Community Resources

Conventional thinking leads us to consider the homeless as people who are staying in emergency shelters or living outdoors. Research by the Women's National Housing and Homelessness Network and...

Namibia in Africa has a surplus of invasive plants (also known as 'encroacher bush'). There is also a serious housing shortage. A group of people in Namibia see a...

Amsterdam's current housing plan literally gives residents a hands-on role in solving the city's crisis of housing affordability. Literally. While most cities are consulting with residents, 13 sites in...

A journalist in the United Kingdom, David Ramsay, makes the case that community planning needs to give more attention to connections between neighbours. He argues that if we do,...

The stories that sell news are the disasters and things gone wrong. As someone said elsewhere, "it's not news when a plane lands safely." In the housing business this means...

People who are 'physically divergent' — different from the current physical norms — are often easy to spot. The person who carries out normal day-to-day activities in a wheelchair...

Potty: United Kingdom slang for someone who is a little bit daft. (Daft, in turn, is slang for someone who is somewhat potty) Its origins are not generally agreed...

Consider a spat between a London, Ontario church on one hand and that city's council on the other. It brings to mind a recent spat between a historic English...

Bye Bye, Public Library. Something much better, more modern has crept up the inside rail and is already well past in a race to the finish of the 'Font...

Israel is suffering from the same rampant financialization of housing afflicting capitalist societies around the world. And, like other suffering nations, it has taken what seems to be the...

Infrastructure? Two Internets? This post is premised on the idea that the events of the current pandemic have decisively demonstrated the internet as basic infrastructure for housing, as defined in...

Entites? Whether you belong to a for-profit, non-profit, or a TDHETDHE — Tribally Designated Housing Entity entity, two other corporate 'entities' have an affordable housing challenge for your consideration. Wells...

A slightly more fast and loose post, ranting completely understated

The saga of Essex Crossing began in the 1950's with the demolition of some of New York's historic gateway slums — the squalid welcome to America for waves of...

Two important factors are influencing rental housing in cities across North America. The 'millennial' age group is now facing the lifetime challenge of finding employment and shelter. The average millennial...

Capitalist democracies are committed to the right of all to speculate in a free housing market. But profit-taking is currently driving up housing prices beyond the reach of growing...

Assisting teachers into affordable housing has been considered a necessity for San Mateo Community Colleges in San Mateo, California. But these institutions are becoming aware of a small catch...

They are feckless, hedonistic, snow worshippers. Sunburned party animals with brains as empty as the back country they inhabit. Okay, so they have nice thighs and calves. Otherwise, who...

With the Tasmanian economy outstripping mainland Australian states, opportunities are being crippled by the lack of affordable housing. The jobs are there, but the housing isn't. Education finds itself in...