Housing access: As US investors buy up rental homes, cities and tenants push back
CAREY L BIRON, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports on growing alarm among tenants and city officials across the United States as private equity firms snapping up growing tracts of rental properties…
Young Portuguese defer dreams as housing crisis bites
Lisbon Reuters When Maria Lopes moved to Lisbon from the northern Portuguese city of Tondela, her goals were straightforward: study, find a job, get a place of her own. But a decade on, she still lives in a tiny, rented room – one of tens of thousands of young Portuguese hit by a housing crisis […]
Postcards: US renters fall foul of algorithms in search for a home
CAREY L BIRON, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports on how automated screening programs are under scrutiny amid broader concerns about the potential of algorithms to lock in bias and perpetuate inequality…
Unaffordable rental housing may be “new normal” in the United States
Washington DC, USThomson Reuters Foundation A growing number of Americans cannot afford to pay their rent as rental property prices hit a record high, researchers said on Friday, amid an outcry over rising evictions and homelessness. The number of US households living in rentals also surged to 43.7 million in 2018 – up 21 per […]
WHEN THE NUMBERS DON’T ADD UP: NEW YORK RENTS IN THE SAHARA? LIVING IN AFRICA’S MOST EXPENSIVE CITY
NELLIE PEYTON, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports on economic contrasts in the Saharan nation of Chad…
Airbnb vows to tackle sex trafficking in rental homes
Thomson Reuters Foundation Short-term home rental company Airbnb said on Monday it would invest in new technology to crack down on modern slavery amid concerns that traffickers are turning its properties into “pop-up brothels” to sexually exploit vulnerable women and girls. Airbnb exclusively told the Thomson Reuters Foundation that it has teamed up with anti-trafficking […]