Whether looking for affordable housing or staying same from climate disasters, housing in the United States can be difficult.
Existing home sales last year reached their highest levels since 2006. However, increasing numbers of climate disasters across the country have sparked concern about how safe homes are.
Potential buyers rarely wonder “what the flood plain is here, or do they look around and see this beautiful forest and say, ‘Oh, my God, it’s going to be on fire in two years?’” American Institute of Architects consultant David Collins said.
Last year was the worst fire season in U.S. history. In California, five of the state’s six-largest fires began within a two-month window. Overall, more than a dozen severe weather storms each dealt more than $1 billion in damages across the U.S. However, building homes that can withstand natural disasters are expensive and keep people, including the more than 500,000 thousand homeless counted in 2019, outside.
When it comes to costs, the Covid-19 pandemic caused a surge in housing costs and a rise in unemployment, leaving nearly 600,000 Americans unhoused in 2020. In 2019, New York City spent a record-breaking $3 billion to support its homeless population. California is also expected to break its record, allocating $4.8 billion to the same issue over the next two years.
Despite the rising budget, overall homelessness in the U.S. has improved by only 10% compared with 2007. It’s even worse for certain subgroups, such as individual homelessness, which dropped by only 1% in the same period. For decades, the U.S. has relied on a “housing first” approach to homelessness, where permanent housing is provided for homeless people without preconditions such as sobriety or employment.
Lastly, the affordable housing crisis in the United States continues to be a problem and it is only getting worse. And in places like San Francisco, where construction costs are some of the highest in the world, overcoming the housing shortage seems impossible. However, one solution is gaining traction that could dramatically reduce the cost and time to build new housing – factory-built apartments.
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00:00 Why The U.S. Builds Houses Wrong (March 2021)
13:57 Why The U.S. Can’t Solve Homelessness (January 2022)
29:09 Can Factory-Built Homes Help Solve The Housing Crisis? (February 2021)
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What’s Wrong With America’s Houses
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It is better to be homeless ( peace of mind and body ) than to slave away for destitute wages of slavery that never keep up with expenses of life let alone self actualization!
NO taxation without representation!
NO affordable housing left anywhere in all 60 major cities in America! Americans are becoming homeless, living in cars, living in forests, under bridges and other lonely places! 80% of jobs are not livable and therefore apartments should be $450/Month or less!
Anyone making under $25/Hour is not benefitting from the fake economy of gouged products and services! 60+ million Americans are living in abject poverty or homelessness 🏚🏚🏚
INFLATION:
Food: 20% to 50% ( not going down)
Electricity: 50% (not going down)
Heating Gas: 50% (not going down)
Car Gas: Stuck above $3.50/Gallon ( too expensive ); under $2.40 is needed
Healthcare: Not affordable since 2008. Priced out.
Wages: No livable wages since 1984. Every American should be at a base pay for any job as the new standard of $33/Hour and up to self actualization and health and financial security's. Most Americans make under $15/Hour which is abject poverty or worse.
Real Unemployment: 44%+ permanently and as high as 75% in many parts of the USA 🏚🏚🏚
80% of Americans have less than $5000 in their bank accounts because cost of living and inflation is criminally gouged! No ability to save up, invest nor buy assets to self actualize! Capitalists are greedy evil criminals stealing our buying power 🏚🏚🏚
I don't think it's wise to build a house out of wood. Such buildings will not be long-lasting and healthy for people. Probably because it is very cheap in terms of cost, they make it out of wood. They make it very cheap and sell it very expensive, so they have huge profit margins.
I am appalled by the status of the housing market as a landlord in Tampa. I, on the other hand, was unaffected by Ian's brutality. I have increased the rent on my residences and saved two million dollars for an early retirement at the age of 57, despite the fact that the stock market is not currently performing well for me. No matter what the Fed does, my major worry is that I regularly think about how to take advantage of the market.
Fires are only a problem if you develop on top of a desert
How do these people think that simply moving mental illness and addiction indoors, where these people can do as they please is going to solve the mental illness and or addiction. All does is hid the problem indoor until the meth lab in side sets the place on fire.😅
In the tropics homes are built strong made with concrete cement to withstand the very very strong typhoons, hurricanes, earthquakes and yes fire too in some cases. Why not in the U.S. ?! We know it's because it's economics$$ !! Example, builders will continue to build… it's job security for carpenters to build with wooden homes, builders use cheaper materials for construction, job security for workers, carpenters, electricians, masons, home depot stores etc. 🙄 Let's be truthful!
मेरे काल में देश और दुनिया को विदेशी आक्रमणों का भय नहीं रहा।लोग खुले किवाड़ सोते थे, चोरों का भय नहीं था।अपराध के लिए उनके पास क्षमा का कोई स्थान नहीं था?👍👍👍👍👍
Competing interest is corruption.
It's Been So rough for me trading on my own
Because I have had a lot of losses think
The real market is manipulated Please,
Can Anyone Help me Out Or Tell me What I'm
Doing Wrong?
And start supporting 3D printed, factory-built, modular housing, in mixed-use areas.
One of my housemates was a structural engineer in California. It’s incredibly difficult to pass all of the college classes to get that career from a good school like he did. And recently he quit that job because if was very thankless to repeatedly tell people how expensive their home plans are going to be for them if they wanted the home to remain safe. And he mostly worked with really rich people in multi-million dollar estates in Santa Barbra county who could usually afford to pay more. I can only imagine how frustrating it would be to try to develop safe building plans for starter homes which are meant to be more affordable to the average person.
theese idiots are what’s wrong with the housing market
As increasing climate chaos swings completely out of control, fire and flood resiliency is a temporary fix. We're now passing tipping points. These are events that cause climate chaos to get worse exponentially. Mega Corporations and the military are pushing life on Earth to extinction. We've only got one planet.
Today much of the new residential single unit free standing construction in America is of the cookie-cutter urban sprawl variety. This is driven by developers seeking a clear canvas and cheap land on which to build. Builders garner savings from mass production factory like building methods with sites that are in close proximity which reduces travel time for workers. More on the driving forces behind a proper lack of planning in the article below.
http://brucewilds.blogspot.com/2015/11/cookie-cutter-urban-sprawl.html
Why are mentally ill people homeless? Why are physically ill people homeless? IT IS A FAILED SOCIETY THAT DOES NOT HELP THESE PEOPLE SURVIVE !!! ADDRESS THESE PROBLEMS FIRST, THAN A SOCIETY WOUKD NOT HAVE A MULTITUDE OF HOMELESS.
Во многих странах мира, электрификация, а не электроэнергетика, до сих пор окупает себя пассивно, не имея ни технических и технологических выгодных преимуществ, ни частных потребительских выгодных преимуществ.
The only country in world history to end all homelessness was the Soviet Union.
Build dome homes like half a bowl out of concrete and steel. Attach various sizes. Fast, cheap, indestructible and cosmetically appealing.
Anyone been to Lake Tahoe in the winter? Nevada does controlled burns. California? No chance.
we need more people displaced by natural disasters so my equity can rise and there is a shortage. K ty bye, I live in the US andA
Its only cali so lol.
Under Covid rules, landlords were entirely screwed over and many left the market. Why should they rent to "low income" people ever after that mess? And… why should the taxpayer fund some new "right" to housing when the rest of us have to scrape together first and last month's rent, a deposit, and a deposit on all utilities, transportation etc etc? NOPE. How about you stay in a shelter, follow their arbitrary rules, prove you've been clean for six months, keep a job that will pay for an apartment going forward for at least 90 days, and THEN the taxpayer "loans" the deposit on a new apartment for you. Mess up and damage the place, and there are no do-overs. Do well and after a landlord check of the place when you exit, you can keep that money after five years as a graduate of the program, congratulations. And then, too, if you want to live in Malibu or San Francisco… maybe get a little realism and a job in Wichita.
That sounds like bull …government.spending on homeless…they are still homeless…they'd rather you spend it on their food and shelter! Ugh if I ever heard something that felt like a lie. I was homeless…government spending on me or fellow homeless people? Where? Lie
Bought my townhouser for $155,000 in 2011. Now?A house in my neighborhood just sold for $399.999.
😡😡 spend 3-4 billion dollars a year in hobos….WHILE IGNORING MINIMUM WAGE WOKERS THAT ACTUALLY contribute to society??
Housing first works Make that guy homeless
These ppl are idiots if they think homelessness is not directly connected to substance abuse. I know recovering addicts that lived on the streets for years. They will tell, the worse thing you can give an addict is money!
The suggestion to remove window on sides facing other homes would help, but only in some instance. In a firestorm, such as what we've seen in the western states, the benefit of window elimination would at best be marginal. Window elimination would also reduce many to 'shoeboxes', with only a tiny amount of much valued/needed, natural lighting. To see WHY I say it is only a marginal aid, look at the video (link below). Just watch 35 seconds of this 9 minute video, starting where I time stamped it. It shows the Tubbs fire, which destroyed 5,000 structures and killed 22 (including a close friend's father). Three things stand out #1) The SPEED at which the fire spread. ALL the homes on the block ignited within a couple minutes. #2) Unburned trees remain, yet the homes torched. This shows that the radiant heat of one home's flat sided wall radiated so much heat across to the next flat and mostly parallel surface of the adjacent home that the whole wall flashed, and did so without affecting a more complex shape like a tree #3) What's shown is an affluent neighborhood, where the homes are spaced considerably further apart than most urban homes. Some homes are spaced apart by over 50 feet. All the homes on the block are ablaze, yet many trees near them are NOT burning.
In particular, items #2 and #3 suggest that just eliminating windows, when most homes are more closely spaced than the ones shown here, would be insufficient at stopping the radiant heat from essentially 'frying' the adjacent home's wall to the point of igniting what is behind a fire resistant outermost layer (commonly 2x4s, plywood).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7Udu6hh-9U&t=91s
The wife of my friend's father survived and recounted how fast the fire approached, enveloped their entire cul de sac, and left her lying in the middle of the cul de sac (extensive 2nd degree burns) until the homes and entire cul de sac was reduced to embers.
Sprinklers would help. But if a firestorm ignites a bunch of homes in quick succession, the water line pressure would drop and render the system useless to the homes that were in the path. It seems the REAL solution to these firestorms is to SPACE HOMES FURTHER APART
Friends of mine bought a new house a year ago. Beautiful home but it's falling apart. The foundation is crumbling already. I suspect they used the wrong kind of sand to mix the cement. one room is falling away from the rest of the house. A smell in the wall, he broke through the dry wall and found stacks of Popeye's Chicken sacks with bones, containers for mashed potatoes and drink cups sealed up behind the drywall during construction. Insects and rat droppings around this area in a brand new home. The ceiling is cracking in a year, is it the crumbling foundation or are there other structural issues? He's hired an attorney as has his neighbors with similar complaints.
We neeed to stop and look and see that government creates homeless and all government can do is take from some and give to another. Then people see free stuff and migrage to the free stuff. Many of these people can be put to work on short day jobs. They need to earn their keep in ways that help their self esteem. Government housing just makes matters worse, next thing we have is a slum or drug ghetto.
We just got caught with out pants down just kicking the can down the road for decades until the pandemic came.
BRICKS AND CONCRETE HIGH ABOVE WATER-1 PIECE ROOFS NOTHING THAT CAN BECOME A PROJECTILE-FIRE RETARDANT-ENCASED ELECTRICS ETC-