Is it even possible to not own a car living in the countryside in Ireland? Cycling, walking on country roads 😱 The subpar public transport is chronic, how do people do it. I've been carless by choice since 2011. That leaves us w/ only cities as options for #housing. Students living in cars in order to attend college... How is this acceptable? How can we even discuss #ActiveTravel Where are the PROTESTS?
https://www.irishtimes.com/news/social-affairs/students-sleeping-in-cars-because-of-shortage-of-rental-accommodation-1.3707475

#CarBrain #mastodaoine #cycling #publictransport #FFFGhousingCrisis

This column seems to be suggesting that renting out an empty home if the owner has no use for it in the foreseeable future, and can't sell it the price they want, is just an *option*. Which means that leaving perfectly livable homes empty is also an option.;

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/personal-finance/1483439/the-rise-of-accidental-landlords

Did they forget we're in the middle of a decades-long housing affordability crisis, where it's apparently fine to cut all sorts of corners to *increase supply*? How about making use of existing supply FFS?

#housing

"There’s no way my friends—my peers!—have the money for a down payment on, say, a million-dollar apartment. Except: they do."

Anna Holmes for The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-weekend-essay/on-not-being-a-homeowner

#Longreads #Wealth #Home #Housing #GenerationalWealth #Homeownership

There is now a fund raiser for the "lone" juror who was doxxed by the media following the Lindsay Clancy mistrial.

One of the co-founders of GiveSendGo posted about the campaign indicating that they have enough info to verify that the money goes to the juror.

I don't love the copy on the fund(written by internet randos) but the juror is facing eviction, harassment and clearly was trying to NOT be all in the press.

https://www.givesendgo.com/standwithjuror

#CourtWatch #LoneJuror #LindsayClancy #Housing

Debt Collective - A union of debtors
https://debtcollective.org/
#FreeEducation #FreeHealthcare #Solidarity #Union #UniversalHealthcare #Housing #DebtElimination

Oh ok. This is where we are now? Cool cool cool. ☠️

"The flyers went up in #Manhattan’s #Chelsea neighborhood last month, plastered onto lampposts, bollards, building walls and traffic control boxes.

“Beware: #Talmudists are trained to cheat,” said one of the flyers posted in opposition to a #housing redevelopment project.

“Locals vs. #Rothschilds,” another said.

While those flyers echoed age-old #antisemitic tropes, others deployed #Israel-related or anti-Zionist rhetoric, decrying “dirty #zionist money” and comparing the redevelopment project to the #Nakba.

“Stop Zionist occupation of Manhattan. #NYCHA residents must keep their homes,” one said, referring to the #NewYorkCity Housing Authority, at the entrance to an apartment building.

The flyers were the latest in a series of recent statements attributing housing disputes in #NewYork City to Israel or “Zionists.” The rhetoric appeared to mark a growing new front in anti-Zionist #activism..."

https://jewishchronicle.timesofisrael.com/in-protests-and-politics-zionists-are-being-blamed-for-nyc-housing-woes/

"It occurred to me that perhaps I was misdirecting my anger, that perhaps I was really angry about how buying a home is inaccessible to most of my generation, and that my senior neighbors aren’t to blame for that."

Amy Brown for Oakland Review of Books: https://www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/the-villain-of-el-cerrito-nextdoor

#Longreads #ElCerrito #Housing #Nextdoor #Strangers #Community #Online

July 27, 2026 headline from 730DC (https://www.730dc.com/).
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#NationalGuard #housing #news #WashingtonDC #DC #AffordableHousing #OccupiedTerritories #resist #protest

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SCREENSHOT: SEVEN:THIRTY - Wake to Washington. [reply to this to tell us how many people you know who've had ~food poisoning~ recently (for this editor: 5)] WHAT TO KNOW They don't even go here... Thousands of National Guard troops will move from hotels into longer-term housing. The price tag? $292M—reportedly cheaper than the alternative, but we gotta ask: Who would be living in these apartments otherwise?! To put this in perspective, last year DC spent around $100M to build and preserve affordable housing for DC residents. * While Minnesota has recalled their contingent, troops from 20+ states still remain on our streets. Here’s how to tell who’s who—and how to push back on the waste of tax dollars.

@Geri Why don't those pesky tenants just get fired for dodging tax on their ~£1M second home and net themselves a nice £17k payout before getting rehired less than a year later when their boss changes the colour of his shirt?

#UKPol #Housing

The Housing Bill, which is now law, is a "major, bipartisan piece of legislation aimed at boosting housing construction":
https://calmatters.org/housing/2026/07/road-housing-california-federal/
#politics #housing #reform

Q. would a state-owned housing developer be the answer to the UK's crisis in housing & specifically the need to build more social housing?

Interestingly, the funding of such a project *should* be covered by Rachel Reeves' new fiscal rules which allow for special treatment of public debt taken on for social investment...

As always the devil would be in the detili, but its by no means a stupid idea. Might Andy Burnham leap on this?

#housing #politics

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/jun/27/uk-minister-plans-for-state-owned-housing-developer-exclusive

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