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The war in Ukraine has caused a housing crisis. Here’s how to combat it
With seven million Ukrainians internally displaced, the search for empty buildings to repurpose isn’t enough The apartment is…
What Are The Most Expensive Australian Cities To Buy A House In? Find Out Here
Whether you’re thinking of moving to Australia or locating within the country itself, you’ve probably looked at house…
Save The Environment And Your Wallet With These Alternative Housing Ideas
Private homes make up a fourth of greenhouse (GHG) gas emissions in the United States. And with more…
Is A Mortgage Broker Really Necessary When Buying Your First Home?
Are you lining up your pockets for a first home? Homeownership packs a lot of benefits. You get…
6 Ways To Improve Your Home’s Resale Value
Ask any investment expert and they will tell you that the best investment you can make is to…
The US Cities Where Apartment Rents Are Rising The Fastest
Settling in a new city cannot be complete without a new apartment. A lot of us have specific…
Reasons Why People In New York Want To Shift To New Jersey
You might be thinking why people in New York are leaving their city. Almost every person in the…
Millennial Millionaires Are Redefining What A Good Location Means In Real Estate
Housing in America is expensive, and the price tags are still on the rise. This has forced major…
Real Estate Trends In Texas For 2020
The real estate market in the USA is massive, and only getting larger. The population is growing and…
Hong Kong Is One Of The Most Unequal Cities In The World. So Why Aren’t The Protesters Angry At The Rich And Powerful?
There have been many explanations for the turmoil in Hong Kong, with protests still ongoing. However, the powerful…
5 US Cities With The Most Homeless People
While the United States enjoy one of the strongest economies in the world, the benefits of the country’s…
The Cities With The Highest Cost Of Rent 2019
Need to move out and rent a place? These cities have some of the most expensive rates you’ll…
Poor Housing Leaves Its Mark On Our Mental Health For Years To Come
Australia carries an enormous and increasing mental health burden. At the same time, housing disadvantage is on the…
Addis Ababa’s Street Hustlers Helped Build The City – Now They’re Being Pushed Out
The population of Africa is booming, but as long as productivity and employment remain unsteady, “global experts” and…
Getting Into The Urban Property Development Market: How Developers Can Appeal To Metro Masses And Break The Profit Barrier
The urban property regeneration continues, with both businesses and renters flocking to the cities in search of the…
Can We Establish Forms Of Home Ownership That Promote Empathy And Solidarity?
There are few forms of consumption that match the depth of feeling brought to homeownership. Political and cultural…
6 Factors To Consider Before Starting A Home Improvement Business
According to the Global Entrepreneurship and Development Index, the United States holds the number one spot for being…
How Single Women Are Driving Gentrification In Hong Kong And Elsewhere
Gentrification is reshaping urban areas all around the world, displacing large segments of the population and making cities…
Small Housing Solutions For Large City Populations
The UN predicts that 68% of the world population will reside in urban areas by 2050, but with cities already…
3 Trends In Urban Property Development In 2019
Urban property development trends for 2019 are shifting dramatically. From millennials moving to the suburbs to the renewed…
It’s Official – Hong Kong Is The Most Expensive City In The World To Live In
The most expensive cities to live in around the world in 2019 have been revealed in the 15th Annual…
The Cost Of Housing Is Tearing Our Society Apart
For the better part of a century, home ownership has been the foundation of the average American’s growth…
Why More Young Adults Live With Their Parents
Economic tumult in the early 2000s persuaded many young people to keep living with their parents, but their…
How Do We Improve Cities Without Causing Displacement?
As demand for urban living continues to increase, how do we make our cities better without triggering displacement…
Why Affordable Housing Needs To Be A Right, Not A Privilege
It’s time to ensure that no American has to worry about where they and their families will sleep…
Don’t Demonise Beggars. It Won’t Solve The Problem Of Homelessness
People do not choose to end up on the streets. Only by treating them as human beings can…
What Makes Housing Great? Here’s New York City’s Guide
Anyone can use the city’s new guide to affordable housing–and eventually, it could go global. Who gets to…
Why Racial Segregation Is A Design Feature, Not A Bug, Of US Cities
The National Housing Act of 1934, part of Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s ‘New Deal’ following the Great Depression, was…
A Playful Solution To The Housing Crisis
Frustrated by her lack of self-determination in the housing market, Sarah Murray created a computer game that allows…
The Global Housing Crisis
Scarce, unaffordable housing is not a local problem in a few places, but is baked into the 21st-century…
We Need Bigger Cities, But We Also Need Unique Cities
“If you don’t want processed food, why do you want processed cities?” asks architect Vishaan Chakrabarti. Think of…
What Will New Zealand’s New Government Bring For Towns And Cities?
Almost 90% of New Zealand’s population is urbanised. Getting policy right for towns and cities will be crucial…
The World Needs To Build More Than Two Billion New Homes Over The Next 80 Years
By the end of this century, the world’s population will have increased by half – that’s another 3.6…
Algorithmic Zoning Could Be The Answer To Cheaper Housing & More Equitable Cities
Zoning codes are a century old, and the lifeblood of all major U.S. cities (except arguably Houston), determining…
When Cheap Housing Becomes A Cause For Crisis In The US
This is a problem that transcends the rural-urban divide. The affordable housing crisis has spared no county—rural or…
Nail Houses, A Pain In China’s Rapid Urbanisation Run
A single house balancing precariously in the middle of a construction site may seem like a doomed and…
Are You Aware Of The Low-Cost Solution to Traffic?
Instead of building expensive roads, we should be building housing that limits how far people have to drive…
Why Amsterdam Is Kicking Out The Bad Gassy Habit
The city plans to wean its homes off domestic natural gas by 2050, starting now. By 2050, Amsterdam…
35 Ways To Experience America’s 35 Obnoxiously Rich City Suburbs
We’re gonna take a guess: if you’re checking to see if your town is on this list, you…
Modern Cities Began Like Blackhouses In Settlements Around Scotland
Hundreds of years ago the highlands of Scotland and Ireland were dotted with a type of dwelling called…
A Singaporean View Of The Residensity Of This Unique City
Singapore is an island like no other. A dense urban jungle, the crowded buildings of this modern city…
A Winning Skyscraper Design, Done Upside Down
Imagine standing on the edge of New York’s Central Park and looking down into a 1.3-sq mile (3.4-sq…
Housing For South Texas, Delivered In Shipping Containers
San Antonio, Texas-based firms Development Strategies, Inc and Alamo Architects recently completed the first phase of a shipping…
Give London’s Citizen The Freedom To Live Well
A city will struggle if it can no longer house the people who teach, clean, nurse, cook, police,…
Why The Downward Spiral Of Inequality Is Becoming Harder To Fix
Why does economic inequality—as opposed to just poverty—matter? There are a lot of reasons, but a big one…
Beautiful Cities With Gardens Or Lovely Gardens With Cities
The government is investing more than £300m in building what George Osborne has described as the first “proper”…
Getting Lost In Singapore’s Street Names? Discover Here.
The Street and Building Names Board was only established in 2003. In the past, street-naming fell to the Municipal…
BIG’s Cool, Green, Mountainous Apartments Set In National Park
Designing a building to be sympathetic to its surroundings can be tricky, especially when the building is to…
Experiencing The Best Begins With Belonging
Our experiences are heightened when we travel. Removed from our day-to-day rituals and familiar terrain, even the most…
The Uneven Terrain Of City Booms
Across the globe there is an urban resurgence. In fact, it is of such major and global significance…