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Officials push to turn office buildings into housing amid home shortage, remote-work boom

The story at a glance The United States is facing a long-standing shortage of affordable housing and record office vacancy rates. Elected officials are pushing to speed up the conversion of commercial buildings to housing to address both issues. Regulatory and architectural challenges can make such a transformation complex and costly. Officials across the U.S., […]

CA colleges are once again seeing campus buildings being taken over by protesters

Carol Crist, President, University of California, Berkeley sent a letter Addressing the university’s camp, he paid tribute to the group for maintaining a “professional, organized and productive approach during extremely difficult times”. After the prime minister’s letter was published, campus occupiers occupied the school building with the aim of “expanding into Gaza.” Demonstrators occupied the […]

NYC Buildings Dept. cuts back staffing including inspectors despite recent collapses

The city’s Department of Buildings is cutting its staff by a quarter starting in 2022, with many of those positions being filled by inspectors who are supposed to identify problems in structures before they potentially collapse. Ta. The troubling revelation surfaced Tuesday during a meeting of the City Council’s Housing and Buildings Committee. Commission Chair […]

Biden’s Bomb ‘Pause’ Will Cause Israeli Soldiers to Die in Booby-trapped Buildings

President Joe Biden’s decision to withhold bombs from Israel means more Israeli soldiers will die in booby-trapped buildings that would otherwise be destroyed from the air, according to Israeli military officials. It is said that it should be done. As Breitbart News reported, the Biden administration confirmed this week that it had withheld the 2,500 […]