housing

cohousing | Google Groups

Network of friends meeting at ecotopia to discuss cohousing projects

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Variant issue 37 | The Tyranny of Rent

As Shelter argue: we wouldn’t accept these price rises with anything else, so why accept them in housing? Eliot M. Trettter’s article ‘The Cultures of Capitalism: Glasgow and the Monopoly of Culture’ (Antipode: 2009) goes some way to answering how we got to this abject position.

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Haiti races to house post-quake homeless before the rainy season / The Christian Science Monitor - CSMonitor.com

The Haiti government needs 40,000 dwellings for 200,000 people currently homeless in flood- or mudslide-prone areas or in the most congested tent cities. Can it do that by the time the rainy season starts in early April?

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“Homeless Shelter” by Paul Elkins by CubeMe

the “Homeless Shelter” by designer Paul Elkins is a mobile shelter intended to fulfill the housing needs of the fast growing homeless society. Featuring a simple, lightweight (225 pounds) and watertight structure, the portable shelter not only provides refuge to the homeless at night but it can also be used to display and vend products during the day, so the homeless people could earn their livelihood.

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