Affordable housing threatened as Trump halts $1 billion slated for extending life of aging buildings
Hundreds of thousands of low-rent apartments, many of them aging and in need of urgent repair, are at risk of being yanked out from under poor Americans.
Nice good old fashioned #housing bill to outlaw #SingleFamilyZoning from #TinaKotek. This could create some nice #AffordableHousing in 5-10 years in the free state of #oregon after the country collapses into a new civil war.
Something surprising is happening in S.F. that’s actually … um, good. A 146-unit #affordablehousing project is going up … fast. It aims to be completed 19 months after breaking ground, which is three to six months faster than normal. What is speeding things up? A team approach and some process improvements. Also perhaps just having the goal of more #housing in less time. https://www.sfchronicle.com/realestate/article/mission-bernal-affordable-housing-20064388.php
Can You Survive on Minimum Wage in Canada?
https://wp.me/p84YjG-4I8
#MinimumWage #CanadaEconomy #CostOfLiving #LowIncome #WageGap #AffordableHousing #CPP #OAS #LivingWage #zsoltzsemba
https://zsoltzsemba.com/2025/02/26/surviving-on-minimum-wage-canada/
“If policymakers want to make housing more affordable and available, more federal support is needed for housing assistance and development, not less. ... To better address the ongoing housing affordability crisis, the federal government could invest in these housing needs, rather than undermine them.”
#Politics #USPolitics #Housing #AffordableHousing #HUD #USDeptOfHousingUrbanDev #UrbanDevelopment #UrbanPlanning #CityPlanning #CommunityDevelopment
https://www.urban.org/data-tools/federal-housing-funding-tracker
Rebecca Bligh, #Vancouver city councillor, kicked out of ABC Party:
"I would've liked to have seen more engaged discussion on these critical policies. I've brought in a plan to do just that about 18 month ago that staff will be reporting on next week at our council meeting. It focuses on many dimensions of DTES... economic development, need for more jobs, more job space at every level, more housing of every type including market rental"
How the Yes on Proposition 1A campaign won a massive victory to fund social housing in Seattle with progressive revenue
In this deep dive, NPI's founder and executive director discusses the keys to the victory of the special election campaign run by House Our Neighbors to create an excess compensation tax to fund new publicly-owned housing.
#AffordableHousing #ElectionPostmortems #ResearchPollingRetrospectives #WA-Cities
The Housing Loophole That Lets Wealthy Investors Raise Rents on Poor Tenants
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As the U.S. struggles with a housing shortage, investors continue to exploit a gap in an affordable housing law to raise rents on 115,000 apartments. Congress has repeatedly failed to act.
#Fremont #sfba #California is the latest city to criminalize being #unhoused. Worse, it potentially criminalizes *helping* the unhoused.
#affordableHousing #homelessness
https://sfstandard.com/2025/02/12/help-the-homeless-go-to-jail-fremont-passes-new-law/
Reason #45 why ##FordMustGo
Ford is remarkably consistent - he's failed at every opportunity to solve the #AffordableHousing crisis. Part of the federal housing funds depended on building additional public housing units. Ford was complaining that the feds didn't pay up despite the fact that Ontario missed the targets significantly. Once again, federal funds went directly to municipalities that followed the playbook, upsetting Ford.
#OntarioElection2025 #ONpoli
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-ottawa-says-ontario-failed-to-meet-affordable-housing-goals-wont-send/
Reason #43 why #FordMustGo
In January of 2024, the Ford government promised to provide government incentives to developers that would encourage them to start building Affordable Homes. When asked the definition of "affordable," the government convened an internal committee to figure out what they meant. In June, they rolled out those incentives and developers said "WTF" and continued to not build homes.
#OntarioElection2025 #ONpoli #AffordableHousing
https://globalnews.ca/news/10563757/ontario-affordable-housing-definitions/
Reason #42 why ##FordMustGo
After removing rent controls, Ford's government in 2019 removed experienced adjudicators from the Landlord Tenant Board & moved responsibilities to Tribunals Ontario, a "mega-cluster of tribunals." Delays skyrocketed and both landlords & tenants took advantage of the long wait for complaints to be heard. In some cases requests for higher than allowed rent increases were prioritized.
#OntarioElection2025 #ONpoli #AffordableHousing
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/ontario-ombudsman-report-landlord-tenant-board-1.6830181
Reason #41 why #FordMustGo
According to a recent Angus Reid survey, #AffordableHousing is the 3rd most important election issue. After being elected in 2018, Ford removed rent controls on all new rental buildings. It was hoped this would jump start new development, which happened but stalled due to COVID, inflation, and high interest rates. When market conditions changed, there were no policy adjustments. Just 30% higher rents.
#OntarioElection2025 #ONpoli
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/rent-control-toronto-ford-series-1.6974129
Seattle voters embrace excess compensation tax to build social housing, reject Chamber-conceived alternative
A two-part special election housing ballot measure in the Emerald City is passing, with 57.55% of voters decisively backing a proposal to require the biggest businesses in town to invest in the recently formed Seattle Social Housing Developer.
#AffordableHousing #WA-Cities
As house prices rise, construction of single-family rental homes soars in #Charlotte metro
https://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/business/article300080434.html
Ontario Greens announced Plan to End Legislated Poverty:
- Immediately double Ontario Disability Support Program (ODSP) and Ontario Works (OW) rates. Tie all future increases to inflation;
- Get rid of aggressive and unfair clawbacks, including from the Canada Disability Benefit; and
- Work with nonprofits to build 310,000 new affordable non profit and co-op homes, including 60,000 supportive homes with wraparound supports
https://gpo.ca/2025/02/06/ontario-greens-will-end-legislated-poverty/
Only 12% of ballots have been sent in so far on the Social Housing election.
Ballots are due by the 11th, lets send a big F-you to the landlord lobby and build social housing!
Get those ballots turned in folks! We got this 
.. erm don't normally side with organised religion however, #Brisbane, given you are busy dispossessing homeless people and dumping their belongings in the middle a #HousingCrisis and #ClimateCrisis ( for no other reason that you can.. ) just what are these typical " 5 bedroom 1 occupant" types bitching about ??
I guess it's a full on #NotInMyBackYard response by those who are experiencing suden onset intellectual decline . .
Reason #2 that #FordMustGo
Ford has missed every target set for housing while he has been premier. Their target of 1.5M homes by 2031 was considered low as it would not keep pace with population growth, and most industry experts expect them to miss by 50% or more. In 2023, they got innovative and started counting long-term care beds. In 2024, they considered switching to tallying permits versus actual building starts.
#AtlantaGeorgia rethinks clearing #HomelessCamps after a man is crushed inside his tent
By JEFF MARTIN
Updated 3:39 PM EST, January 31, 2025
ATLANTA (AP) — "Atlanta leaders are reconsidering how they dismantle homeless camps after a man was crushed inside a tent as a bulldozer destroyed makeshift homes in preparation for Martin Luther King Jr. holiday events.
"Cornelius Taylor was living in the camp a few blocks from Ebenezer Baptist Church, the King family’s congregation, where dignitaries gather for each year’s commemorative service. A march was held from downtown to the church that same weekend.
"Now, Taylor’s family is planning a Monday funeral at the same historic church, and then a horse-drawn carriage will carry his coffin to City Hall so that people there 'can see who they killed,' said his sister, Darlene Chaney.
"The U.S. Supreme Court [#SCOTUS] ruled last year that cities across the country can enforce bans on homeless camping. But clearing the camps — as #NewOrleans did ahead of Taylor Swift’s concerts there — remains controversial."
Read more:
https://apnews.com/article/homeless-atlanta-ebenezer-mlk-ff421e31ebc13dc53919190074931c42
#USPol #SoaringRents #UnaffordableHousing #AffordableHousing #HousingForAll #EvictTheRich #TinyHouses #Unhoused #EmptyOfficeBuildings #EmptyMalls #NoExcuse!
