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Economissive
Economissive
If you think:1. People should be allowed to build their own houses if they like... 2. People who would rather pay someone else to build a house to save time
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Paul McMorrow
paul_mcmorrow
Quick thread on how wild it is to even entertain the thought of allowing a handful of municipalities to help hold up the Housing Choice bill, outlined by @jonchesto herehttps://www.bostonglobe.com/business/2019/11/21/baker-housing-bill-stalls-again-s
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Anthony Cotter
agcotter
In March, Vancouver City Council asked: Are we planning to build too many homes? Staff’s answer: we’re building way too many new single-family homes, and not nearly enough of all
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Has Jeff Bezos Decided To End World Hunger?
HasBezosDecided
The cleverest thing Margaret Thatcher ever did was the Right To Buy policy. R2B gave the tenants of council housing (housing owned by the local council wherein affordable rents were
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Peter Apps
PeteApps
Think something missing from the COVID-19 debate is the extent to which the housing market has forced people to live in shared rented housing. Consider this data from Camden: The
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Anti-racist Alex 🌯
in_a_backyard
Older white homeowners need to understand that their home ownership was given to them on the basis of race. Subsidies for the suburbs was freely given to them while Black
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🍁The Fall of Fascism ☠️
strqmul_iskwist
To all the natives who: -are homeless, living in the streets and shelters -are or were in foster care systems -living in Tribal Housing, HUD, section 8 or low income
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Richard Cho, PhD (조세형)
Richard_S_Cho
Today is a good day to read up on how rental assistance vouchers are the best tool to solve #homelessness. (1/4) Here’s one from @CenterOnBudget @AnnaKBailey summarizing the research: https://www.cbpp.org/blog/housing-vouchers-work-vouche
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Nathaniel Barker
NatBarkerIH
Look at this extraordinary graph. It shows levels of housing overcrowding plotted against COVID-19 mortality rates. Here's another graph, showing the average coronavirus mortality rates among areas with different levels
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David Madden
davidjmadden
Housing inequality is fuelling the pandemichttps://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/12/virus-hitting-hardest-modern-equivalent-victorian-slums?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other There are periodic moments in housing history when the ruling class discovers that
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Anti-racist Alex 🌯
in_a_backyard
Trump speaking on the virtues of single family zoning has helped me in educating others on why SFZ is a racist practice that we need to abolish. I'm seeing a
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Nithya Raman
nithyavraman
Our campaign has been texting and calling residents, getting the word out about the election and asking what issues are important to them.Among the responses we’re getting, one thing has
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Robert Jenrick
RobertJenrick
THREAD Today I announced the highest single funding commitment to affordable housing in a decade.Our new Affordable Homes Programme will provide upto 180,000 new homes across the country. (1/5) Our
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beguiling bug
runolgarun
there is no issue that so succinctly reveals the difference between being a progressive liberal vs. a leftist than housing. people always tell us "we're all on the same side"
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Liam Dillon
dillonliam
THREAD: There’s not enough affordable housing in California. And a huge reason that we can’t fix the problem is that it’s more expensive to build low-income housing here than anywhere
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Sooz Kempner
SoozUK
I want to do a little thread about social housing because the idea of a council house as "somewhere poor people get given for free coz they can't afford to
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