housing

I really don't get anti-gentrification activism. Everyone deserves to live somewhere. And people banding together to keep a hated "other" out just always strikes me as wrong. I get that people like affordable housing but to me the solution would seem to be build more housing. Not keep those...

HEADLINE: Construction of 30,000 homes planned in new W. Bank suburbs By The Associated Press http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/974121.html The Palestinian Investment Fund says it plans to build 30,000 affordable apartments in the West Bank (and Gaza) to ease a growing housing crunch. How...

I have a concept I hope somebody can find a developer for; Build a housing development which is all steam-heated by one of those domestic heating reactors that Toshiba is making. And show what can be done with that kind of energy; Self clearing streets and sidewalks for example. And...

In todays Salinas Californian... It seems that hundreds of home sellers are buying these little statues for $8 and burying them. The kits are sold on this site www.stjosephstatue.com and appeal to Catholics or I suppose anyone desperate to sell their home and are gullible enough to think this...

So, at an average (country wide) house cost of something like $200,000 per house (I'm entirely guessing), how many houses could be paid off in full for the cost of the Iraqui war?

Why do deadbeats get better housing than the average American? I own several rental properties and we recently had a potential tenant who told us she was eligible for $1053 in Section 8 rent assistance. Because this woman is a single mother of a two and three year old, she "needs" three...

President Bush's HUD budget proposal for fiscal year 2005 would eliminate 250,000 Section 8 vouchers immediately and eliminate 600,000 vouchers by 2009. The Bush Administration's budget recommendation is $1.6 billion below the necessary level to maintain current assistance for low-income...