The Housing Act will allow municipalities to force homeowners to sell their homes ONLY to people with a lower to middle income if the value of the home is less than €355,000. People who own cheaper homes will not be able to benefit from market value while wealthy people can continue to benefit from appreciation.
Overall, foreign buyers bought $59 billion worth of US homes,. Canadians bought $5.5 billion in US houses, Indians bought $3.6 billion, Mexicans $2.9 billion, and Brazilians $1.6 billion,. Liz Wheeler points out that America's policy of selling land to foreign nationals is outdated and leaves our country vulnerable.
From asking the elderly to downsize to banning second homes, five potential solutions to the UK’s lack of affordable housing
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Nursing homes and animal rescues have a lot in common, when you think about it. Both can be lonely, isolating places that lack the warmth and familiarity of loved ones and home. So it makes perfect sense that the Pima Animal Care Center (PACC) in Tucson, Arizona, decided to team up with Catalina Springs Memory Care to save homeless felines and enrich the lives of senior citizens. [1]
What began as a bid to fill a spare room in Berlin has spiralled into an international template for refugee integration, benefiting around 565 people to dateThe post Spare room initiative helps house refugees appeared first on Positive News.
