Housing news
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2025[edit | edit source]
Homes built with clay, grass, plastic and glass: How a Caribbean island is shying away from concrete, bbc.co.uk/future (Jan 04, 2025)
2024[edit | edit source]
- City Planning, Provincial Rulemaking Take a Snow Day, energymixweekender.substack.com (Dec 08, 2024) — Developers are consulted lavishly. Citizens get less than a week to respond, with city services and prime farmland hanging in the balance. What if cities started listening to the public? Lella Blumer
- Construction is the world’s biggest carbon emitter, yet Labour still refuses to tackle it, Simon Jenkins, theguardian.com (Nov 19, 2024)
- ‘It’s a big lever for change’: the radical contract protecting Hamburg’s green space, theguardian.com (Oct 24, 2024)
- Create ‘positive tipping points’ with climate mandates, governments urged, theguardian.com (Sep 23, 2024) — Comment: Bolder: whole of housing zero emissions by 2035 or sooner! including new build & (acknowledged & reduced) embodied emissions, plus similar for local areas so communities can gain democratic right to constrain their own emissions, wouldn't that be a really super tipping point? Philralph (talk) 15:06, 24 September 2024 (UTC)
- Three ingenious ways architects are designing buildings to stay cool in a heatwave without air conditioning, theconversation.com (Sep 04, 2024)
- ‘A roof over our people’s heads’: the Indigenous US tribe building hempcrete homes, theguardian.com (Apr 16, 2024)
- The Towns Outsmarting Airbnb, reasonstobecheerful.world (Apr 02, 2024)
- “Housing that is dignified, durable, beautiful and adaptable, and made available for all.” Dan Hill and Mariana Mazzucato dream big, Daily Alternative (Mar 16, 2024)
- This is how Latin America tries to turn its youth into young homeowners, globalvoices.org (Mar 01, 2024)
- ‘We don’t need air con’: how Burkina Faso builds schools that stay cool in 40C heat, theguardian.com (Feb 29, 2024)
- ‘It’s almost carbon-negative’: how hemp became a surprise building material, theguardian.com (Feb 15, 2024)
2022-2023[edit | edit source]
- A Look Inside The Community Rebuilds Model, By Kenny Fallon Jr., thelaststraw.org (Oct 30, 2023)
- Back to the stone age: the sustainable building material we’ve all been waiting for…, theguardian.com (Aug 06, 2023)
- How ancient 'skywells' are keeping Chinese homes cool, BBC Future (Jul 13, 2023)
- Catalonian housing co-op wins social innovation prize from European Commission, thenews.coop (Feb 08, 2023) — Sostre Cívic was praised for its alternative housing model which judges found 'fairer and more accessible, non-profit, non-speculative and transformative'
- Cohousing is empowering people to fight back against a global housing crisis, The Conversation (Nov 02, 2022)
- Wooden housing boom needed to boost climate goals, says new study – but is it possible?, The Conversation (Aug 30, 2022)
- The man turning mud into eco-friendly 'concrete', BBC News (May 28, 2022)
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