housing
Hong Kong’s subdivided units should be a minimum of 100 square feet – or 9.3 square metres – a surveyors’ group has recommended to a government taskforce studying the city’s long-standing housing issue. In a press conference on Friday, the Hong Kong Institute of Surveyors (HKIS) raised a number of suggestions for improving conditions in subdivided units, ranging from living space to fire safety requirements. The net area of subdivided flats should be no smaller than 100 square feet including the kitchen and bathroom, the group said. Around 20,000 to 30,000 currently live in subdivided dwelling...
Hong Kong Free Press
Phoenix (AFP) - Wearing a bulletproof vest and with a gun strapped to his waist, Constable Lennie McCloskey opens his folder and looks through the court orders: eleven evictions to be carried out today. "It's a slow day" in Maricopa County, Arizona, he says. Maricopa is home to Phoenix, one of the fastest growing cities in the United States, a place where rents have skyrocketed since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, leaving an ever-increasing number of people in trouble. "I typically do between 19 and 25 (evictions) a day," said McCloskey, one of 26 such officers in Maricopa. Much of the Un...
AFP
An NGO serving Hong Kong’s low-income residents has urged the government to delay the enforcement of a controversial waste charging scheme among disadvantaged tenants of “cage homes,” subdivided units and those in “three-nil” buildings. “Three-nil” buildings are generally those which lack an owners’ company, residents’ organisation or property management firm to manage the building. Alongside eight residents, the Society for Community Organisation (SoCO) went to the Legislative Council (LegCO) on Tuesday to lodge a complaint and spoke of residents’ concerns about the upcoming waste charging sc...
Hong Kong Free Press
An increasing number of low-income Europeans are expecting to be late paying key bills over the coming months because of a rise in interest rates, rents and utilities costs, according to research by the European Central Bank (ECB). "The ability of households to meet their housing-related costs and mortgage payments is a source of concern, especially for lower-income households," the researchers wrote in an ECB economic bulletin article providing a snapshot of the "household housing burden" in the largest 11 eurozone economies. Since the ECB started to raise interest rate in July 2022, overall ...
Euronews (English)
Hong Kong’s housing minister has defended an estimated HK$4.39 billion price tag for managing 30,000 temporary flats which are planned for the city, saying this would cover maintenance, cleaning, and other amenities. The units will be part of the Light Public Housing (LPH) scheme, which aims to boost the city’s short-term housing supply by providing prefabricated flats that will be retired after five years of use. The bureau’s estimate amounts to operational costs of around HK$1,000 per month for each temporary unit. The scheme, announced in Chief Executive John Lee’s maiden policy address, ca...
Hong Kong Free Press
Residents in the Canary Islands are planning protests and strikes in a backlash against overtourism. Campaigners say the unsustainable influx of visitors is ruining life in the holiday hotspot. One activist group on the island of Tenerife has planned a hunger strike over the construction of two new hotels. Others report locals sleeping in cars and caves due to soaring house prices. Graffiti has appeared on buildings and a rental car telling tourists to 'go home'. In 2023, the archipelago attracted 14.1 million foreign visitors, a record for the island group. Canary Island residents plan hunger...
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Housing will be one of the main axes of Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez's campaign ahead of the European elections, as housing and rental prices have risen by up to 70% in the last decade. In response to the soaring costs, architect Iñaki Alonso and 17 other families took the initiative in 2018 to build the first cooperative in Madrid. A building with common spaces for neighbours, its residents enjoy two-bedroom apartments for about €650 euros per month. Watch the full report in the player above to find out more.
Euronews (English)
In 2022, the flower-bedecked, lakeside town of Gérardmer in the Vosges mountains was rattled by a spate of vandalism attacks. An environmental saboteur targeted outdoor jacuzzis at holiday rentals and second homes amid rising tensions between tourists and local residents during a water shortage emergency. Since then, there has been growing discontent in holiday destinations in France as locals contend with the soaring number of second homes. Across Europe, other tourist hotspots are also feeling the strain; in Cornwall, Wales, Barcelona and Lisbon, residents are being priced out. Over 90% of p...
Euronews (English)
To combat the housing shortage in Spain, the left-wing central government has decided to end the Golden Visa programme for property investors from non-EU countries. The aim is to curb speculation, Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez explained in Seville on Monday. "We will take the necessary measures to ensure that housing is a right and not a speculative business." The Socialist politician said that the Council of Ministers would finalize the necessary amendment to the law on Tuesday in Madrid, but he did not give a possible date for the entry into force. The Golden Visa programme has allowed citize...
DPA International
To combat the housing shortage in Spain, the left-wing central government has decided to end the Golden Visa programme for property investors from non-EU countries. The aim is to curb speculation, Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez explained in Seville on Monday. "We will take the necessary measures to ensure that housing is a right and not a speculative business." The Socialist politician said that the Council of Ministers would finalize the necessary amendment to the law on Tuesday in Madrid, but he did not give a possible date for the entry into force. The Golden Visa programme has allowed citize...
DPA
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