Jair Bolsonaro’s far-right rule was a dark time for social movements in Brazil.

Since Lula’s return to power, housing activists have had a renewed role not just in the streets but in setting government policy.
https://jacobin.com/2026/04/brazil-lula-housing-youth-social-movements

#left #LeftWing #leftist #LulaDaSilva #Lula2026 #Democracy #SocialJustice #SocialMovement #MTST #Housing #HomelessWorkersMovement #brazil

Two local men promised to build housing with a 3D printer. That didn’t pan out.

When reporter Molly Parker started to investigate what went wrong, she found the printer disassembled on a flatbed truck at a country repair shop.

Then things got weird.
https://www.propublica.org/article/3d-printer-cairo-illinois-housing?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Illinois #Housing #3DPrinting #House #FBI #Journalism

#Spanberger called Trump’s #tariffs a “massive tax hike on you & your family,” & argued that congressional #Republicans were making life more #expensive & “making it more difficult to see a #doctor” while driving up the costs of #energy & #housing.

And she said that while Trump’s policies were hurting “regular Americans,” they were helping himself & his allies.

#Trump #SOTU #USpol

😂 😂 😂

We just had a blizzard in the Northeast #USA and in #NYC a news reporter just wanted some empty chatter about the weather

But her interview subject had other ideas

#Housing #HumanRights

"Rebuilding isn’t about recovery; it’s a performance of continuity. Loss only counts if you can prove you want it back."

Anthony Dinh Tran for Los Angeles Review of Books: https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/eaton-fire-altadena-house-rebuilding-insurance-damages/

#Longreads #Essay #Altadena #LosAngeles #Fire #Rebuilding #Recovery #Home #Housing

The warmongers spent eight trillion dollars to drop bombs on weddings, fatten defense contractors, and provide medical care for maimed soldiers ... but building homes for the homeless and poor would be evil socialism and we can't have that. In effect what is being implied is that we can't build homes for the poor, but we should instead use that money to bomb foreign nations for so-called democracy.

The money spent on military conquest could have built 80 million houses and provided millions of good, temporary jobs in construction.

In fact the money spent on the conquests in Iraq and Afghanistan could have made a quarter of Americans home owners.

The so-called government of this country HATES the people. And it shows. They are thieving, murdering liars and thugs full of active and chronic hatred and malice toward the people. We live in another Catholic-styled dark age, where the tax collectors and creditors rob the people and use the money to sniff out heretics.

I realize it is too much to ask. I realize you will all waste your energy whining about crap that doesn't matter, like entitlement programs and imaginary racism, instead of doing the things that actually build people up, like giving them a roof over their head free of the encumbrance of debt.

The government forces a fragmentation economy on the people that forces millions to move away from their families and home towns just to find work and housing, then calls it 'socialism' to build houses for the people they have intentionally uprooted. Sick. Just sick and evil.

#homeless #housing #war #economy

It's a tiny comfort to know the current struggle with housing supply and landlords has happened before. Rebecca Rogers died in Kent, UK in 1688. Of all the things about Rebecca's life that could serve as her epitaph, she (or her family) chose to carve this on the gravestone:

"A house she hath, 'tis made of such good fashion
The tenant ne'er shall pay for reparation [repairs]
Nor will her landlord ever raise her rent
Or turn her out of doors for non-payment:
From chimney-tax this cell's forever free –
To such a house, who would not tenant be?"

Rest in power, Rebecca.

(source: https://archive.org/details/gleaningsfromha00bombgoog)
#housing #housingcrisis #landlord #rent #UK #epitaph #death #darkhumor #tenantrights #costofliving #quote #quotes #internetarchive

#Housing official #BillPulte fired #ethics workers who were looking into his ally

The actions have also sowed uncertainty & undermined confidence in Pulte across the #mortgage industry.

…Relatively unknown before joining the #Trump admin, Pulte has built tremendous influence since he was sworn in in March. He has also raised unproven claims of mortgage fraud against several of Trump’s perceived enemies.

#law #FHFA
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/11/10/bill-pulte-fannie-mae-firing-ethics/

Four years ago Lloyds Bank launched a residential property division, and since then this has grown to a portfolio of 7,500 homes (valued around £2bn).

So the Q. must be, does an institutional landlord make for a better renters experience than small scale private operators?

As yet there seems to be little public dissatisfaction with Lloyds Living (Home Views has 128 reviews with a score of 4.48/5), so perhaps for Generation Rent institutional renting is a better bet?

#housing #banks
h/t FT

There is a phrase 'lawfare' that is often used in politics when politicians use the laws to silence (or attempt to politically damage) their critics;

Andrew Milne (a London solicitor) is using lawfare to extract money from leaseholders through fear & intimidation....

For those who are suspicious of the laws protections, this will just confirm the law cannot be trusted... for others it will suggest better regulation of solicitors is required!

#housing #politics
https://www.sheffieldtribune.co.uk/a-london-lawyer-bought-hundreds-of-sheffield-freeholds-then-the-very-aggressive-letters-arrived/

“[Economist Cameron] Bagrie’s central diagnosis is that New Zealand’s form of capitalism has become fundamentally unproductive, addicted to an asset class that creates the illusion of wealth without generating real economic value. As he bluntly puts it, 'You do not get wealthy selling more expensive houses to each other'."

#BryceEdwards, 2025

https://theintegrityinstitute.substack.com/p/integrity-briefing-are-business-leaders

#housing #EconomicDevelopment

Neal Hudson (FT) points out that too often commentary on the housing crisis conflates social need & economic demand;

while there's a clear social need for more (affordable) houses, and in different places from where empty houses actually are, the economic demand is constrained partly due to the UK's inequality problem, and partly due to the lack of economic incentive for builders to build cheap(er)/small(er) homes.

He implies (but doesn't say) social housing is the answer!

#housing #politics

Rent in the private rental sector now approaches half (and sometimes exceed half) of many workers pay... there's an old saying in economics: 'if something cannot go on for ever, it won't'.

The cost of living crisis driven by high energy prices & rent suggests the UK economy will continue to stagnate or worse, given the dependence on consumer spending underpinning the economy's activity.

The only Q. is when will the house of cards come tumbling down?

#housing #politics
https://www.theguardian.com/money/2025/oct/27/private-rent-britain-record-swallows-average-wage

One key element of the housing crisis is the hell of houses of multiple occupancy (HMOs) much loved of TV programmes like Houses Under the Hammer, but too often experienced as places of exploitation & threat by their tenants (existing in rentals that are often outside the law).

As Aditya Chakrabortty explores this is a reflection of the buy-to-let logic of the Thatcherite housing 'revolution' linked to austerity & racism/prejudice.

#housing #politics #migrants

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/oct/24/crimewave-sweeping-britain-illegal-houses-multiple-occupation-hmo

Property transactions that fall through are adding additional costs into the housing markets with no real benefit... other countries (including Scotland) have more efficient systems ranging from more upfront disclosure of relevant information, to quicker processes of legal exchange & confirmation

And while a drop in the ocean in one sense the annual loss of between £1-2bn (around £2k per failed sale) is avoidable; the Q. is how expensive is the necessary reform of the system?

#housing
h/t FT

@SeaFury +9001%

#Housing - like any #Infrastructure, should not be legal to hoard, gamble upon or rentseek to begin with!

• #CorporateLandlords are just bad and my short experiences with the biggest one (#VONOVIA) who turned out to be racist af by their policies, just is inexcuseable!

@SeaFury Yeah, cuz gobernments refused to actually.make #Housing a #HumanRight and allocate funding to build new, #AffordableHousing!

You may be shocked to learn that providing people housing is a great way to fight issues surrounding the unhoused. In Denver, the number of encampments of more than 20 people dropped 98% thanks largely* to the new initiative.

"They have a door that they can lock. They have air conditioner in the summer, heaters in the winter. They have a place where they can receive their mail," Chandler said. "Really, an opportunity to start rebuilding their lives."

#Housing #Politics

https://www.denver7.com/news/front-range/denver/all-in-mile-high-initiative-reduced-large-homeless-encampments-by-98-third-party-evaluation-shows

Exploratory toot:
Adjacent to #turtleBower planning locally, people from other areas are also starting to scheme collective/shared housing. Co-living for lil niche groups like spoonies or neurodivergents.
I wonder about a #getFediHoused tag or something as a marketplace for folks looking to start something up, or find roommates, share resources, find local connections, etc.

Chime in if you have ideas!
#coliving #housing #intentionalCommunity #sharedHousing