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A housing shortage estimated at 4 million to 7 million homes is driving up rents, prices, and homelessness nationwide, spurring cities, towns, and increasingly states to consider passing laws to allow more housing. Many of these efforts are gaining broad acceptance, but others face more resistance. Why? A survey conducted for The Pew Charitable Trusts provides some insights.

A swing constituency could help allow more homes

Georgia State

Daily Mail

Many Americans are moving from large coastal cities to smaller towns, with states like California losing significant populations. Cities and towns across the US are offering financial incentives

How seven US cities are offering residents up to $50,000 to move there

Groton, CT

The US Sun

A MAJOR housing complex is paying its residents to settle claims it failed to maintain properties. Branford Manor Apartments in Connecticut set aside $12.25 million for current and former residents. The apartment complex has dozens of units in Groton, near the coastal city of New London. Tenants sued the landlord...

Americans can claim up to $6,000 from $12.25m housing settlement – and the amount you get is based on your age

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Southside Matt

As stated by The Zebra in their History of U.S. Homeownership: how housing has changed since 1960, “The United States is in the midst of a housing crisis.” They report that 40 million renters are currently at risk of eviction. That equates to almost half of the renters in the U.S. in serious danger of losing their homes. While minority residents, primarily Black and LatinX, are disproportionately affected by this, the current economic situation has caused this to hit all races.

Homelessness being outlawed

Markets Insider

Even without population growth, construction is not enough to stop a national housing shortage, Zillow says.

Why America's housing shortage is getting worse, even as construction sees its biggest boom in 16 years

Maine State

When children grow up and move out, their bedrooms often get a second life as a workout room, a craft space or an office. But empty nesters are also growing older, and soon enough those extra rooms—along with the rest of the house—can become, at best, underused, and at worst, a burden to maintain for those who want to age at home.

How matchmaking can address two housing needs

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NewSantaAna

The FBI has seen a rise in scams targeting timeshare owners. In this kind of scam, criminals con these part-time property owners into shelling out hefty sums of cash, all under false pretenses related to their timeshare properties.

FBI warns that Mexican cartels are targeting Americans with timeshare scams

Housing security for New Zealand's 1.7 million renters could be threatened if the Residential Tenancies Amendment Bill becomes law. Among some potentially positive changes in the amendment—such as the introduction of a pet bond—are rule changes that could cause real harm to renters. In particular, the proposed return of "no-cause" evictions is troubling.

No-cause evictions have the potential to hurt renters—with little gain for good landlords

Washington State

This story is republished from Propublica original article. When the COVID-19 pandemic upended the workplace, jobs went remote, offices had to adopt new technologies and longtime employees suddenly departed. Federal stimulus dollars flooded into state and local government accounts, and fraudsters had a heyday. The pandemic was only one of...

How local government fraud has—and hasn’t—changed since the pandemic

Alabama State

This story is republished from Stateline original article. When Hurricane Sally struck coastal Alabama in 2020, many residents saw the roofs torn from their homes or damaged by the high winds. But not Matt Fetner. “Every house around had blue tarps on it, except for mine,” said the resident of...

One state is pioneering paying for roof upgrades as storms boost insurance costs

Franklinton, LA

The Town of Franklinton, Louisiana, located about 70 miles north of New Orleans, not far from the Mississippi border, came under fire from the Justice Department for allegedly violating the Fair Housing Act by blocking a proposed affordable housing development within the town. The Justice Dept. contends that the town discriminated based on race and color of potential residents when it blocked zoning for a housing development that would have been financed under tax incentives to subsidize construction of housing for low-income tenants. It’s an interesting case of alleged housing discrimination that should put other communities on notice when approving (or not) new housing.

Town blocks affordable housing – Justice Department calls it discrimination

In America, home prices are at record highs while hundreds of thousands are homeless.

Renters are struggling more than homeowners in America’s tough housing market, report says

San Francisco, CA

Joshua Tree, CA

GOBankingRates

The real estate market has grown substantially from year to year over the past decade. According to Statista, the residential real estate market is seeing a surge in demand and is projected to...

Housing Market 2024: Cross These 4 Cities Off Your Homebuying List

New York State

As legal action rumbles on against one state’s law to regulate young people’s use of social media, another state is advancing its own law to curb the platforms’ habit-forming practices. The New York legislature last week voted to approve the Stop Addictive Feeds Exploitation for Kids Act,...

Bills restricting social media advance amid continued legal battles

This story was originally published on The Markup. Read the original here, or lea esta historia en Español. This article is co-published with CalMatters, a nonprofit, nonpartisan media venture explaining California policies and politics. In 2019 and 2020, three Black men were accused of, and jailed for, crimes they...

These wrongly arrested black men say a California bill would let police misuse face recognition

San Diego, CA

24/7 Wall St.

As inflation grows out of control, wages remain stagnant, private equity firms buy more homes and apartments than ever before, city government limits the construction of new homes, and landlords increase rent beyond reasonable levels, many people are left desperate and struggling to make ends meet or even find a place to live. This is […]
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10 Cities That Have Become ‘Impossibly Unaffordable’

As summer approaches, plenty of teenagers nationwide are gearing up for their first jobs. This should be a positive experience, as they gain skills, earn money and develop a solid work ethic that will serve them for the future. But in recent years, the U.S. has seen a harrowing rise in child labor violations; many teenagers work excessively long hours, risking their physical health and (during the school year) their education. In some extreme cases, minors have worked in meatpacking plants, construction sites and auto manufacturers.

Work permits: A readily-implemented lever for reducing illegal child labor

Philadelphia, PA

This story first appeared at The 74, a nonprofit news site covering education. Read the original here. The Philadelphia school district is 18,000 students smaller than it was a decade ago, but you wouldn’t know it by looking at its $4.5 billion budget for next school year. Officials are...

Big districts like Philadelphia ‘gamble’ on higher spending as enrollment falls, study finds

Illinois State

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Chicago, IL

Chicago Happenings

Every year, new laws that were passed the prior year go into effect on July 1. In 2024, a number of new laws will begin this Monday. Among them include higher wages for tipped employees, a gas tax increase, and driver's licenses for undocumented immigrants.

New Laws July 1: Driver's Licenses for Undocumented Migrants, Raises for Tipped Workers, and More

This story was first posted on the Washington State Standard. Read the original here. Imagine if anyone with an opioid addiction could walk into a local treatment center and receive medication for their addiction, primary care, emotional counseling and many more health and social services — all for free without an appointment.

Could this state's health ‘hub’ model treating opioid addiction go nationwide?

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This housing fix could help build more homes. But firefighters are sounding the alarm.

The U.S. needs an additional 4.3 million apartment units in the next decade to match the growing demand for affordable housing, experts project. But housing development...

This housing fix could help build more homes. But firefighters are sounding the alarm.

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