How to Build Abundantly : The Indicator From Planet Money

How to build abundantly : The Indicator from Planet Money

Why is building affordable housing so hard these days? We talk to author Derek Thompson about his new book with Ezra Klein, Abundance, about what they believe is keeping affordable housing out of reach in high-income cities. Related: How big is the US housing shortage? (Apple / Spotify) How California's speed rail was always going to blow out (Apple / Spotify) Why building public transit costs so much For sponsor-free episodes of The Indicator f…

The president of the German housing and real estate company GdW, Axel Gedaschko, called for a prioritisation of housing projects for affordable housing. In a conversation with the "Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung" (NOZ) Gedaschko said: "We need a 'almost lane' for housing. This means that a balancing priority is laid like an umbrella over all other laws when it comes to concrete projects, to concrete planning, to the concrete construction plan." {/mpre…

The government wants to recognize affordable housing as being in the public interest, which would allow the state to intervene in property rights.

The first ever money from the European Investment Bank (EIB) to finance affordable housing will flow to the Czech Republic. The loan of 60 million euros (equivalent to 1.5 billion crowns) was received by Česká spořitelna. The agreement was presented on Monday by representatives of the EIB, Česká spořitelna, politicians and the management of two Prague faculty...

Affordable housing could be recognised as matter of ‘public interest’

A draft law presented by Housing Minister Claude Meisch could soon recognise affordable housing as a matter of “public interest”, potentially reinforcing the constitutional right to housing, including the right to carry out expropriations.