#Solving the US housing shortage

#Solving the US housing shortage

“#Solving the US housing shortage” A new generation of startups wants to disrupt the way houses are built by automating production with industrial 3D printers. 3D printing, also known as additive manufacturing, uses machines to deposit thin layers of plastic, metal, concrete and other materials atop one another, eventually producing three-dimensional objects from the bottom…

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#Sensible court rulings enable NYC recovery

#Sensible court rulings enable NYC recovery

“#Sensible court rulings enable NYC recovery” Common sense has broken out as loony anti-development “logic” lost in a key pair of court cases. Brooklyn Supreme Court Justice Katherine Levine ruled that the city can move ahead with rezoning of an area near the Gowanus Canal after the Department of City Planning agreed to hold public…

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#Millennials can now afford homeownership, causing a shortage

#Millennials can now afford homeownership, causing a shortage

“#Millennials can now afford homeownership, causing a shortage” So close, and yet so far.  As various factors finally make homeownership attainable for frequently maligned millennials, a new hurdle has appeared: Not enough houses to go around.  According to recent findings by investment bank Jefferies, younger millennials between ages 25 and 29 are increasingly buying their…

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#Albany lawmakers pass bills aimed at cleaning up housing bias

#Albany lawmakers pass bills aimed at cleaning up housing bias

“#Albany lawmakers pass bills aimed at cleaning up housing bias” ALBANY — State Senate Democrats passed a package of bills Monday designed to clean up discriminatory and predatory practices in the housing market.  The 11 bills includes a measure that would require the state attorney general’s office to conduct a yearly investigation into how minorities…

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#Housing may again be behind the 2008-ball

#Housing may again be behind the 2008-ball

“#Housing may again be behind the 2008-ball” We seem to be living in an era of the unexpected disaster: A virus that suddenly shuts down the US economy and ends life as we know it. A banking system that is at one minute solvent, and the next on the brink of collapse.  Of course, such…

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#Slamming landlords leaves NYC’s housing on brink of disaster

#Slamming landlords leaves NYC’s housing on brink of disaster

“#Slamming landlords leaves NYC’s housing on brink of disaster” New York’s politicians have rushed to safeguard tenants during the pandemic and lockdowns, with multiple protections against eviction and guarantees that you don’t have to pay rent — without facing the fact that cutting off landlords’ income is courting other kinds of disaster. State lawmakers just…

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