A drop in gas prices helped tame inflation in December 2022. But grocery prices and housing costs continued to rise.
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Soaring power bills add to people’s worries about keeping their homes cool, especially as their health can suffer if they don’t. Fortunately, there are effective and affordable ways to beat the heat.
It’s impossible to escape exposure to microplastics and a new study confirms they’re in household dust around the world. But the health risks appear surprisingly low, and vacuuming makes a difference.
Affordable housing has become a middle-class problem, and Ontario’s latest housing report reflects an approach that continues to marginalize those with the greatest need.
California and other states plan to build more homes in an effort to fix America’s affordable housing problem. But that’s not the main reason housing remains unaffordable for millions of people.
We need more research and research capacity that’s better suited to current housing challenges. We must inform housing providers and policy-makers to provide solutions and evaluate those solutions.
Understanding the experiences of van dwellers is important not just for those looking to cut their ties to rents and mortgages, but also for community planners and employers.
How many of us have recently wished we could partition parts of our home, even to have a small second house? Being able to do this on existing blocks would help meet the many needs of families today.
Poverty and inequality affect the likelihood of your home overheating during heatwaves.
Larger homes with fewer occupants have a bigger energy and heating demand.
Tens of thousands of New Zealanders don’t have secure or adequate accommodation – so how can they safely self-isolate in NZ’s lockdown? But there are solutions – and here’s where to start.
This 1,000-year-old institution is not the solution to ageing Britain – here’s why.
As more people of color move to the suburbs, they might not find the full range of opportunities that white European ethnic groups did for most of the previous century.
The Earned Income Tax Credit was established in 1975 to reduce payroll taxes and help with rising prices for low-income families. Today, it could help poor families with housing.
Smart home technology promises to make our lives easier, but how much control do we want this tech to have over our lives? And do we really trust it?
Many homes are already smart – but they’re about to get much smarter.
Windows help those who can’t get out understand and participate in the world around them.
According to experts, ladybirds are no more dangerous than they were before.
More than 750,000 additional specialist homes will be required by 2035, in England alone, to deal with the shortfall.
The law says that newly built houses should have a six-star energy rating, to help residents afford their heating and cooling bills. But some builders seem to be findings ways around this requirement.
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Assistant Teaching Professor of Accounting, Gustavson School of Business, University of Victoria
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Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, McMaster University
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Chief Environmental Scientist, EPA Victoria; Honorary Professor, School of Natural Sciences, Macquarie University
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Associate Professor in Construction and Environmental Performance, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Housing Economics and Director, UK Collaborative Centre for Housing Evidence, University of Glasgow
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Queensland University of Technology
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Professor of Future Construction, The University of Edinburgh
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Senior Lecturer in Industrial Design, UNSW Sydney
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Research Fellow at Australian Centre for Culture, Environment, Society and Space, University of Wollongong
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Professor of Environmental Geography, University of Sheffield
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Social Marketing Professor, School of Advertising, Marketing and Public Relations, Queensland University of Technology
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Vice Provost for Inclusive Excellence and Professor of Architecture, University at Buffalo
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Professor of Geography, University of Wollongong
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Professor of Construction and Environmental Assessment, The University of Melbourne
