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Why are so many British homes empty?
Hundreds of thousands of homes across the UK are unoccupied, despite widespread concern about a housing shortage. Why? By Justin Parkinson.
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Walls Not Included
How Four Roommates Got Duped Into Camping In A $6K A Month Williamsburg Death-Trap. By Nathan Tempey.
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Meanwhile In Canada, A Real Estate Bargain Emerges. ($2.4 million CAD)
We’ve long known that Canada, like Sweden and Denmark, is sitting on a giant housing bubble. Indeed we took a close look at the issue back in March of last year and have revisited in on several occasions since.
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We Thought We’d Be Living in Space (or Under Giant Domes) By Now
An inflatable space habitat test highlights the quirky visions we've had for the future of housing, from cities under glass to EPCOT. By Erin Blakemore.
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Concretopia: searching for the secret meaning of the suburbs in eastern Europe
Russian photographer Egor Rogalev explains his enduring fascination with post-Soviet edgelands.
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[New Orleans] Lead poisoning lawyers make $2 million; victims average $17,000
Three lawyers appointed by the court to help administer the settlement fund were paid, in total, almost $2 million, with one of them making almost half a million dollars for four months of work. By Richard A. Webster.
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How Habitat for Humanity Went to Brooklyn and Poor Families Lost Their Homes
The charity paid millions in federal stimulus funds to developers shortly after longtime tenants were pushed out. “We are spending federal money to throw low-income New Yorkers out of buildings,” wrote a Habitat whistleblower. By Marcelo Rochabrun.
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Inside Aravena’s open source plans for low-cost yet upgradable housing
After Alejandro Aravena accepted the Pritzker Prize yesterday, his firm Elemental released four open source plans for low income housing… By Julia Ingalls.
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Living Happily Ever After
The great unanswered question about the suburbanization of mid-twentieth-century America is this: Could it have been done better? By Martin Filler.
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Renting hell in New York City: how my hoarder landlady ruined my life
Steven W Thrasher paid $1,000 a month for a Brooklyn renter’s dream – a sprawling apartment on a beautiful tree-lined block – that was too good to be true.
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The Highest Bidder
How foreign investors are squeezing out Vancouver’s middle class. By Kerry Gold. (Mar. 30)
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City of Toronto orders family to remove elaborate boat-treehouse that cost $30K
John Alpeza built a boat to get away from all the distractions that come with living in Toronto. But the city has ordered him to dismantle the boat, saying it violates zoning bylaws. At the heart of the dispute is where he decided to build it: in a tree in his backyard. The boat-treehouse sits atop a dead tree in Alpeza's Bloor West Village backyard, stretching beyond the tree and overlooking his fence. Alpeza admits that he did not have a building...
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Watch: Demolition of crumbling Sandy house
Watch the demolition of a crumbling Midland Beach bungalow damaged in Hurricane Sandy.
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How Housing’s New Players Spiraled Into Banks’ Old Mistakes
Some private equity firms that came in as the cleanup crew for the housing crisis are now repeating errors that banks committed.
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The house that love built, before it was gone
For Monica Vitti, Eileen Gray and Frank Lloyd Wright, their homes were the culmination of passionate affairs. And the places they ended.. By Leanne Shapton and Niklas Maak. (July 4, 2016)
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The Latest High-End Real Estate Amenity? The Luxury Safe Room
Disaster preparedness is a big deal to the one percent. By Adrienne Gaffney.
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The tragic story of Sheffield’s Park Hill bridge
One spring day in 2001 a tall man walked into Sheffield’s Park Hill flats and along a street in the sky. He strode past the brutalist flanks, out on to the footbridge. He thought: this’ll do. Jason didn’t look down; he gets vertigo and he was 13 storeys up. He leaned over in his yellow Puffa jacket and sprayed her name. “Clare” came out haphazardly and “Middleton” hit the ledge. He planned to take her to the Roxy on the facing hill, to show her. So now he began again, bigger, clearer: “I LOVE YOU WILL U MARRY ME”.
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How the super-rich are making their homes ‘invisible’
Privacy is perhaps the greatest luxury anyone can buy, hence the trend for properties hidden from prying eyes and online searches. By Kate Allen.
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Making House: Notes on Domesticity
A home is something both looked at and lived in, but that duality can be difficult to reconcile. By Rachel Cusk.
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Seattle becomes No. 1 U.S. market for Chinese homebuyers
There’s been a large increase this year in Chinese buyers looking for property in the Seattle area, and a new tax on foreign buyers in Vancouver, B.C., is expected to amplify the trend.
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