#housing-policy

#housing-policy

Zohran Mamdani became mayor of New York City on Thursday, taking over one of the most unrelenting jobs in American politics with a promise to transform government on behalf of the city's striving, struggling working class.

For many people in Catalonia, the housing market no longer feels like a place to find a home - it feels like a battlefield. Rising rents, limited supply and investor-driven buying have pushed housing anxiety to the forefront of daily life. Now, the Catalan government says it wants to push back. The regional executive is preparing a new law aimed at curbing speculative property purchases, using taxation rather than outright bans.

"It's so poignant, so important not just for the Asian community but for all people in San Francisco to know hat hate and discrimination like that doesn't have a place in the city," said Lee's daughter, Tania Lee.

"New York City, long positioned at the forefront of housing innovation, is falling behind," the author writes. "The most effective innovations happen when residents are treated as partners with authority and vision." Across the U.S. and around the world, everyday people-tenants, workers, organizers-are transforming the future of housing in their cities and catalyzing positive change. New York City, long positioned at the forefront of housing innovation, is falling behind.

As the economy emerges as a likely defining issue in next year's midterm elections, President Trump has wrestled with Americans' rising cost of living, declaring himself the "affordability president," then soon dismissing the issue as something that "does not mean anything to anybody." At two White House events this week, the president accused Democrats of pushing a "fake narrative" about affordability to trick voters ahead of the election, calling them "great con people" who do not offer details about how they intend to lower prices.

The fascists are here. They're invading our cities, crashing our economy and stealing our futures to sell them to the first bidder,

In a one-hour session, the mayor-elect, his Chief of Staff Elle Bisgaard Church, and First Deputy Mayor-designate Dean Fuleihan met with Mayor Adams to discuss the transition between the administrations. The Mayor-elect met with the sitting Mayor to continue the work of the transition, and ensure all city services are provided without disruption through the change in leadership on Jan. 1, Monica Klein, spokesperson for the Mamdani Transition, said in a statement.

Montano is a retired schoolteacher who has long been a figure in Milpitas public office. She served for eight years as a school board trustee for Milpitas Unified School District starting in 2000, before being elected to city council in 2012, where she served for two non-consecutive terms. In 2022, Montano made history when she became the first woman to be elected mayor of Milpitas, and in 2024 was re-elected in a close race with a crowded field of four candidates.

Young people leaving care in England face a sharper increase in homelessness compared to the population more broadly, latest figures show. It comes after warnings the youngest care leavers face a "devastating care cliff", which sees them losing support when they turn 18 and leave care, as well as difficulties with joblessness. Children's Commissioner for England Rachel De Souza told the BBC she was concerned the government were not providing care leavers with adequate long-term support.

I think for housing to continue growing successfully, it has to be led by our towns, it has to be led by our first selectmen, it has to be led by our mayors, Lamont said at a news conference. I just don't think it works if it's us against them. After months of negotiations, the Connecticut Conference of Municipalities and Council of Small Towns backed the new bill alongside the governor.

The intent is noble most mortgage borrowers are indeed locked in by low interest rates from the pandemic, draining liquidity from the housing market and not allowing these borrowers to relocate when they should. The reality is more complicated this one-time fix is very hard to implement, would potentially cost MBS investors hundreds of billions, and could make GSE IPOs unviable. Instead, the FHFA should lay the groundwork for us not to have this conversation next time around.

Chan has a path to victory: She will have support from labor unions around the country, and will be able to raise all the money she needs. She would be the first immigrant and first Asian to represent San Francisco in Congress. As the threat of housing demolitions and small business displacement because of Wiener's legislation hits the Sunset and Richmond, the senator may lose popularity.

The policy, which is co-sponsored by Councilors Mitch Green and Tiffany Koyama Lane, is intended to address a tool that allows large building owners to share private data through software that collectively sets rent prices. Antitrust experts and tenant advocates say the property management software companies-and the landlords that contract with them-are skirting federal price-fixing law by using the algorithmic tool. They say the software enables landlords to essentially collude with one another to keep rents artificially high.

I am proud of the Prison Reform Omnibus bill that passed at the end of session. New York's prisons have been plagued by a systemic pattern of violence toward incarcerated individuals, with little accountability or oversight. Within the last year, correction officers murdered two incarcerated men. The civil rights of incarcerated New Yorkers are routinely violated. The situation in our state's prisons is an emergency. This bill is a crucial step toward ending this violence.

Nearly three years after the state's deadline, a Bay Area county and three cities across the region still haven't finalized their state-mandated housing plans, leaving them vulnerable to fines, loss of grant funding and the dreaded "builder's remedy," which can cost them control over land use decisions. San Mateo County and the cities of Half Moon Bay, Belvedere and Clayton have yet to secure state approval for their plans, which were due by Jan. 31, 2023.

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our latest documentary, 'The A Word', which shines a light on the American women fighting for reproductive rights, we know how important it is to parse out the facts from the messaging.

On this episode, Tabitha Monahan and Cónal Thomas from the Irish Independent political team break down the Government's new housing policy that strangely has no annual targets. Can it finally solve the crisis or is it set to fail? As Fianna Fáil's presidential fiasco shows no sign of going away, is it in danger of becoming a "perma-crisis" for Taoiseach Micheál Martin?

Most people who take out mortgages go with a 30-year term. But President Trump wants the federal government to back a 50-year mortgage option for homebuyers a plan that would be "a complete game changer," according to Federal Housing Finance Agency Director Bill Pulte. Backers of the idea say it could help more prospective buyers get into a home they might not otherwise afford.

Policies rooted in equity, a billion dollar bond for affordable housing, install city-owned solar panels, create green union jobs, and fund alternative crisis response service. She's pushing other things too about affordability and fast-tracking shelter space when the other mayor cleared everybody out, the homeless encampments, she wants to change the way police do their job and their tactics. Sounds a little bit no it doesn't, it sounds a lot about what we've heard in New York.

Revenue will be given the powers to collect a proposed new derelict site tax of at least 7pc, under plans to boost housing supply.

You forgot to finish with the famous line from the movie Network: And I'm not going to take it anymore. The editorial highlighted every major issue during our pariah president's tenure, but characterizing Silicon Valley's business bosses as appeasing and capitulating is as ill as Pam Bondi's nose in South Park. Call them what they are: gutless, spineless miscreants, driven only by money, who bend the knee to the autocracy.

Hundreds of community association leaders visited Capitol Hill this past Thursday for the Congressional Advocacy Summit hosted by the Community Associations Institute (CAI). More than 200 advocates from CAI representing more than 77 million homeowners association, condominium and co-op residents met with members of Congress and their staff to discuss federal issues in those sectors. Meetings with legislators addressed access to affordable insurance, disaster recovery, affordable housing, preservation of community self-governance and other policies affecting community associations nationwide.

California YIMBY, an organization founded eight years ago to promote housing construction in response to an ever-increasing gap between demand and supply, held a victory party in San Francisco recently. Welcome to the most victorious of California YIMBY's victory parties, Brian Hanlon, founder and CEO of the organization, told attendees. Its acronym (Yes In My Backyard) symbolizes its years-long battle with NIMBYs (Not in My Backyard), people and groups who have long thwarted housing projects by pressuring local governments that control land use.