Housing Issues Are on the Ballot. Here’s What to Know. nytimes.com/2026/10/30/reale…
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Amazing animated globe by @tulparmaps. Have a look at the poorer regions. Lots of progress was achieved in the last 30 years!
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Starting today, Airbnb donates a portion of revenue from every stay to Airbnb․org to help provide free short-term housing for people displaced by disaster, traveling for medical care, or facing other crises.
Guests don’t pay more and hosts don’t earn less. You’re helping simply by traveling.
Learn more at airbnb.org/airbnb
How Every Airbnb Stay Will Now Help Turn Nine Million Homes Into A Safety Net For People In Crisis via @forbes forbes.com/sites/afdhelaziz/…
Why Americans have stopped buying new homes (from @TheEconomist) economist.com/graphic-detail…
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"Don’t feel sorry for millennials. They are living it up now" economist.com/finance-and-ec…
"The Economist has assembled data on millennials’ incomes for 32 rich countries. In just three of these—Italy, Greece and Japan—are millennials worse off"
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Kudos to Aziz for using a more sophisticated methodology than the most of the rent vs own slop.
Buying a house is a wonderful thing but do it because you want it, not as your primary financial investment.
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The financial advantage of owning over renting is much slimmer than most people think.
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In 2024, the median small farm lost roughly ~$2,800.
Last year, the typical farm stay host on Airbnb earned ~$8,000.
That gap is why we're partnering with American Farmland Trust to offer farmers up to $10,000 to start or expand a farm stay.
foxnews.com/travel/farmers-o…
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750,000 homes across the country are ready to build, and stuck without final funding.
They've cleared the hurdles. They just need the last dollars to break ground.
Today, we're doing something about it. Introducing the Airbnb Housing Accelerator. 🧵
700,000 Homes Over 10 Years: The Fix for New York’s Housing Crisis nytimes.com/2026/08/19/nyreg…
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There are lots of explanations for high home prices. But academic papers that cite regulation as the primary driver have been cited 6x more than papers which cite other reasons.
JPMorgan Chase said it is investing $750 billion as part of an initiative to support homeownership in the U.S. wsj.com/finance/banking/jpmo… via @WSJ
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Apartment rent-to-income ratios have fallen to the lowest levels since prior to the pandemic, at least for market-rate apartments (which cater to mid- and upper-income renters).
Encouraging sign of renter financial health.
Where should you move for higher pay? economist.com/graphic-detail…
For some families, the answer to the housing crisis is in the backyard wapo.st/4vhbXTE
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A new RAND study of impact fees finds that a 25% reduction in such fees would increase the number of feasible housing developments by 20%, and pay for itself via increased taxed revenue.
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The Terner Center seeks a Director of Operations & Strategy to provide leadership across fund development, operations, finance, communications, & organizational planning that supports our work to advance high-impact housing research & policy engagement. ternercenter.berkeley.edu/ca…
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A man-made crisis in DC's "affordable housing" market, in 3 steps:
"the system that was put in place also...created enormous incentives for tenants to not pay rent"
"What followed was a massive surge in unpaid rents"
"rent nonpayment in LIHTC properties in DC is so high that these properties are, on average, operating at a loss"
