Tagged With Housing Crisis

Pop-up shelters that can be assembled in 20 minutes without tools could help address California's mounting homelessness crisis

Aria Bendix

A Silicon Valley startup is offering $10,000 to workers who volunteer to leave the Bay Area

Aria Bendix

A Navy weapons station full of WWII-era ammunition bunkers could be transformed into 13,000 new homes in the Bay Area

Aria Bendix

Apple is donating $2.5 billion towards the California housing crisis

Isobel Asher Hamilton

An Austin startup can 3D-print tiny homes in 24 hours for a fraction of the cost of traditional homebuilding — here's how Icon could revolutionise affordable housing

Katie Canales

The US-China trade war is affecting $10 billion worth of goods used in the homebuilding industry — and the US just saw the biggest decline in supply of new homes in 6 years

Libertina Brandt

San Francisco renters are dishing out $1,200 a month for bunk beds in co-living buildings to avoid the city's high rents — here's what they get for their money

Libertina Brandt

A multimillionaire's wife is suing after the city of Vancouver charged her $249,000 for not living in her $27 million mansion

Michelle Mark

Berlin is freezing rents for the next 5 years, and it's a major step in the city's efforts to prevent an increasingly serious housing crisis

Libertina Brandt

Hong Kong locals desperate for housing are considering putting in offers on haunted houses, and it's a sign of how unaffordable property in the city is

Libertina Brandt

Hong Kong is about to spend $80 billion on an artificial island to solve its housing crisis — but critics say it may come at the expense of the environment

Rosie Perper

A minimum-wage worker needs 1.5 jobs just to afford half the rent for a 2-bedroom apartment in most of the US

Hillary Hoffower, Andy Kiersz

Microsoft will spend $500 million on building affordable housing in Seattle

Isobel Asher Hamilton

A startup turning old hotels and offices into housing for San Francisco's forgotten middle-class is expanding to LA

Melia Robinson

San Francisco's footpaths are covered with human faeces, so the city is launching a 'Poop Patrol' to deal with the city's No. 2 problem

Melia Robinson

San Francisco's housing market is so out of control, 60% of tech workers say they can't afford homes

Melia Robinson

America's housing market is raising a 'large red flag' for the US economy

Akin Oyedele

San Francisco's tech boom is so expansive that the city's median home price rose by $205,000 in the first half of 2018, one of the biggest swells in its history

Katie Canales

American cities are so expensive that they could increase the risk of a ‘demographic time bomb’

Leanna Garfield, Samantha Lee

San Francisco is still the best city in the world for innovation --  here are the 6 cities that threaten to usurp its position of power

Melia Robinson