#video on "backstugas", #Sweden’s dugout #housing, of which 50,000 were recorded in the 01885 census. Walls typically timber or stone. Overlapping birchbark sheets over planks waterproofed the roof, held down by sod. Dwellers were “backstugasittare”, who owned no land, the poorest of the rural poor. Mostly stock photos with an AI slop voiceover. The Laga Skifte land reform confiscated the village common land they were built on, and industrialization provided employment.
on 02026-04-04#housing in #Austin has been getting cheaper
on 02026-03-18Pew Charitable Trust: “How States and Cities Decimated Americans’ Lowest-Cost #Housing Option: The intertwined history of single-room occupancy and #homelessness in the U.S.” #USA #politics #history #economics #roommates #SROs #toread
on 02025-10-02“Perhaps the simplest method of creating low-cost shared housing is to allow unrelated individuals to share a house in the same way that relatives are allowed to share a house. (...) Iowa, Oregon, and Colorado all passed bipartisan legislation to strike down local codes that prohibit house-sharing (in 2017, 2021, and 2024, respectively).” #USA #politics #economics #housing #roommates #SROs
on 02025-10-02#USA #politics #California #housing #zoning apocalypse, profiling HN user Sasha Zbrozek. #Housing-Accountability-Act
on 02023-03-09#USA #politics #California #housing #zoning apocalypse: the "Housing Accountability Act" (HAA), passed in 01990, enables the Housing and Community Development (HCD) (??) to suspend cities' zoning laws if they don't meet the Regional Housing Needs Allocation (RHNA), which for the most part they don't, so tomorrow (Feb. 2) many cities get their laws thus suspended, called the "builder’s remedy". This has just happened in Santa Monica: “Santa Monica met 50% of their dramatically increased 2023 - 2031 housing requirements, including a 50% increase in the amount of low income housing approved over the previous 8 years — without a cent of public subsidy — in just one week. This also consists of several high-rise buildings taller than anything allowed in Santa Monica’s zoning code or city housing.” In the #SFBA only SF, Emeryville, Redwood City, Alameda City, and maybe Oakland will retain their zoning laws.
on 02023-02-01#artificial-scarcity of #housing in #USA
on 02022-05-21