affordable housing
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Silicon Valley Elites Show Off Renderings of Exclusive New City They Want to Build in the Bay Area
New renderings show that the tech billionaire-backed city from ‘California Forever’ would be a pseudo-Mediterranean vacation spot but with more solar panels.
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How San Francisco Plans To Use Self-Driving Cars To Fix Its Housing Crisis
For a minute, try to forget the hype you hear about self-driving cars and think about the single-occupant, human-driven vehicle like this: A very inefficient way to use expensive city land. Not only do extra-wide roads take up a lot of space, there’s far too much property allocated to parking — about 20 per cent…
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I Can’t Believe All The Features Mashed Into This Micro-Apartment
The phrase “micro-unit” conjures up all sorts of lifestyle tradeoffs, like Murphy beds, mini-fridges and toilets in the shower. This tasteful space has a bed that stays put, a full-sized kitchen and room for a bathtub, all in an area that’s a little under 30 square metres.
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How Building Expensive New Housing Actually Helps Create More Affordable Cities
Applying the term “housing crisis” to the fact that people increasingly cannot afford to live in many American cities makes it seem like a vast, unfixable problem. But the solution is actually easy: Build more housing. A lot more housing. As soon as possible.