"But supply shortages tell only half the story. In some countries, such as the UK, housing analysts note that the shortage of affordable homes is made far worse by private developers prioritising high-end projects over affordable housing."
"urban land prices, limited housing finance and weak incentives for affordable housing push developers toward luxury projects instead of affordable ones"
Soaring rents and a four-hour commute: the misery of the Lagos housing crisis
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2026/apr/15/lagos-rent-crisis-wages-housing-growth?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
✨ 💫 #newNewEconomy New business #strategy: get into an argument with Elon Musk. Over who is the bigger idiot 😂. Piss him off as much as you can… Get him to the point where he’s willing to buy off your company, maybe even for a much higher value… ??? 🤔💸 … profit! 😂 Welcome to the post-factually investment world! 😂 ✨ 💫
#BusinessStrategy #FCKElonMusk #InvestmentHumor #ProfitMotive
#UK needs #media free of #US control:
#Comcast’s move for #ITV focuses minds
Proposed combination of #Sky & ITV’s #broadcasting would leave #Channel4 relative commercial minnow in TV & digital ad sales, reigniting talk of need to revisit a form of tie-up with #BBC for long-term survival
However, it's the potential ramifications on future of #news provision that are the most immediate alarm in the #TV industry
'They delayed, they denied’:
How health #insurance industry endemically endangers many critical #California patients
https://calmatters.org/health/2025/10/health-insurance-error-denial-ghost-network/
this isn't suspicious *at all*, going after the hearts and minds of Cook Islands *children* /s
"A charity founded by a deep sea mining company sponsored a children's book about polymetallic nodules, the rocks that could be mined."
For those considering #SanFrancisco's Upzoning Plan (aka #FamilyZoningPlan) , predicated on letting for profit developers build higher and denser, we have some data:
"London boroughs with the greatest number of these rental property developments, rents have increased by 48% to 52% since 2015, exceeding the city-wide average. "
Trump moves to end NASA missions measuring carbon dioxide and plant health
The Trump administration wants to end two NASA missions that monitor a potent greenhouse gas and plant health. The move would potentially shut off an important source of data for scientists, policymakers and farmers.
#Trump #SilencingData #NASA #BigOil #ProfitMotive #DyingPlanet #Monitoring #GHG #Ecocide
"Humanity" Didn’t Cause the Climate Crisis, Capitalism Did
https://substack.com/inbox/post/169784090
Enough of this guilt-ridden nonsense that blames "humanity" for the climate crisis… As if the Indigenous communities who lived in balance with the land for millennia bear the same guilt as ExxonMobil’s board of directors…
#BigOil #GuiltCampaign #Deflection #ClimateCrisis #Capitalism #CrimesAgainstHumanity #ProfitMotive #DeflectionNarrative #ClimateJustice #ClimateAction
Bill Mayer, (in Hi-Fructose Magazine)
I think this is an accurate depiction of our (USA) national identity right now, at least the one that's on the front page. We have a sort of cold, heartless (greedy) pig in the lead, flanked by blank-eyed, soulless, terrifying dogs. There's charm on it, but, it's this.
This must have been intended to be political? I don't know what context the artist had in mind. I guess it's been like this for a while though
Liam O'Mara IV, PhD
Paul Wermer, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
Mark
LilMikeSF
A-Dub 🥝
OccuWorld
Ray Baptist