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Debt pile looming large over Chinese households (theedgemarkets.com)
by Patrick on 26 Apr 2018  2 comments, latest an hour ago
http://www.theedgemarkets.com/ On the back of a boom in property prices, household borrowing has been climbing for ten years straight, at a pace that rivals any such run-up in major economies....
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University degrees get consistently less valuable, especially compared to high-paying manual trade jobs (npr.org)
by Patrick on 26 Apr 2018  11 comments, latest 2 hours ago
https://www.npr.org/sections/e While a shortage of workers is pushing wages higher in the skilled trades, the financial return from a bachelor's degree is softening, even as the price — and the...
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California ecology groups helped to kill the most eco-friendly housing bill ever proposed (slate.com)
by Patrick on 26 Apr 2018  1 comment, latest 2 hours ago
No interest group was more exposed by the saga of SB 827 than California’s environmental movement. Except for Malthusian tree-huggers who actively seek to reduce the state’s population growth—“California is...
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We need more housing (leginfo.legislature.ca.gov)
by Patrick on 26 Apr 2018  5 comments, latest 6 hours ago
From a reader:I have a question for you in regards to real estate. I have this friend who is a total bull when it comes to real estate (he's done...
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Canadian realtor wants alimony reduced because housing market is plummeting (cbc.ca)
by Patrick on 26 Apr 2018  Posted 6 hours ago
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ The court agreed that the skyward trajectory that has marked the local real estate market for years appears to have ended."I accept that the respondent has reason to be...
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Expensive cities simply need MUCH MORE housing (vox.com)
by Patrick on 26 Apr 2018  Posted 6 hours ago
https://www.vox.com/2018/4/20/ There’s simply no good alternative to increasing the quantity of dwellings available in the expensive parts of expensive metropolitan areas. Whether that’s done purely by re-legalizing market-rate construction, by...
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about patrick.net
by Patrick on 9 Feb 2015  236 comments, latest 7 hours ago
Please read the moderation policy before commenting.Then read the original articles that made this site famous:https://patrick.net/pos https://patrick.net/post/12827 https://patrick.net/post/12827 If you hate this site, please allow me to start your own...
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The great exodus out of America’s blue cities (thehill.com)
by Patrick on 25 Apr 2018  18 comments, latest a day ago
http://thehill.com/opinion/fin With between up to 50 percent of their paycheck going to a combination of federal, local and city taxes, not including other consumer taxes baked into every aspect of...
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San Francisco to hire needle cleanup team (sfgate.com)
by Patrick on 24 Apr 2018  11 comments, latest a day ago
https://www.sfgate.com/news/ar The mayor of San Francisco says he's hiring 10 workers whose sole responsibility will be to clean up needles littering the streets.San Francisco Mayor Mark Farrell said Monday the...
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BARF (Bay Area Renters Federation) organizes to stop NIMBYs (mobile.nytimes.com)
by Patrick on 24 Apr 2018  5 comments, latest a day ago
https://mobile.nytimes.com/201 San Francisco does not have enough places to live. Sonja Trauss, a local activist, thinks the city should tackle this problem by building more housing.This may not sound like...
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Impact Of The New 2018 Tax Law On Real Estate Owners (aspenvalues.com)
by Patrick on 7 Jan 2018  31 comments, latest 2 days ago
http://www.aspenvalues.com/Blo As a result of doubling the standard deduction to $12,000 for single filers and $24,000 for married filing jointly, according to Moody’s Analytics, as many as 38 million Americans...
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CA housing shortage is not an unintended policy outcome (carlaef.org)
by Patrick on 24 Apr 2018  3 comments, latest 2 days ago
https://www.carlaef.org/ The housing shortage is not an unintended policy outcome.California’s housing shortage is strangling its residents and businesses. Every type of person and business is affected by this crisis.Our shortage...
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7 reasons stocks are better than real estate (marketwatch.com)
by Patrick on 24 Apr 2018  2 comments, latest 2 days ago
You’ve heard this before: Stocks, over time, outperform real estate.There are many schools of thought on this but one common statistic that gets tossed around shows equities over the past...
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CA housing costs “crowding out” personal consumption, cash going to landlords and lenders instead of retail (chicoer.com)
by Patrick on 24 Apr 2018  3 comments, latest 2 days ago
http://www.chicoer.com/article Californians could be spending at least $50 billion more than they do dining out, going to the movies or shopping. But high housing costs are “crowding out” personal consumption,...
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Buying becoming an increasingly worse deal relative to renting (themaven.net)
by Patrick on 24 Apr 2018  Posted 2 days ago
https://www.themaven.net/misht As buying a house gets more expensive relative to renting the equivalent property, the instability of the whole system increase. And buying has consistently become a much worse deal...
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A 2:15 Alarm, 2 Trains and a Bus Get Her to San Francisco Work by 7am (mobile.nytimes.com)
by Patrick on 23 Apr 2018  14 comments, latest 2 days ago
https://mobile.nytimes.com/201 Sheila James starts her Monday, and the workweek, at 2:15 a.m. This might be normal for a baker or a morning radio host, but Ms. James is a standard...
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One San Francisco lawmaker wants more affordable housing. Cue the fury from NIMBY leftists. (theamericanconservative.com)
by Patrick on 23 Apr 2018  Posted 3 days ago
http://www.theamericanconserva California State Senator Scott Wiener, a Democrat representing San Francisco, is an avowed progressive who has come up with a startling new doctrine to advance his leftist cause—the law...
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The Scientific Importance of Free Speech (quillette.com)
by Patrick on 22 Apr 2018  9 comments, latest 3 days ago
http://quillette.com/2018/04/1 Today, there are many reasons to be concerned over the state of free speech, from the growing chill on university campuses to the increased policing of art forms such...
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San Francisco rents are lower than 2.5 years ago
by Patrick on 19 Apr 2018  9 comments, latest 5 days ago
Why is the 7% to 9% decline in SF rents never in the news?
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Six Housing Markets At Risk Of Another Correction (forbes.com)
by Patrick on 17 Apr 2018  20 comments, latest 6 days ago
https://www.forbes.com/sites/p The soaring housing markets of the United States, Sweden, Canada, Norway, Australia, and the United Kingdom are at risk of another correction that could turn into a crash in...
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