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Government and institutional decisions about housing supply, affordability, subsidy and eligibility rules.
Seoul will let owners in seven low-rise districts covering 253,874 square meters rebuild with up to 1.2 times the ordinance floor area. On a lot of about 165 square meters in a Class 2 area, the top score adds 66 square meters, about 40% of the lot's size.
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Bloomberg Philanthropies will fund up to 30 cities with $450,000 to $750,000 each to copy housing fixes from San Diego, Austin and Atlanta. Vox describes the bet as one on capacity: cities have workable ideas and lack the know-how to carry them out.
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Finance and Economy, Land and Infrastructure and SMEs all change hands inside a ten-post announcement. The opposition has already named the Justice nominee as the fight that will set the hearing calendar.
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Mayor Oh Se-hoon put Seoul's five-year average at 35 newly designated redevelopment zones a year against 17 for the previous decade, and he is asking the land ministry for a fifth more floor area on private sites.
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A Democratic Party panel has finished reviewing the June 3 local elections and put housing policy beside the candidate and the campaign in explaining Seoul. Officials are still weighing whether to publish it.
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Detroit logged 20,370 eviction filings in 2025, and the SECURE Study's lead researcher estimates that informal removals double the real total. The eviction-health studies with the cleanest designs read court records.
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Portland State and OHSU-PSU asked 29 people to lay out their routes through homeless services, building on an earlier survey of 541 in which 98% said they wanted permanent housing. The interviews name the bottlenecks and leave them uncounted.
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