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- NYC banned Airbnbs to make housing cheaper, but only made hotels more expensive https://www.businessinsider.com/airbnb-numbers-shrink-hotel-prices-soar-ban-nyc-2024-6 56 comments
- What makes housing so expensive? https://www.construction-physics.com/p/what-makes-housing-so-expensive 206 comments
- Housing market threatens to make all Americans' lives more expensive https://www.newsweek.com/housing-market-threatens-make-all-americans-lives-more-expensive-1859961 26 comments economics
- An early Renaissance masterpiece found in a French woman’s kitchen during a house clearance has fetched more than €24m at auction, making it the most expensive medieval painting ever sold. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/oct/27/renaissance-painting-cimabue-found-kitchen-france-sells-24m-euros-auction 3 comments worldnews
- Trump’s housing finance plan will make mortgages more expensive, especially for black borrowers, say housing groups https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2019/09/10/trumps-housing-finance-plan-will-make-mortgages-more-expensive-especially-black-borrowers-say-housing-groups/?tid=sm_tw 13 comments politics
- My partner is a dentist and make more than I do; how should we split housing expenses? https://www.reddit.com/r/personalfinance/comments/adw913/my_partner_is_a_dentist_and_make_more_than_i_do/ 19 comments personalfinance
- Ben Carson's New Public Housing Proposal Would Make Rent More Expensive for Millions of Families http://time.com/5255278/ben-carson-public-housing-rent-increase/ 5 comments politics
- "The White House has moved to make the results of federally funded research available to the public for free within a year, bowing to public pressure for unfettered access to scholarly articles and other materials produced at taxpayers' expense." http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/02/24/us-usa-whitehouse-information-idusbre91n01c20130224 35 comments politics
- a third of American workers report being kept awake at night because they worry they can't make housing payments, credit cards, or other personal expenses http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com/2008/06/peak-credit.html 2 comments reddit.com
- How central urban planning makes housing more expensive for the poor http://www.lewrockwell.com/french/french45.html 21 comments reddit.com
- The U.S. housing market has gotten so expensive that income would have to jump 55% to make buying 'affordable,' real estate executive says https://fortune.com/2023/10/09/housing-market-prices-affordability-mortgage-rates-real-estate-home-income/ 116 comments economy
- Housing market is so expensive now that income would have to jump 55% to make buying 'affordable' https://fortune.com/2023/10/09/housing-market-prices-affordability-mortgage-rates-real-estate-home-income/amp/ 17 comments economy
- India's soaring economy hurts poor ~ Property in Mumbai is among the most expensive in the world. But the high demand for housing is coming at a cost to the poor. Families of Dharavi slum are being evicted to make way for billion-dollar apartment developments. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3m9ngydfbxi 9 comments worldnews
- I'd like to buy property and/or a house in a foreign country. Maybe somewhere in Central America. I make $73,000/year and don't have a lot of expenses. Where's the easiest place to accomplish this? I'd like somewhere that my dollar will go pretty far. https://www.reddit.com/r/personalfinance/comments/68qvwn/id_like_to_buy_property_andor_a_house_in_a/ 3 comments personalfinance
- House Passes Bill To Make Everything Harder And Worse - “It’s telling that the newly-empowered Republican majority in Congress has made it its first order of business to protect the profits of its corporate benefactors at the expense of the public interest,” writes Shapiro. http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2015/01/14/3611558/house-starts-year-with-anti-regulation-crusade/ 14 comments politics
- The easiest way to increase housing supply and make housing more affordable is to deregulate zoning rules in the most expensive cities – "Modest deregulation in high-demand cities is associated with substantially more housing production than substantial deregulation in low-demand cities" https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1051137724000019 675 comments science
- Washington Examiner ignores White House statement that Obama's Christmas vacation expenses are in line with those of previous presidents - and posts figures estimated by a conservative newspaper/opinion journal to make the Obamas look like outrageous spenders. http://washingtonexaminer.com/blogs/beltway-confidential/2010/12/president-and-family-multi-million-dollar-christmas-vacation-hawa 5 comments politics