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Some Good News? More Rentals Are Now Vacant Nationwide

Dwell

And though in some postindustrial cities like Chicago and St. percent, tenant advocates have found that these rates are exacerbated by landlords withholding potentially more than 60,000 rent-stabilized units in 2021, according to The City. percent of professionally managed units were vacant at the start of 2024, up from 2.5

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A Timeline of Sonja Morgan’s Many, Many Attempts to Sell Her New York City Townhouse

Dwell

Back in November at BravoCon, the ultimate fan conference for all things Bravo reality television, former Real Housewives of New York City star Sonja Morgan shared an update on a piece of property that has become famous in its own right: her longtime Upper East Side townhouse. The newlyweds paid $9.1 She lists the home for $8.25 million.

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"The people of Los Angeles waited patiently for half a decade to make use of a useless site"

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This billion-dollar tomb to foreign real-estate speculation in the western corner of downtown Los Angeles (DTLA), laid hollow since 2019, was revived early this year by graffiti artists and paragliders that made it their night-time playground. The people of Los Angeles waited patiently for half a decade to make use of a useless site.

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Foster + Partners designs "largest all-electric tower" for JPMorgan Chase in Manhattan

Deezen

The skyscraper for the finance company at 270 Park Avenue will be "New York City's largest all-electric tower with net-zero operational emissions", according to Foster + Partners. "[It] Read: Seven super-skinny skyscrapers changing New York City's skyline. The tower is part of New York City's Midtown East rezoning plan.

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Social housing means "I can breathe again" say residents

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Photo by Jim Stephenson However, in recent years, following a series of reforms to financing and borrowing rules plus targeted funding from London mayor Sadiq Khan, councils in the UK capital have launched a mini-renaissance in house-building. In 2022/2023, they started a combined 11,000 homes.

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Developer holds Baltimore City hostage - can he be forced to develop?

Community Architect Daily

A lot that sits in the downtown of a major city in a strategic position? There is nobody in this City, not at the Mayor's office, not in the Baltimore Development Agency, not in Planning, Housing or the Downtown Partnership who can pick up the phone and force Howard Brown to move off his tush. Neither the City nor the developer budged.

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Introducing the Meta City

Brandon Donnelly

During the pandemic, there was a lot of erroneous talk about the death of cities. The Meta City combines physical and virtual agglomeration, in seeming defiance of the laws of physics, making it possible to occupy more than one space at the same time. Cities have always responded to and been a product of new mobility technologies.

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