Senior care is crushingly expensive. Boomers aren’t ready. – The Washington Post
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2023/03/18/senior-care-costs-too-high/
The $40 Billion Housing Headache Facing New York’s Next Mayor
The $40 Billion Housing Headache Facing New York’s Next Mayor [“https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-05-27/the-40-billion-housing-headache-facing-new-york”]
Where Did Brad Pitt’s Make it Right Foundation Go Wrong? | Architectural Digest
https://www.architecturaldigest.com/story/brad-pitt-make-it-right-foundation-new-orleans-katrina-lawsuit
The Catch
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/extra/tgh54itx0b/grenoble-children-jump-from-fire
The Trump administration may privatize Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac — and it could disrupt the nation’s housing-finance system – MarketWatch
A fully privatized mortgage market will fundamentally change mortgage credit. The US is the only mortgage market in the world with a fixed rate for 30 years. It only works because most mortgages have no credit risk. Once you remove the govt guarantee you then have both credit risk and interest rate risk. Investors facing …
Waiting list for council homes in England ‘will double to 2 million’ | Homelessness | The Guardian
Another example where social policy in the UK is broken. https://amp-theguardian-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/amp.theguardian.com/society/2020/nov/14/waiting-list-for-council-homes-in-england-will-double-to-2-million