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Faced with looming condo safety reforms, Florida frets a new real estate 'crisis'

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Post- Champlain Towers South tragedy condo building crackdowns are coming and now Florida could be facing its biggest real estate “crisis” in decades, NBC reports. As NBC says, these are the “last bastions of relatively affordable housing along Florida’s coastline.“

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Future Firm's Hem House has all the makings of an award winner at half the price

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The design team worked with real estate developer Jacob Root to create the project with the hopes of diversifying the housing stock available to those interested in the area where new residential construction costs usually begin at $600,000.

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The Intersection of Sustainability and Affordability: In Conversation with Holcim Award Winner Jonathan Diamond

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The Gold Prize for North America was awarded to Partisans Architects and Well-Grounded Real Estate with their high-tech, low-cost modular housing solution for urban living in Toronto. Read more »

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From Industrial Heritage to Affordable Housing: The Story Behind DADA Distrikt in Brno, Czech Republic

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Image © Kubicek studio In response to the Czech Republic's soaring real estate prices, architecture firm KOGAA has transformed a former storage facility in Brno into DADA Distrikt , an affordable and diverse housing development. DADA Distrikt Residential Complex / KOGAA.

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Chris Pratt and Katherine Schwarzenegger demolish Craig Ellwood's 1950 Zimmerman House, raising ire online

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View this post on Instagram A post shared by Robb Report Real Estate (@robbreportrealestate)

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McMansions are making LA’s housing crisis a lot worse

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It is mansionization, the demolition of older, smaller, less expensive houses by real estate speculators who quickly replace them with spec McMansions: boxy, shoddily built houses that max out the permitted building envelope.

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Construction tech start-up sends AI-powered "micro-factories" to the US to build affordable housing

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for the first time in a move to bring automated and affordable house building to North America. Related on Archinect: Where Are All The Affordable Housing Startups? British construction tech start-up Automated Architecture (AUAR) is sending two of its pop-up, robotic micro-factories to the U.S.