age running; they questioned my credibility at first.'

Despite the slowdown in overall homebuilding in Greenwich, affordable housing is rising, with three-quarters of new developments designated as affordable, marking an eight-year high.

The current proposed ground lease legislation poses a threat to the equity of co-op owners in New York, potentially erasing billions in generational wealth.

"We are now in discussions with our lawyers, my expectation is that we will have to consider a formal legal challenge to the decision made by the Home Office."

Housebuilders who fail to meet new delivery time frames may have their land handed over to councils and face significant penalties.

"They're saying it's going to cost $5 million to rebuild the house that cost a third of that. We just don't have the finances..."

With the new change in the Central SoMa Plan allowing for more housing, the 88 Bluxome site formerly proposed for office space is now set to host residential towers.

Mayo County Council official Tom Gilligan faced backlash for a proposal to boycott holiday-home owners, as community members express concern about the impact on local housing.

It is not fair to keep making ordinary citizens subsidize the profits of large developers. High-risk pools should pay the real costs of their projects by themselves.