#housing (27 links)
- Loco Home - Tenement case study on Vimeo vimeo.com
Making homes more energy efficient through insulation and air tightness can give superior comfort levels while also cutting carbon and bills. However, traditional solid-walled buildings present particular challenges. Lisa Pasquale will show how superior comfort can be achieved on a modest budget with appropriate insulation materials and careful draught-proofing.
- Everything you think you know about homelessness is wrong noahpinion.substack.com
- The housing theory of everything - Works in Progress worksinprogress.co
Western housing shortages do not just prevent many from ever affording their own home. They also drive inequality, climate change, low productivity growth, obesity, and even falling fertility rates.
- My $3500 Tiny House, Explained mrmoneymustache.com
- Locoblades Mortgage Spreadsheet locostfireblade.co.uk
<blockquote> I remember when a friend of mine moved to Paris in the 90s to pursue his dream of becoming an artist. He came back to England, disillusioned, five years later, calling the city "a museum" – mummified, stagnant, a victim of its own past glories, bought up by rich outsiders who'd out-priced the creative vibe that drew them there in the first place. The locals, wistful and resigned, referred to their city as "The Sleeping Beauty", looking on enviously at how London was ablaze with the best art, the best music, the best nightlife, the best creativity of any stripe, while they were left with only fine wine and memories, as Uncle Monty might have put it. Is London headed the same way as The Sleeping Beauty – an exquisite corpse, too dolled up and expensive for the creativity it's still trading on to flourish, or even survive? </blockquote>
- Freelancer mortgage application checklist: everything you need to provide freelanceadvisor.co.uk
- London’s Great Exodus nytimes.com
<blockquote>The property market is no longer about people making a long-term investment in owning their shelter, but a place for the world’s richest people to park their money at an annualized rate of return of around 10 percent. It has made my adopted hometown a no-go area for increasing numbers of the middle class.</blockquote>
The NTS has a wide portfolio of properties which are leased for residential, commercial and agricultural purposes. The properties are mostly of historical and/or architectural interest and we are looking for tenants who, like us, are committed to maintaining Scotland’s built heritage through a sensitive approach to building conservation, taking into account the special character and location of the buildings.
- National Trust | Land & country | Renting nationaltrust.org.uk
The National Trust owns more than 4,000 houses and cottages that are let for people to live in as their home. The types of property vary considerably, from small terraced cottages or flats converted from farm buildings, to modest period homes, some of which may be open to the public.
- Hidden London | Kingsbury hidden-london.com
Because Kingsbury is not a highly desirable area, most of Trobridge’s enchanting homes are not in the condition they deserve to be. After the war, Wembley council built a major housing estate, destroying most of Kingsbury’s historic buildings in the process.
- Guardian Unlimited Money | Cash clinic | Getting a foot on that property ladder money.guardian.co.uk
There are plenty of schemes around now for first-time buyers - including some that allow parents to help their offspring.
- Guardian Unlimited Money | Cash clinic | What first-time buyers are really being sold money.guardian.co.uk
This week the government pressed home its message that it wanted to assist would-be property buyers. Rupert Jones looks at the plans in detail and asks how many will be helped
- Guardian Unlimited Money | Cash clinic | First-time buyers money.guardian.co.uk
- Islington: Growth: Highbury | British History Online british-history.ac.uk
- Islington: Growth: Newington Green and Kingsland | British History Online british-history.ac.uk