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6 votes
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In smart apartments, is tenants’ privacy for rent?
13 votes -
Talking to your neighbours is mandatory if you live in this block of flats – it's all part of a plan to help tackle loneliness
9 votes -
Surprise for New York renters: No more broker fees
8 votes -
Extreme Silicon Valley: A 2:30 AM bus from Salida. Tech employees move all the way into the Central Valley. Private tech shuttles follow.
6 votes -
Danish police seize Hyde Park mansion owned by Sanjay Shah, British businessman accused of defrauding Danish taxpayers
6 votes -
How poor Americans get exploited by their landlords
7 votes -
Housing discrimination made summers even hotter
3 votes -
A group of mothers, a vacant home, and a win for fair housing
5 votes -
Castle in the clouds: Celebrating the eclectic, DIY designs of Ukraine's status symbol balconies
6 votes -
How Berlin's Mietskaserne tenements became coveted urban housing
7 votes -
What’s behind the iconic floor plan of London
7 votes -
When Minneapolis segregated
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Would capping office space ease San Francisco’s housing crunch?
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Denmark's 'ghetto plan' and the communities it targets – residents of largely Muslim neighbourhoods face increased penalties for crimes and 'Danish values' lessons for children
12 votes -
Copenhagen-based firm Henning Larsen Architects has proposed a low-rise neighborhood south of central Copenhagen using all-timber construction
4 votes -
Denser housing is gaining traction on America’s east coast
9 votes -
Young women fight the government's ghetto list – this year four young women from one of Denmark's so-called ghettos, Tingbjerg, had had enough
6 votes -
I'm freaking out and need advice
My mother died last month and I've been thinking of leaving my father's house ever since then. I initially thought I'd be okay with doing that, regardless of whether or not my father would object,...
My mother died last month and I've been thinking of leaving my father's house ever since then. I initially thought I'd be okay with doing that, regardless of whether or not my father would object, but he talked with me last night saying he'd be okay if I left and now I'm FREAKING OUT.
Background: I'm 23 and living in Houston, Texas. I have an older brother who lives in Dallas who offered to take me in, but it wouldn't be very permanent as he plans on leaving the country for a trip next year and will be gone for some time. I also have a friend from high school who offered me a room, but she lives in Seattle and was fired from her job. No one else who is close to me is able to offer me a place to stay.
My concerns: I dropped out of college. I was planning on going back but then my mother died and that plan was put on hold, so I don't have any marketable skills (I've only ever worked in retail). I also don't have a job lined up anywhere else. I've never had to take on so many bills at one time and therefore I don't know much about budgeting.
I'd like to leave, but where I am it's secure and comfy. Maybe it's finally time I pushed myself out of my comfort zone and start taking control of my own life, but I don't want to risk my safety and finances on a crazy idea.
I welcome any and all advice, and thanks for reading.
edit: changed a word
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Middle-class millennials aren’t leaving home
20 votes -
The fight to make Austin affordable
4 votes -
Is it OK if someone wants to live for years on a bench?
6 votes -
In some towns in Finland, one-person households are now a majority
9 votes -
Downtown Oakland is booming
4 votes -
A writer’s prefab retreat sits lightly upon the land in Joshua Tree
5 votes -
The homeownership obsession - How buying homes became a part of the American dream—and also a nightmare
35 votes -
Scandinavia is famous for its liveable cities, but a new university course in Nordic urban planning has raised questions about replicating the region's approach elsewhere
8 votes -
Roads from the Past - a short animated history of Britain's Gypsies, Roma, and Travellers
6 votes -
I accidentally uncovered a nationwide scam on Airbnb
36 votes -
Denmark's ghettos – How one of Europe's most open countries took a hard line on immigration
7 votes -
Preparing for our prefab future
9 votes -
University of Virginia health system sues thousands of patients, seizing paychecks and putting liens on homes
14 votes -
Houses are assets not goods: What the difference between bulbs and flowers tells us about the housing market
4 votes -
How a federal court ruling on Boise’s homeless camping ban has rippled across the West
10 votes -
Oregon woman turns school buses into tiny homes for working homeless families
7 votes -
How do you achieve an efficient house move?
I'm getting my own place -- i.e. an apartment that I own, and not rent -- and I find myself needing to prepare for another house move (this'll be the 4th of such events for me), only this time...
I'm getting my own place -- i.e. an apartment that I own, and not rent -- and I find myself needing to prepare for another house move (this'll be the 4th of such events for me), only this time with a lot more stuff.
I'm in a situation where I have to plan how I proceed carefully, since the elevator isn't working yet at the new place, and I have to carry everything up 7 flights of stairs.Every single time I've done a house move in the past it's been a disaster; didn't plan at all, just stuffed things into my car and left for the new place when it was full; rinse and repeat. I'm positive I did at least double the number of trips I actually needed.
I want to think ahead on this one since the number of trips matter a lot.
What are your tips for house moving? Any weird but efficient way of packing/labeling/sorting/whatever?
Also interested in hearing the stories of your most horrible (or most enjoyable -- although I can't imagine this being the case) house moves.
PS: don't want to hire a moving company, I like doing things like this on my own.
13 votes -
Finland's 'Housing First' policy proves that homelessness is avoidable
6 votes -
Here’s what San Francisco’s most expensive home on the market looks like
13 votes -
Swedes typically stop living with their parents earlier than anywhere else in Europe – but can leaving home at a young age have a dark side?
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IKEA and the Queen of Sweden are designing homes for people with dementia
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How private equity eroded the right to housing
6 votes -
Many properties in rural Sweden are simply abandoned as more people move to the towns and cities
7 votes -
‘Vehicle ranching’ in Seattle: Inside the underground market of renting RVs to homeless people
6 votes -
The tyranny of lawns and landlords: Renting culture puts dreams of cultivating wildness out of reach
16 votes -
Suburb in the sky: How Jakartans built an entire village on top of a mall
9 votes -
Cities: Skylines | Power, Politics, & Planning: Episode 6: Public Housing Part 2
11 votes -
New measure would link jobs and housing in San Francisco
8 votes -
New York landlords call rent control laws an 'illegal taking' in new Federal lawsuit
3 votes -
Albuquerque takes steps to meet the needs of Native American residents
5 votes -
When affordable housing in Shanghai is a bed in the kitchen
4 votes