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Croatian millennials can't afford to buy homes. The solution — build on top of their parents' place.
Many Croatian millennials are priced out of cities like Dubrovnik. Their parents have come up with …
Joshua Zitser
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A Hawaii judge ordered the demolition of a house after a California woman bought a vacant plot, only to discover the building on her land
The construction company built the house on the wrong plot after incorrectly identifying it using t…
Grace Dean,Jordan Pandy
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I made $100,000 selling my backyard. Now a developer will use it to build more homes California so desperately needs.
Jeremy Cullifer felt like he never used his backyard. So he split his lot and sold it to a develope…
Jordan Pandy
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Elon Musk's giant 'X' sign is going to cost his landlord fees for building without a permit
Elon Musk recently had huge "X" logo put on the roof of the social media company's headquarters, pr…
Natalie Musumeci,Jyoti Mann
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Canada's First Nations are building the densest neighborhood in the country by reclaiming their ancestral land and defying NIMBYs
The massive housing and other economic development projects underway in Canada could be inspiration…
Eliza Relman
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A Bill Gates company is about to start building a nuclear power plant in Wyoming
TerraPower CEO Chris Levesque told The Financial Times it plans to start work on a site in Wyoming …
George Glover
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Don't need to go big to go home: Australia is turning to sustainable 'tiny houses' to fix their housing crisis!
Tiny houses are becoming an increasingly popular choice for the urban resident. Often fueled by a d…
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The city of Malibu is taking a family to the state supreme court to stop them from building a tiny home in their backyard for their elderly parent
Jason and Liz Riddick have been trying to build a small home in their backyard in West Malibu for L…
Eliza Relman
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It took an Austin developer 4 years to build 4 small homes that he made no money on as the city struggles to bridge the gap between tiny apartments and pricy houses
Restrictions on medium-density housing in Austin are keeping prices high, as there's not much in be…
Eliza Relman
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It's hard to use printers to build houses. This startup says it's found a solution — by creating a 3D printed home starter kit.
It can be hard to use 3D printers to build houses. This startup says its new starter kit will help …
Brittany Chang
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These states will pay you to build a tiny home in your backyard
California, Vermont, and New York will compensate you for building a tiny home in your backyard thr…
Kelsey Neubauer
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The home-construction boom sputtered out in April as prices surged higher
Housing starts slid 9.5% in April, terrible news for a housing market millions short of supply. Soa…
Ben Winck
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The US wants to build a different kind of nuclear reactor from a decades-old concept that could power ships and other off-the-grid locations
Most nuclear reactors use water as a coolant. Molten-salt reactors use salts with higher boiling po…
Jenny McGrath
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San Francisco is moving forward with its tallest-ever apartment building as California's new laws to fight the housing crisis start to pay off
San Francisco has struggled to meet its state-mandated home building requirements, in part because …
Eliza Relman
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It's about to get easier for homeowners in Denver to build tiny homes in their backyards
New local legislation aims to address the 70,000-unit housing shortage in the Denver metro area by …
Kelsey Neubauer
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Three Californians got $40,000 to build tiny homes in their backyards. They share how it's made their lives better and easier.
The families told Insider it helped them increase their property value, keep their adult children i…
Kelsey Neubauer
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I got a $20,000 grant to build a tiny home on my property. It was expensive to start, but I feel secure in my old age now.
Jean Lowell, 75, needed an accessible home for herself, and an affordable place for her daughter in…
Jordan Pandy
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NYC rolls out plan to convert empty office buildings into 20,000 homes as remote working persists
NYC Mayor Eric Adams announced an initiative to convert zombie office buildings into homes in a bid…
Sawdah Bhaimiya
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NYC and its suburbs won't build new housing, so New Yorkers are flooding into Jersey City and driving up prices
Jersey City is far outpacing New York City and the wider region in housing construction, attracting…
Eliza Relman,Noah Sheidlower
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The 10 US cities where it's hardest to build affordable housing
A new database created by the Eviction Lab at Princeton University ranks metro areas by how restric…