Seven places luring residents with cash, free homes amid coronavirus
Thomson Reuters Foundation Looking to move away from traffic and congestion and start your new working-from-home life in a roomier house in a leafy area? You might get paid to do so. As the coronavirus pandemic boosts remote working and interest in suburban living around the globe, some places are offering incentives for people to […]
Foreigners stage “positive invasion” of Sicily in one-euro home sale
RomeThomson Reuters Foundation Bargain hunters from Argentina to China swooped on a one-euro-auction and snapped up 16 abandoned Sicilian homes in a foreign buying frenzy that was heralded on Thursday as a positive invasion of a dying hilltop town. Selling homes for token sums has become a popular, last-ditch strategy for tumbledown towns in Italy’s […]
WOW!: CAN 3D PRINTERS PROVIDE CHEAP, SAFE HOMES FOR THE WORLD’S POOR?
ANASTASIA MOLONEY, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports on hopes that families in El Salvador’s slums could be the first to live in houses created on a 3D printer…