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The road to better, cheaper housing starts in your neighbourhood. : Photo by Larry Snickers: Pexels.com https://www.pexels.com/license/

Governments around the world are searching for how to fix housing affordability, but the solutions will have to be local and community based.

Housing affordability

Why building more won’t make houses affordable

Governments around the world are searching for how to fix housing affordability, but the solutions will have to be local and community based.

Economy
The challenge for Australia is how best to help the young get their foot on the ‘property ladder’. : Susannah Binstead/Finder via Flickr https://www.flickr.com/photos/193687615@N08/51358087313 CCBY2.0

Cashed-up parents and governments hold the key to helping a generation of Australians buy a home.

Housing affordability

How to help the young buy a home

Cashed-up parents and governments hold the key to helping a generation of Australians buy a home.

Economy
Leasing your way to owning: How do rent-to-buy schemes measure up against the alternatives? : Unsplash: Andy Wang Unsplash Licence (https://unsplash.com/license)

Fewer young people have the means to buy their first home, but is there a way to shortcut a failing system?

Housing Affordability

How you could rent your way to buying a first home

Fewer young people have the means to buy their first home, but is there a way to shortcut a failing system?

Economy
Owning your own home increasingly feels out of reach for many. : Unsplash: Tom Rumble Unsplash Licence (https://unsplash.com/license)

How political parties have influenced our desire to own our own homes.

Housing affordability

Home ownership is not only personal but political

Economy
The British-style planning system brings uncertainty into the development process that can get in the way of projects being built. Unsplash: Jamie Street Unsplash Licence : Jamie Street, Unsplash Unsplash Licence

A hard-to-see difference in building planning systems is making the business of creating houses a riskier, more expensive gambit in countries like Britain.

Housing affordability

Playing by the rules could help the housing crisis

Economy
Indian cities are experiencing a severe affordable rental housing crisis, with a steady decline in available rentals. : Saransh Sinha via Unsplash Unsplash Licence

The rise in short-term rentals has put pressure on rentals in India to such a degree, it might be time for authorities to step in.

Housing affordability

Airbnb has driven up rents in India

Economy
There are solutions to the housing affordability crisis : Gustavo Rezende via Pixabay (https://pixabay.com/illustrations/village-houses-street-town-city-7027249/) Pixabay Licence

The world faces a squeeze on affordable housing.

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Housing affordability

What can be done about the homes crisis

Special Report
If and when it does run out of cash, the US will default on its obligations to repay borrowers and make payments to individuals and businesses. : Farsnews.ir CCBY4.0

As the US hits its $31 trillion debt ceiling, there’s a danger it could default. Yet the solution to avoiding the debt ceiling is surprisingly simple.

Governments in the red

How the US could easily avoid default

Economy
Korean giant business is facing downturn : “Gangnam IT Business District” by Kaiser Rangwala is available at https://bit.ly/40JHhLB CC by 2.0

Korea’s family-owned conglomerates have enjoyed their privileges for decades. That may be set to end.

Asian capitalism

Korea’s chaebol set to enter the twilight zone?

Economy