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Tiny home villages for homeless veterans are popping up around the country. Congress wants to send up to $100 million to fund more.
A bill introduced in the US House of Representatives in May is the first of its kind to tap tiny homes as a solution to veterans' homelessness.
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Researchers 3D-printed a fully recyclable house from natural materials
With the United States facing a historic housing shortage, researchers from the University of Maine believe they may have found a solution to the problem. Using one of the world’s largest 3D printers, the university’s Advanced Structures and Composites Center (ASCC) recently created the first 3D-printed home made entirely of bio-based materials.
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Take a look inside the only large-scale 3D printed housing development in the U.S.
It looks more like a project at NASA than a home construction site. Just outside Austin, Texas, massive machines are squeezing out 100 three- and four-bedroom homes, in the first major housing development to be 3D-printed on site.
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America’s Affordable Housing Problem
America has been struggling through a crippling housing crisis for much of the last decade. Many may intuitively feel this, but the data is even starker than emotions suggest. Nearly half of all renters, amounting to 20 million households, are burdened by housing costs. 10 million renters are severely burdened, spending more than half of their gross income on housing.
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Abolish Zoning—All of It
As Americans, we take comfort in the idea that we have the right to plan our own lives. We are unique in our confidence that it is within our power to move to a better life, as so many of our ancestors did. Where other countries talk about managing stagnation and even decline, we stand undaunted in our assurance that the limits of our wealth and the frontier of innovation lay well into the future.
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How Houston Moved 25,000 People From the Streets Into Homes of Their Own
One steamy morning last July, Ana Rausch commandeered a shady corner of a parking lot on the northwest side of Houston. Downing a jumbo iced coffee, she issued brisk orders to a dozen outreach workers toting iPads. Her attention was fixed on a highway underpass nearby, where a handful of people were living in tents and cardboard lean-tos. As a vice president of Houston’s Coalition for the Homeless, Ms. Rausch was there to move them out.
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How Houston Moved 25,000 People From the Streets Into Homes of Their Own
The nation’s fourth-largest city hasn’t solved homelessness, but its remarkable progress can suggest a way forward.
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San Francisco’s first tiny home village for unsheltered people opens. At $15,000 a pop, city says it’s cost-effective
One week ago, Ryan Bauer was living in a tent on the hard pavement on Gough Street south of Market. Now he’s living on the same pavement with a dramatic upgrade: He’s moved into his own tiny home, with a mattress, desk, chair and — most luxurious of all — a heater that quickly warms his 64-square-foot abode. That’s almost as crucial as a front door that locks from the inside and by a combination lock on the outside.
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Homeless deaths: 'Nap pads' could save hundreds of lives
On a small strip of land tucked away in a corner of York sits a dark grey metal structure about the size of a shipping container. Two security cameras are trained on four numbered doors running across the front. Each secured by a keypad, the doors open into small, modest rooms equipped with a single bed, a toilet and a sink.
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The 22-year-old who took on a housing giant and won
As a new report claims dilapidated housing is "killing some of the most vulnerable people", a 22-year-old student has become an unlikely champion for social housing tenants, shaming Clarion, Europe's biggest housing association, into action. "I can't let people live in squalor," says Kwajo Tweneboa, burning passion in his voice, as he details some of the appalling living conditions he has uncovered in the past four months.
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A major shock is headed for the housing market
At the height of the pandemic, more than 7.2 million homeowners were in the mortgage forbearance program, which allows some borrowers to pause their payments. The economy has since posted one of the fastest recoveries in history. Now, just 1.7 million borrowers are enrolled in the forbearance program.
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U.S. mortgage applications decline with drop in refinancing
Mortgage applications decreased last week in step with a drop in refinancing as mortgage rates remained unchanged. The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) said on Wednesday its seasonally adjusted market composite index tracking mortgage applications fell 2.4% from a week earlier, reflecting a 3.8% decline in applications to refinance existing loans in the week ending Aug. 27.
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House or apartment – which is best for fitness?
If you live in a house, it's much easier to keep fit here are 11 reasons why? File this under "Things the COVID-19 pandemic taught me."
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Finland Is Successfully Fighting Homelessness, Which Is Now Reduced To 0.08% By Giving Homes For Those Who Need It
Finland is the only EU country where homelessness in the decrease and only less than 0.01 percent of the population doesn't have homes. The country's government's aim is to completely end homelessness by 2027.
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3D-printed home in Dutch city expands housing options
Elize Lutz and Harrie Dekkers’ new home is a 94-square meter (1,011-square foot) two-bedroom bungalow that resembles a boulder with windows. The curving lines of its gray concrete walls look and feel natural. But they are actually at the cutting edge of housing construction technology in the Netherlands and around the world: They were 3D printed at a nearby factory.
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No, We’re Not In A Bubble
Real estate. It’s on everyone’s minds. At least it feels that way. Everywhere I look, there’s an article about home prices soaring to record highs, a tweet about someone getting outbid on a home they offered 10% above ask on, or a video trying to make sense of the market right now and if one should get involved. Anecdotes have prevailed in these uncertain times. It’s a bubble! Home prices have increased 25% in our market and it’s going to pop like 2008. We’ve all heard, or uttered, these words in the last several months.
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76 all-cash offers on one home. The housing madness shows no signs of slowing
Ellen Coleman had never received so many offers on a house in her 15 years of selling real estate. She listed a fixer-upper in suburban Washington, DC for $275,000 on a Thursday. By Sunday evening, she had 88 offers.
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How Lower-Income Americans Get Cheated on Property Taxes
Many homeowners are paying a total of billions of dollars extra because of inequities in assessing property values.
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Waiting for baby boomers to die is not effective housing policy
A few years ago, my neighbour died. for many of the preceding decade, we’d done the standard Toronto thing: acknowledged one another politely, usually through an exchange of nods, and courteously asked for or provided help when needed. His death wasn’t unexpected — he was elderly, and his health had obviously been failing for a few time — but it had been sad.
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Homeless man becomes first person to live in 3D-printed house — see inside
“I hope I stay here until my last dying days.” Those are the words of Tim Shea, who has come a long way since his days as a homeless man once struggling with heroin addiction. He is now the first person ever to live in a 3-D-printed house, according to the home’s maker. On the outskirts of Austin, Texas, 70-year-old Shea has settled into his 400-square-foot home constructed by 3-D printing. His new home is situated in the Community First! Village site, which is comprised of houses for the chronically homeless.
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