Showing posts with label housing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label housing. Show all posts
Thursday, July 31, 2025

LA's leadership puts a stop to more housing while simultaneously launching a raid on a massive homeless encampment

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#BREAKING : Scuffle breaks out during homeless encampment sweep in the San Fernando Valley. https://t.co/Ac3bfx4cX1 pic.twitter.com/oDzDWds...
Monday, May 13, 2024

The owners of high-end market Erewhon filed a lawsuit to fight the building of a new apartment complex

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LAT : The owners of Erewhon have filed an environmental lawsuit against the city of Los Angeles, the latest attempt by the upscale supermark...
Friday, March 29, 2024

Caltrans workers accused of building themselves secret mini-apartments inside train stations

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Mercury News : reportedly featured a kitchen, shower, plumbing and security cameras. Prosecutors said the two defendants worked together to ...
Wednesday, February 21, 2024

Deranged tiny apartment layout in Tokyo

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@tokyolens 45 Seconds in Tokyos CRAZIEST TINY APARTMENT #tiny #tinyapartment #microapartment #tinyliving #japaneseapartment #tokyoap...
Thursday, January 18, 2024

A superior court judge "blocked [Beverly Hills] from issuing all building permits except for new residential development as a penalty for Beverly Hills’ failure to approve a sufficient blueprint for affordable housing"

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LAT : In recent months, the city approved a $100,000 basement spa in the $125-million mega-mansion owned by WhatsApp co-founder Jan Koum, ex...
Friday, August 4, 2023

"Famously reclusive" town near San Francisco lost its post office because there's no available building to lease

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SFGate : The unincorporated Marin County community, whose population hovers around 1,500, lost its post office in March following a lease di...
Friday, June 16, 2023

Canadian tribes contemplating plan to build "more homes than currently exist in most of Vancouver’s 22 neighbourhoods"

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Vancouver Sun : The neighbourhood groups that opposed the earlier vision are unlikely to welcome the new, bigger, denser, taller version. Bu...
Tuesday, January 31, 2023

Interior camera captured the moment a massive boulder smashed through a Honolulu home

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(Video has audio.) (The area is  north of Diamond Head .)   KITV : According to the Honolulu Police Department, the boulder appeared...
Friday, October 21, 2022

The former Buffalo police headquarters was converted into 114 luxury apartments, and the jail cells are available as work spaces

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View this post on Instagram A post shared by The Police Apartments (@thepoliceapartments) Official site , and one w...
Friday, May 6, 2022

Angels owner no longer has to build vast majority of affordable housing units he agreed to build

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LAT : In order to preserve the Angel Stadium land sale, the city of Anaheim made a deal last week. Angels owner Arte Moreno agreed to pay $9...
Wednesday, March 2, 2022

Today's funny posts

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Huh... #MaryWorth pic.twitter.com/pU6WhEBg9H — Ben Towle (@ben_towle) February 20, 2022 Excuse me, what? #MaryWorth pic.twitter.com/hOfl...
Friday, December 24, 2021

"Private Military Landlord Pleads Guilty, Must Pay $65 Million for Defrauding Air Force, Other Services"

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Air Force Magazine : Balfour Beatty Communities maintained two sets of maintenance records at some bases—one detailing issues of mold, asbes...
Wednesday, November 10, 2021

Now, parking lots in Los Angeles demand you download a tracking app

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The LA Times looks at one you're pressured to download if you park at Trader Joe's: “Metropolis re-engineered the legacy parking ex...
Saturday, November 6, 2021

An investigation asserts that a San Francisco supervisor has "blocked homes for 8,587 people, and opposed them for 28,708"

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Here's a thread , and  this is the SF Chronicle's write up. The supervisor tweeted a response . 
Sunday, September 5, 2021

New York's "mayor estimates there are 50,000 illegal basement units with more than 100,000 residents"

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CBS : A majority of the storm-related deaths happened in Queens in basement units, and despite the tragedies, they’re here to stay. “I don’t...
Sunday, August 29, 2021

"One housing project has turned into an epic San Francisco battle"

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San Francisco Chronicle on one owner's attempt to add four units to his property (including two affordable): To some of his neighbors, ...
Sunday, May 2, 2021

Three strange stories about art

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2. Notice the antebellum-style portrait behind Kemp as he signs the suppression law? Thanks to Twitter crowdsourcing and particularly @TheSe...
Thursday, April 15, 2021

Berlin's rent cap was declared illegal, and now shadow rent clauses takes effect

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Guardian : Germany’s highest court has ruled that a rent cap imposed by the Berlin state government is illegal, dealing a huge blow to those...
Wednesday, August 7, 2019

"Zillow Is Buying And Selling Lots Of Homes And It's Almost Half Its Business Now"

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Buzzfeed : Zillow is now buying thousands of properties, investing in minor repairs, and then selling them — essentially flipping houses —...
Saturday, July 20, 2019

"Sierra La Verne Country Club is closing Sunday, here’s what the city is doing in response"

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Daily Bulletin : “We can’t require them to continue to irrigate everything, but there are certain things that we can do under our current ...