OTTAWA (Reuters) - Buying a house may remain out of reach for many Canadians for the foreseeable future, with mortgage costs unlikely to fall enough to offset lofty home prices and weak spending power, economists and real estate agents say. Even with expectations that ...
Could This Micro Dwelling in Disguise Help Solve the Housing Crisis? August 14, 2017 © Jim Stephenson London’s first Antepavillion officially opened to the public last weekend, kicking off an annual series of experimental structures set to explore alternative ways of living in the city. ...
Around the world, cities face intensified demands for resilience, preservation, and innovation as they address challenges from the climate crisis to cultural heritage conservation. These initiatives illustrate a global trend in urban planning, where sustainability, adaptability, and inclusive community ...
Little did we imagine that this would in fact become declared and intended policy of this National/ACT/NZ First government (not in the midst of a crisis, where sometimes these things happen, but as a whole new policy tool). I’m not generally an ACT fan, but……you have to wonder wha...
Carol Frazey, a member of the Whatcom County Council, said she appreciated the time and hard work that the committee has put into developing a plan. But Frazey said that she isn’t aware of any plans for the council to declare a housing crisis, largely because the majority of new construc...
only 0.3% of homes in Austin were in foreclosure, compared with 0.4% for the nation. Although local delinquencies were higher at 4.1% in October versus 3.2% nationally, most delinquencies do not make it to the foreclosure process as quickly as they did during the financial crisis of 2007-200...
February 14, 2025 Introduced by Assemblymember Rick Chavez Zbur, AB 648 will combat housing insecurity and homelessness among community college students while also addressing California’s broader housing crisis by increasing the supply of affordable housing in local communities. ...
“There’s a huge affordability crisis at a level we’ve never seen before,” Michael Polzler, CEO of RE/MAX Europe, toldFortune. A fifth of respondents to RE/MAX’s survey said they were either struggling or really struggling to afford their housing ...
Since the US subprime mortgage crisis in 2007, the impact of credit on property wealth has received widespread attention from academics and policymakers, with a large number of studies on the relationship between property credit and housing prices, and between property credit and consumption (Cerutti...
Research by Maroto and Severson (2020) [40] suggested that the proportion of young adults living at home has increased in Canada since 2001. We cannot support these findings in Sweden. The distribution between municipalities regarding the proportion of households with young adults at home is relati...