Gurdwaras, mosques, temples and churches: how faith groups are reviving England’s old cinemas
May 16, 2024 01:43 am UTC| Insights & Views Real Estate
On the corner of Powis Street and Woolwich High Street in south-east London stands a large brick building. Its curved exterior and wide canopy over the entrance immediately signals that it is a cinema. Looking up,...
What should you do if you can’t pay your rent or mortgage?
May 11, 2024 10:37 am UTC| Real Estate Economy
The cost of living crisis is making it difficult for many people to pay their bills, including housing costs. Private sector rents have increased by an average 9% over the year to February 2024, and rising interest rates...
A ‘sponge city’ may be your home in 2050
May 09, 2024 07:04 am UTC| Insights & Views Real Estate
Your home was probably designed for a climate that no longer exists. As long as humanity continues to burn fossil fuel, padding the heat-trapping blanket of gases in Earths atmosphere, the weather will become more...
Debunking myths about community housing: What governments and the public should know
May 09, 2024 07:03 am UTC| Insights & Views Real Estate
Canadas Housing Plan is pledging an ambitious multilateral approach to build more housing, faster and cheaper, for diverse groups. It includes noteworthy new funding programs and policies to preserve and expand...
Our housing system is broken and the poorest Australians are being hardest hit
Apr 25, 2024 06:06 am UTC| Insights & Views Real Estate
Just when we think the price of rentals could not get any worse, this weeks Rental Affordability Snapshot by Anglicare has revealed low-income Australians are facing a housing crisis like never before. In fact, if you...
If you squat in a vacant property, does the law give you the house for free? Well, sort of
Apr 12, 2024 03:20 am UTC| Insights & Views Real Estate
Nothing excites law students like the idea of a free house. Or alternatively, enrages them. It depends on their politics. As a result, academics condemned to teaching property law find it hard to resist the doctrine of...
Stamp duty is holding us back from moving homes – we’ve worked out how much
Mar 18, 2024 08:54 am UTC| Insights & Views Real Estate
This article is part of The Conversations series examining the housing crisis. Read the other articles in the series here. If just one state of Australia, New South Wales, scrapped its stamp duty on real-estate...
South Africa’s plan to move away from coal: 8 steps to make it succeed
Germany lowers voting age to 16 for the European elections
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