#affordable-housing — Public Fediverse posts

Well, its 2 weeks until moving day! Newly retired, I am downsizing to a 1 bedroom, barrier free, accessible unit in a non profit housing coop. The units were designed for aging in place.

#coophousing
#seniors
#affordablehousing

RT by @WorkersEESC: 🗣️@ThomasKattnig calls for bold measures on Europe’s #HousingCrisis at the Informal Ministerial Meeting for Housing:
🏠right to #AffordableHousing
🏠social & limited profit housing
🏠funding
🏠focus on youth, families & sustainability
👉Opinion: http://link.europa.eu/3hv8N3
@CY2026EU
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https://nitter.net/EESC_TEN/status/2054105186784694640#m

Home values in Oakland CA have dropped by 28% since 2019. Why? Because Oakland suffered some of S.F.’s problems (empty downtown, WFH, etc.) without the AI boom that helped S.F. recover. But here’s the thing: Houses are still crazy expensive in Oakland … and way beyond what most families can afford. https://www.sfchronicle.com/realestate/article/oakland-home-prices-22244894.php #affordablehousing

This story of unqualified, inexperienced white #contractors & a corrupt gop representative bamboozled a Black rural town in Illinois underscores the difficulty in building #AffordableHousing.

There were so many 🚩.
via #Propublica

https://www.propublica.org/article/3d-printed-affordable-housing-cairo-illinois-prestige

#3Dprinting #housing #Cairo

Unsheltered in the wide open spaces

Unhoused in Australia: "‘A sobering indictment’: 14 homeless people die a year in public parks or countryside in Australia, analysis finds:"

"Between 2010 and 2020, 54 rough sleepers died in public parks, the analysis shows. Eighty-five homeless Australians died in countryside areas – including in bushland, desert, beaches and riverbanks – in the same period...It is a sobering indictment of societal abandonment and systemic failure." >>
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/may/09/homeless-people-deaths-per-year-australia-ntwnfb

The human right to adequate housing. Housing is a right, not a commodity
https://www.ohchr.org/en/special-procedures/sr-housing/human-right-adequate-housing
#housing #precariousness #abandonment #HomelessnessCrisis #AffordableHousing #PublicHousing #privatisation #DecadesOfNeglect #HumanRights #homelessness #Unhoused #FamilyViolence #SettlerSociety #commodity #rentierism

What, you mean the actual cost of building is a barrier to building housing affordable to ordinary mortals?

How could the "upzoning will get us the housing we need" evangelicals be wrong? Isn't just supply and demand? That's what they telling me. /s

The complete failure of Lurie's tax cuts for developers on full display at hearing - 48 hills
https://48hills.org/2026/05/the-complete-failure-of-luries-tax-cuts-for-developers-on-full-display-at-hearing/

#AffordableHousing #Zoning #ImpactFees

Garden State Initiative forum tackles taxes, Medicaid, housing and energy policy https://www.allforgardening.com/1755213/garden-state-initiative-forum-tackles-taxes-medicaid-housing-and-energy-policy/ #AffordableHousing #AudreyLane #ChrissyButeas #EnergyPolicy #garden #GardenState Initiative #JulieRoginsky #medicaid #ReginaEgea #RichardMroz #taxes #video

The one reason Americans can’t build quaint, walk-up apartments like they have in Europe

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.upworthy.com/why-americans-cant-have-quaint-walkup-apartment-ex1/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=why-americans-cant-have-quaint-walkup-apartment-ex1

"As part of the BUILD Act announcement, Lurie also said city departments had been convened to determine “a more effective source of funding” for affordable housing within three months."

Nothing says good planning and a complete strategy than cutting revenues while waiting for people to dream up a new source of funds.

Plan to halve SF transfer taxes on big deals awaits details | Politics | sfexaminer.com
https://www.sfexaminer.com/news/politics/plan-to-halve-sf-transfer-taxes-on-big-deals-awaits-details/article_ebd1015c-0e4d-4bfa-9d54-f11f1b8042a3.html

#SanFrancisco #MayorLurie #AffordableHousing

Gay candidate beats Mamdani’s choice in race to represent Stonewall district in NYC Council

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.advocate.com/politics/election/stonewall-district-special-election-result

@Tango793 @RAHU

(2018) “Boxing” Day Test - David Pope

(2026) “Affordable” in Trumpland
https://portside.org/2026-04-25/no-place-home

#affordablehousing #art #Canberra #cartoons #illustration #DavidPope