Housing crisis articles
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Harming the housing market
After all, the rules are quite clear, that 25 per cent of all but the smallest housing projects must be affordable, so the bid by a developer to simply pay £600,000 instead of keeping ten of a 42-unit block on Henderson Place below normal market prices was pushing it. But with construction costs alone now around £280,000 a unit, there is not much which can be classed as “affordable” and conscious of the housing shortage, officers accepted the argument that the development was not viable with an...
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Stanford’s housing disaster
"Stanford is charging students and their families exorbitantly more for objectively worse living conditions," writes Joyce Chen '25.
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Salisbury house fire under investigation
SALISBURY, Md. – The Office of the State Fire Marshall is investigating a single-family home fire. Officials say the blaze broke out on Pratt Road in Salisbury at 6:20 P.M. Hebron Volunteer Fire Company responded to the scene after a neighbor discovered the fire. The origin of the fire took place on the rear deck and spread throughout the home. One