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A collection of resources about the FIRE movement, focusing on strategies for achieving financial independence and early retirement. Explore budgeting techniques, investment strategies, passive income generation, and lifestyle design to help individuals gain control over their finances and retire on their terms.
Cities in Europe: budget friendly cheaper cities for expats
A collection of articles and videos looking at nyc
a collection of articles and resources looking at The Challenge of Affordable Housing in Fast-Growing Urban Centers
Opendoor competitors - iBuyer model of Online housing and Real estate
Opendoor - Online housing and Real estate startup
Land value tax - idea to reform taxes to improve cities, Affordable Housing
a collection of articles and resources looking at The Challenge of Affordable Housing in Fast-Growing Urban Centers
a collection of articles and resources looking Taxes, Affordable Housing, and Fast-Growing Urban Centers
San Francisco - government, policy issues
San Francisco and the Challenge of Affordable Housing in Fast-Growing Urban Centers
A collection of articles and videos about Smart homes and the Internet of Things (IoT)
a collection of articles and video about Home Improvement, and DIY projects and the ROI Money savings
Rentals: Real estate and personal finances - using rental properties
Home Appraisals - for buying / selling a house
Purchasing Real Estate - guides for buying / selling a house
Home Inspection - for buying / selling a house
Real Estate, Housing - Renovating, Upgrading your Home
Taxes and Real Estate, Housing - Renovating, Upgrading your Home
A collection of articles about Key Biscayne (Miami neighborhood) - real estate, environment, ocean
A collection of articles about the Mortgage and Housing Business
a collection of articles and resources to help decide - Rent or Buy a House?
Tools for measuring Flood risk - for real estate insurance, risk and uncertainty
Miami real estate - flooding, sea level rise, climate change
Tools for measuring Flood risk - for real estate insurance, risk and uncertainty
Real Estate and the Economic Impact of COVID19 Coronavirus (USA)
Real estate and personal finances - flipping houses, renovation of properties, homes
A collection of articles and videos about Smart homes and the Internet of Things (IoT)
Retrofitting Old Buildings to be more energy efficient, resilient
Flood Insurance - global warming, risk and uncertainty

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Article

Housing. Rent, killed. If you can’t find a place to rent, blame the government

Foolish crusades against landlords have made housing shortages worse | Leaders (2025)


Article

How land value tax could fix the housing crisis | World Economic Forum

Land value tax incentivizes landowners to improve their land and has been shown to boost housing supply, experts say. Land value tax is a tax on... (2022)


Article

Balkan money-laundering is booming | The Economist

The property market makes a good place to hide ill-gotten gains | Europe (2021)


Article

The Man Who Retired at 27: Why You Should Consider House-Hacking

Way back in the olden days, people used to be amazed at my life story. I was “The Man Who Retired at 30”, and it was so unusual that it would show ... (2020)


Article

Opinion | California Is Making Liberals Squirm - The New York Times

If progressivism can’t work there, why should the country believe it can work anywhere else? (2021)


Article

Zeus Living lost millions after Covid struck. Here's how it resurrected itself. (Video)

The pandemic decimated the luxury short-term housing rental and property management startup Zeus Living, nearly crushing the San Francisco company ... (2021)


Article

FAQs about Home Inspection | American Society of Home Inspectors, ASHI

Learn more about the FAQs about Home Inspection. (2021)


Article

Hurricanes destroy beachside homes, but not this one

On October 10, Hurricane Michael spun Category 4 winds around the upper reaches of the Sunshine State, but one structure withstood the storm, despi... (2020)


Article

Bloomberg - San Francisco Apartment Rents Crater Up to 31%, Most in U.S.

San Francisco’s sky-high apartment rents are falling fast. The median monthly rate for a studio in the city tumbled 31% in September from a year... (2020)


Article

A Pandemic Is a Terrible Time to Buy Real Estate - Bloomberg

Home prices are high and so is uncertainty More than 40 % of Americans are working from home, and among them the urge to “work nest” is strong. ... (2020)


Article

Bloomberg - Fed’s Mortgage-Buying Spree at $1 Trillion With No End in Sight

By Christopher Maloney September 1, 2020, 11:59 AM EDT Updated on September 1, 2020, 6:23 PM EDT The bank now owns 30% of outstanding agency m... (2020)


Article

One-Third of American Renters Expected to Miss Their August Payment - Blooming

An expansive census survey reveals a nation stretched to the brink by the financial toll of pandemic. (2020)


Article

Hospitality Startup Sonder Raises $170 Million At A $1.3 Billion Valuation During Covid-19 Travel Collapse

Despite damage Covid-19 has inflicted on the travel and hospitality industry, home-sharing startup Sonder has raised $170 million to expand to new ... (2020)


Article

Eerie Calm Settles on Housing Market, Defying Doomsayers for Now - Bloomberg

June 2020 Pandemic hasn’t brought wave of defaults that some predicted. Expiring stimulus could renew distress for owners and renters. The i... (2020)


Article

The Coral Gables Problem Beneath the Surface

Nearly half of Coral Gables residences are on septic tanks. Many may be leaking. As sea levels rise, how big a problem is that? % Keon says “the... (2020)


Article

Rising Seas Threaten an American Institution: The 30-Year Mortgage - The New York Times

Climate change is starting to transform the classic home loan, a fixture of the American experience and financial system that dates back generations. (2020)


Article

Demolishing the California Dream: How San Francisco Planned Its Own Housing Crisis

Shop for—and learn—about vintage and antiques. Browse the best of eBay, connect with other collectors, and explore the history behind y... (2019)


Article

California Approves Statewide Rent Control to Ease Housing Crisis - The New York Times

The measure, affecting millions of tenants, is the biggest step in a nationwide surge of initiatives to address rising costs and homelessness. (2019)


Article

How California Became America’s Housing Market Nightmare - Bloomberg (2019)

California, the land of golden dreams, has become America’s worst housing nightmare. Recent wildfires have only heightened the stakes for a stat... (2019)


Article

Chicago Finds a Way to Improve Public Housing: Libraries - The New York Times

Other cities have combined books and subsidized housing, but the outgoing mayor, Rahm Emanuel, has embraced the concept with three striking new pro... (2019)


Article

Huge funding rounds for Opendoor and Offerpad show how expensive Zillow’s bet on home sales could be

Buying and selling hundreds or even thousands of homes at the same time gets pretty expensive — just ask Opendoor and Offerpad. The two real estate... (2019)


Article

Real Estate’s Latest Bid: Zillow Wants to Buy Your House - The New York Times

Offering “instant buying” to home sellers, companies like Zillow and Opendoor are bringing liquidity to the housing market. Critics fear they will ... (2019)


Article

Berlin Builds an Arsenal of Ideas to Stage a Housing Revolution - CityLab

Will Karl Marx Allee Spark Berlin's Housing Revolution? The proposals might seem radical—from banning huge corporate landlords to freezing rents... (2019)


Article

What Amazon’s HQ2 Pullout Means for Housing in Queens - CityLab

The arrival of the tech company’s new headquarters was set to shake up the borough’s real estate market, driving up rents and spurring displacement... (2019)


Article

Microsoft Pledges $500 Million for Affordable Housing in Seattle Area - The New York Times

The move is the most ambitious effort yet by a tech company to fund construction for local teachers, firefighters and other middle- and low-income ... (2019)


Article

The cofounder of Casper wants to make home renovations less hellish - Fast Company

Block Renovation won’t just redo your bathroom for you. The new startup will finish it in three weeks, for 25% less than you’d pay a regular contra... (2018)


Article

You might find your next home on Amazon — Quartz

Real estate technology will soon compress buying, selling, and renting in an app. Big Tech will soon become our landlords, too. (2018)


Article

How Big Tech Swallowed Seattle || Bloomberg

Two tech titans made billions and remade the city. Is it any better off? (2018)


Article

There's New Research Behind the Contention that Airbnb Raises Rents || CityLab

A preliminary analysis of 100 U.S. metro areas suggests Airbnb bears at least some responsibility for soaring housing costs. (2018)


Article

The world’s first “high-tech eco village” will reinvent suburbs

ReGen village, in the Netherlands, will collect and store its own water and energy, grow its own food, and process much of its own waste. Also: no ... (2018)


Video

Using real estate investing, This attorney plans to retire by 42 and live virtually tax-free | FIRE Starters

Seattle attorney Sylvia Hall worked off six figures in student debt on her path to financial independence. Now, she plans to use real estate to pay... (2024)


Video

Why America's Biggest Cities Are Littered With Vacant Lots | WSJ

From New York to Austin, America’s biggest cities are littered with vacant plots of land because property tax bills can skyrocket once vacant lots ... (2023)


Video

How Singapore Solved Housing

How Singapore Solved Housing (2022)


Video

Why Everywhere in the US is Starting to Look the Same

Why Everywhere in the US is Starting to Look the Same (2022)


Video

This Town Was Paradise, Then Everyone Started Working From Home

Freed from traditional offices, remote workers are relocating all over the country, fueling "Zoom booms" in remote towns. In Crested Butte, Colorad... (2021)


Video

Liberal Hypocrisy is Fueling American Inequality. Here’s How. | NYT Opinion

It’s easy to blame the other side. And for many Democrats, it’s obvious that Republicans are thwarting progress toward a more equal society.But wha... (2021)


Video

Evictions (housing) - Coronavirus IX, Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

LastWeekTonight With evictions on the rise due to coronavirus, John Oliver discusses the long struggle with housing in the US, why it’s gotten ... (2020)


Video

Making It | What It Costs To Live In San Francisco

VICE News Published on Sep 11, 2017 Perennially perched at or near the top of lists of America’s most expensive and affluent cities, San Franci... (2019)


Video

Inside Hong Kong’s cage homes - Vox

Vox Published on Aug 15, 2018 When houses are the size of parking spaces. Hong Kong is the most expensive housing market in the world. It has ... (2018)


Video

When Software Eats the Real (Estate) World - a16z

Buying a home is in many ways the pinnacle of the American dream. And yet the way things work today, it's a painful process. Real estate agents, br... (2018)


Video

7 principles for building better cities | Peter Calthorpe | TED

More than half of the world's population already lives in cities, and another 2.5 billion people are projected to move to urban areas by 2050. The ... (2018)


Video

Do I Need To Buy A House? | PBS

The importance of homeownership is still embedded in American culture, but actual homeownership has dropped to its lowest level since 1967. How sho... (2018)


Podcast

Did Hurricane Ian Bust Florida’s Housing Boom? - The Daily | Podcast on Spotify

Listen to this episode from The Daily on Spotify. Since Hurricane Ian devastated southwestern Florida last month, residents have filed a record num... (2022)


Podcast

Millions of Americans face stigma of moving back in with their parents

As the financial crisis deepens, many adults are moving back home. But the trend started before the pandemic. (2020)


Podcast

Real Estate in a Pandemic: Homeowners and Buyers (Part 1) - a16z

This episode is the first in a two-part series that examines the pandemic’s impact on real estate. Part 1 focuses on prospective home buyers, selle... (2020)


Podcast

An Investment Expert Says Florida Homeowners Should Sell Property Now As Climate Impacts Worsen | WLRN

An expert on the impact of climate change on financial markets has advice for anyone thinking of buying a home in Florida: don’t. Spencer Glendon o... (2019)


Podcast

a16z Podcast: Real Estate — Ownership, Asset, Economy – Andreessen Horowitz

The largest asset class in the United States is owner-occupied real estate, yet options for homeowners accessing this are very binary right now: ei... (2017)


Website

Housing Inspection - Standard of Practice

| American Society of Home Inspectors, ASHI ASHI's Standard of Practice is a reference tool to guide inspectors through thorough home inspectio... (2021)


Website

Flood Factor - Find Your Home's Flood Factor

Flood Factor is a free online tool created by the nonprofit First Street Foundation that makes it easy for Americans to find their property’s past ... (2020)


Website

Flood Zone Maps - Miami-Dade County

The Federal Emergency Management Agency's (FEMA) detailed digital flood hazard maps reflect current flood risks for Miami-Dade County. (2020)


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