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#housing

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Strypey

"There were 20,301 applicants on the Housing Register as at 31 December 2024, a decrease of 20.0 percent from this time last year, 31 December 2023."

#NZMSD, 2024

msd.govt.nz/about-msd-and-our-

How did MSD do this? At a time when the NatACTs have;

a) stopped public housing builds;

interest.co.nz/public-policy/1

b) announced plans to sell off public houses;

newsroom.co.nz/2025/04/01/govt

c) severely limited access to emergency housing;

nzherald.co.nz/nz/government-w

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www.msd.govt.nzHousing Register - Ministry of Social DevelopmentInformation showing the number of applicants on the Housing Register.
#housing#PublicHousing
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Tim Richards

Well said. They just keep pushing up demand without notably increasing supply. Transparently supporting the haves over the have-nots.

"Here we are in 2025, and the major political parties continue to say that the way to make homes cheaper is to increase the amount that people will be able to pay to buy a home.

"It’s not like we lack about 25 years’ worth of evidence that this approach has failed."

Excuse my cynicism, but after 25 years of the same housing policies, could Australian leaders try something else? - Greg Jericho theguardian.com/business/grogo

The Guardian · Excuse my cynicism, but after 25 years of the same housing policies, could Australian leaders try something else?By Greg Jericho
#auspol#housing
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Longreads

"People needed housing first to stabilize, then to begin rebuilding their lives. But the spreadsheet made painfully clear that any promise of affordability was a cruel fiction."

For n+1, Chelsea Kirk writes about disaster capitalism and the power of collective action: nplusonemag.com/online-only/on

n+1 · Diary of a Spreadsheet | Chelsea KirkWhat scares them is something else: the realization spreading across Los Angeles that the private housing market isn’t just failing wildfire victims—it’s failing by design. That the inability to meet this moment isn’t the result of a few bad landlords, it’s a feature of a system built to extract. What landlords fear is that we might imagine something better: a world where housing isn’t a commodity at all, a world without landlords.
#Longreads#Essay#LosAngeles
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Bruce Mirken

This pediatrician was studying familes facing #FoodInsecurity and #housing insecurity. #NIH just cancelled his grant, claiming “Research programs based primarily on artificial and non-scientific categories, including amorphous #equity objectives, are antithetical to the scientific inquiry." The researcher calls bullshit. statnews.com/2025/04/15/nih-gr
#children

STAT · The NIH called my health equity research ‘antithetical to scientific inquiry’The NIH canceled Logan Beyer’s health equity research, saying it was “antithetical to scientific research.” That’s completely wrong, she writes.
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katzenberger 🇺🇦

United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs #UN #OCHA periodical update on #Gaza:

At least 51,000 Palestinians #killed by now, including¹ at least 15,613 #children (of which 825 younger than 1 year; 274 killed immediately after birth), and 8,304 #women.

Since March 2nd Israel has completely halted all entry of all humanitarian supplies, and of any other cargo, including food. Due to this blockade and earlier obstructions, 2 months' worth of food (89,000 metric tons)³ are piling up outside of Gaza.

1.1 million cases of acute respiratory infections; 669,000 cases of acute watery diarrhea; 225,000 cases of skin diseases; 132,000 cases of acute jaundice syndrome²

1.875 million people in need of emergency shelters. About 945,000 of them need winterization support.

About 92% of all #housing units either destroyed (160,000) or damaged (276,000)

Israel has declared 69% of Gaza no-go areas, or issued "evacuation" (displacement) orders for them.

¹no update since Mar 24th, 2025
²no update since Oct 17th, 2024
³no update since Apr 4th, 2025

ochaopt.org/content/humanitari

ochaopt.org/content/reported-i

app.powerbi.com/view?r=eyJrIjo

// @palestine @israel

United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs - Occupied Palestinian TerritoryHumanitarian Situation Update #280 | Gaza Strip | United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs - Occupied Palestinian TerritoryIntensive military operations, displacement orders, the blockade on the entry of all aid and commercial supplies and shrinking humanitarian space are driving what is likely the worst humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip since October 2023.
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John Refior

"The interest rate for the most popular U.S. home loan jumped to 6.81% last week, its highest level in two months, following a turbulent week for financial markets as President Donald Trump pressed on with a deepening trade war...

"Mortgage rates closely track the 10-year Treasury note yield, which had its biggest weekly rise last week since 2001.

"The increase in yields reflected a drop in investor appetite for U.S. government debt, and came as Trump suspended some of his newly imposed tariffs even as he boosted levies on China, the biggest U.S. trading partner."
reuters.com/markets/us/us-30-y

#useconomy#economics#housing
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CBC Montreal

Quebec wants the next federal government to cut immigration. Businesses say not so fast
Quebec Premier François Legault called on the next federal government to reduce the number of temporary immigrants in the province, saying it was putting a strain on the housing market, social services and Quebec identity. But businesses are concerned cut...
#immigration #politics #economy #housing #Quebec #province
cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/qu

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Day 18 cont 🏠🏘️🏘️🏚️🏘️🏘️🏘️🏘️🏘️🏡

“#Labor and the Coalition (#LNP / #Liberal / #Nationals) are engaging in the most reckless election campaign in living memory, according to #economists who warn the major parties’ #policies will *inflate house prices*, damage the #budget and make the #TaxSystem worse.”

Worth reposting this observation.

A reminder this election a job interview and the winner(s) get(s) to do what they want. You pay for it.

#AusPol / #housing / #HousingEmergency <archive.md/LjcH0> / <afr.com/politics/federal/reckl> (paywall)

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Day 18 🏡🏠🏘️🏚️🏘️💰💰💰💰

“Our first home buyer #mortgage #deductibility scheme is going to finally give first home buyers the firepower they need to purchase a #home.

We’re going to, through our housing #infrastructure program, deliver more homes for those first home #buyers.

So if you think the status quo is OK, that’s really what #Labor is offering.

The #Coalition (#LNP / #Liberal) believes that home #ownership is something that every generation of #Australians deserve, and that’s precisely what we’ll deliver, if we’re given the great honour of being elected” — #MichaelSukkar

The Opposition minister for #housing, who in his previous stint in government as Minister but nothing to show for it.

#AusPol / #finance / #banks / #Infrastructure <theguardian.com/australia-news>

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Emeritus Prof Christopher May

(I've posted this chart before but) here;'s a reminder that if you agree that part of the housing crisis is a lack of affordable housing as well as a more general lack of suitable homes being built - thereby contributing to the ever rising price of homes relative to household incomes - one only has to look at the history of housebuilding to see the problem....

We need more social housing (in the right places, of course) if we are to start to end the housing crisis!

Chart: UK housebuilding peaked in the 1960s and has never recovered Completed dwellings ('000) shows housebuilding dominated by local authorities in 1950, with private building rising to around half in 1970 of a total of around 400,000 dwelling per year - its peak, dropping to half that in 1990 almost all built by the private sector, and from then oscillation of around 150,000-200,000 privately built dwelling since, with a small number of housing association builds.
#housing#politics
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Voting is Your POWER

By Voting for Democrats We Make Our Lives Better!

North Carolina Attorney General, Jeff Jackson, has reached a settlement with the landlord company Cortland Management LLC.

“Today’s settlement means one less landlord is using RealPage’s unlawful AI software to charge North Carolinians unfair rents. We’re going to keep fighting this case to make sure all landlords and property managers play by the rules and people can afford rent.

There are still 5 companies he’s still suing, but this is a huge win for a future with fair rent. #housing #rent #economy #Justice #northcarolina #ncpol

ncdoj.gov/attorney-general-jef

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