Tagged With Housing Crisis

'Big Short' investor Michael Burry, the man who predicted the 2008 housing collapse, dumped these 5 stocks from his portfolio in the third quarter

Shalini Nagarajan

A startup wants to turn your garage into a tiny home and give you $500 a month to help quell a crushing housing shortage. Here's what the homes look like.

Katie Canales

The startup behind these $199,000 backyard tiny homes that can be built in a a day just raised $3.5 million — take a look

Mary Meisenzahl

Police were armed with riot gear, a battering ram, and a robot to evict 2 homeless mums and 2 activists from an empty house they were occupying to protest California's housing crisis

Paulina Cachero

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