Metro – Metro.co.uk: News, Sport, Showbiz, Celebrities from Metro [Unofficial]What I Own: I flipped my £1,000,000 Essex home — it used to be a doctor’s surgery
Fusion Party AustraliaThe housing crisis in Australia isn't an accident. How one analyst thinks we can fix it
https://youtu.be/Ct0xIKWDqPA?si=jJ8RHZQlPLeNzzIk
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https://youtu.be/Ct0xIKWDqPA?si=jJ8RHZQlPLeNzzIk
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Australia has enough houses. So why can't anyone afford one? Housing economist explains.
Lichfield Live®Councillors debate decision to delay Local Plan amid concerns over 15,000 new homes target
RealJournalismMamdani Administration Announces Construction Safety Committee https://www.laborpress.org/mamdani-administration-announces-construction-safety-committee/ #NYC #NewYork #1u #Housing
N-gated Hacker NewsAh, the American Dream: a shoebox with a $1M price tag! 🏠💰 But first, jump through flaming hoops of #JavaScript and cookies to even read about it. Because who needs affordable #housing when you have browser hurdles? 🤦♂️
https://investors.zillowgroup.com/news-and-events/news/news-details/2026/A-record-242-US-cities-now-have-starter-homes-that-cost-1M/default.aspx #AmericanDream #Crisis #TechHumor #Affordability #HackerNews #ngated
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A record 242 US cities now have starter homes that cost $1M
The bar for entry-level homeownership has never been higher. While the typical starter home nationwide is worth $198,649, a record 242 cities now have starter homes valued at $1 million or more, according to a new Zillow® analysis . A typical "starter home" is defined for this analysis as a home in the lowest third of home values in a given region. The count of cities with million-dollar starter homes has grown from 226 cities a year ago, even as affordability pressures have begun to ease in parts of the country. The effects of the pandemic housing boom have proven durable. A housing shortage , a decade in the making, ran headlong into intense demand amid historic lows in mortgage rates, driving up home values at a record pace. While plenty of markets are still feeling the pinch of this price reset, conditions are slowly becoming friendlier for buyers: The typical home buyer now breaks even relative to renting after roughly six years, down from more than eight years in late 2023. "The
Tim RichardsInteresting long read about why Melbourne is attracting so many new arrivals. Covers both culture and lower housing costs - but that price gap between Melbourne and Sydney really stands out.
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'The dramatic change of fortunes in Melbourne’s housing market relative to Sydney’s and the other major state capitals has happened without much fanfare. Melbourne dwellings (covering detached houses and apartments) are at least 39 per cent cheaper than Sydney’s, according to PropTrack and CommBank. In March, the median price of a detached house in Sydney was $1.79 million, in Brisbane it was $1.21 million and in Melbourne it was $1.08 million, according to Domain: a $700,000 difference between Australia’s two biggest cities. “We’ve never had such a price differential like this before,” says demographer and social analyst Mark McCrindle, CEO of research company McCrindle.'
#Melbourne #Sydney #housing https://www.smh.com.au/national/melbourne-is-poised-to-become-our-biggest-most-liveable-city-just-don-t-mention-debt-or-crime-20260605-p604ap.html
Harms Committed"We cannot and must not tolerate Ford's secret authoritarian government."
"We need to know what Ford is doing and who he is seeing behind closed doors."
"Responsibility to protest authoritarian Ford rests with all of us."
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Title: Ford is a dangerous authoritarian
Author: Paul Kahnert
Publication: rabble
April 20, 2026
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#Ontario #Canada #Media #Transportation #Courts #Policing #Housing
https://rabble.ca/politics/canadian-politics/ford-is-a-dangerous-authoritarian/
The Guardian FeedsSt Kilda pier wins peak Victorian architecture award as judges praise playful and ‘deeply civic’ design
By Kelly Burke
State government project among range of works celebrated for community-centred design that goes beyond utility
#Architecture #Australianews #Artanddesign #Culture #Design #Housing #Melbourne #Victoria #KellyBurke
"The staff wasn't supposed to serve her solid food, but they did, and she died."
"The Coulsons were awarded nearly $19 million in damages but have yet to see any compensation from Schwartz."
"Trump pardoned Schwartz."
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Title: Trump Pardoned a Nursing Home Owner Who Owed Almost $19 Million to a Grieving Family
Author: Jeremy Kohler
Publication: ProPublica
April 20, 2026
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#USA #Pardons #Healthcare #Housing #Taxes #Lobbying
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-joseph-schwartz-pardon-lawsuit
Trump Pardoned a Nursing Home Owner Who Owed Almost $19 Million to a Grieving Family
Stories about pardons are often about presidential power. But what about people on the other side of that grace? The Coulson family may never receive millions from a wrongful death lawsuit it won years ago.
Steven Saus [he/him]Trump DOJ Outlines Dubious Path to Force People Into Psychiatric Institutions
On Thursday, the Department of Justice quietly released a memo pertaining to the landmark 1999 ...
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#disability #donald-trump #housing #mojo-wire #politics
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/06/trump-doj-memo-olmstead-psychiatric-disabilities-institutions-mental-health/
