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Man killed, two others injured in triple shooting outside NYC public housing complex

Three people opened fire outside a Brooklyn public housing complex on Monday, killing one man and wounding two others, police said. According to the NYPD, the shooting occurred around 5:20 p.m. near NYCHA's Lafayette Gardens House on DeKalb Street in Bedford-Stuyvesant. A 32-year-old man who was shot in the head was pronounced dead at the […]

UK Green Housing Demands Could Cost Up To £36 Billion, Report Finds

The UK's Labor government's radical climate change plans could cost landlords, taxpayers and housing associations up to £36 billion to retrofit properties to comply with impending energy efficiency standards. We found a report that said the cost would likely be passed on to the renter. Energy Security and Net Zero Secretary Ed Miliband has claimed […]

China announces new measures to arrest housing slump and boost growth | Chinese economy

China's leaders acknowledged that the central bank's investment stimulus measures this week were likely to be insufficient and vowed to stem the housing market slump and boost growth. China's Politburo pledged the state would make “necessary expenditures” to meet this year's economic growth target of 5 percent, boosting transfers to the poorest and giving local […]

Neither Harris nor Trump can make housing more affordable

Both presidential candidates claim they could solve the problem of rising home prices that plagues millions of Americans. Unfortunately, neither candidate's proposals would increase the supply of affordable housing, and Vice President Kamala Harris' plan would make it even worse. The average sales price of all homes sold in the United States was more than […]

Senate Democrats aim to bolster tenant organizing in new housing bill

The new bill from Senate Democrats would expand organizing and advocacy protections for low-income tenants and is one of a growing number of proposed bills aimed at addressing the national housing shortage ahead of next year's legislative session. The bill, introduced by Sens. John Fetterman (D-PA), Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) and Bernie Sanders (I-VT), would expand […]