Housing Market

Shelter: Seven Survival Shelters; How to Build a Quinzee Snow Shelter; How to Build an Igloo, 5/27/8; Cody Lundin's sustainable home, 12/6/8; Straw Bale House made by Single Mom for $50,000, 11/14/9; Shipping Container As An Underground Shelter, 12/23/9; Concrete Canvas, 5/18/11; Eco Dome - Earth As Shelter; What is Superadobe?; Experiencing nature from your private Bubble, 7/15/11; Low-impact Hobbit home only cost US$4,650 to build, 10/5/11; Weekend Homesteaders, 10/25/11; Turtle Tuff Survival Shelters; DIY home for less than $3,500; Delta Shelter provides almost indestructible living space, 3/13/12; Do It Yourself Basement Waterproofing; Poor Carpenter Builds An Incredible Treehouse In The Wilds Of Canada, 6/1/12; Kelty AirPitch inflatable tents pitch in less than a minute, 8/15/12; Shipping Containers – A Retreat on the Cheap, 8/20/12; Transportable Light Weight Concrete Domes; Build a Dome; Chinese survival pods to defend against 'apocalypse', 12/14/12; Survival Spider Holes, 5/21/13; From Shard to shoebox: Renzo Piano does micro-housing, 6/15/13; Net zero energy homes make more power than they take, 7/24/13; Shigeru Ban: Emergency shelters made from paper, 8/15/13; Keep Your House in Tip-Top Shape: An Incredibly Handy Home Maintenance Checklist, 10/8/13; Hivehaus flat-packed honeycomb home could be the bee's knees, 12/4/13; Making My Home From a Shipping Container, 1/1/14; These Skinny Micro Housing Designs Would Let You Live Between Buildings, 1/14/14; An Architect Built This Stunning, 196-Square-Foot 'Tiny Home' In Idaho, 1/21/14; Tiny Houses for the Homeless: An Affordable Solution Catches On, 2/23/14; Bamboo Micro House proposed to shelter Hong Kong's homeless, 3/2/14; Sustainable home can be built in four days using only a screwdriver, 3/18/14; How to Prepare Your Home Prior to a Bug-Out, 3/25/14; Skit: An off-grid, cross-shaped, tiny house for one, 5/8/14; Couple builds tiny house for US$33k, releases plans, 5/13/14; Making a tiny portable home, 6/22/14; 20 Surprisingly Beautiful Tiny Homes Around The World, 8/5/14; How to Create a Safe Room in Your House or Apartment, 11/10/14; Take A Look Inside These $3 Million Luxury Condos Buried 174 Feet Underground, 11/18/14; Moving Into a Shipping Container, but Staying Put, 8/5/15; How to Build the Ultimate Survival Shelter, 8/7/15; Egg-shaped tiny house hits prototype stage, 8/17/15; Living in a steel box: are shipping containers really the future of housing?, 10/9/15; Liberal-run Austin, Texas experimenting with tiny apartments designed by professor who lived in a dumpster, 10/25/15; 15 Ancient House Designs That You Can Build Really Cheap (Potentially For Free), 11/1/14; This Pre-Fab Hobbit Home Is Eco-Friendly And Can Be Built In 3 Days, 12/4/15; 7 Things Every Homeowner Should Know the Location Of, 3/23/16; This Tiny Cardboard Home Takes Only 1 Day To Build & Lasts 100 Years, 8/9/16

HUD: HUD Wants to Make Living in a Tiny House or RV Illegal, 4/2/16

Building a House: Bureaucracy of Building a House, 9/5/14
Construction: Barn Plans & Out-Buildings; How to Build a Geodesic Dome out of Cardboard; STARPLATE CONNECTION; Retired Construction Worker Shows How To Move A Barn With a Lump of Wood and a Handful of Pebbles…Amazing, 7/15/14
Underground Homes: How to build your own underground home; Underground Houses; $50 and Up Underground House Book; Shipping Container As An Underground Shelter, 12/23/9; World’s First Everything-Proof Underground Luxury Community, 10/7/10; Keep Your House in Tip-Top Shape: An Incredibly Handy Home Maintenance Checklist, 10/8/13

Tree Houses: Why You Should Sell Everything Now And Live In A Tree, 9/24/11; This insane bamboo treehouse doesn't use any nails or screws, 8/12/16
Homesteading: Homesteader News
Car: How to Live in Your Car, 3/4/12

Castles: Secrets of Medieval Castles: Stairs are built in a clockwise fashion for a clever reason, 5/29/17

Homes: 7 Amazing Castles from Around the World, 10/15/10; Transforming house turns inside out for summer, has 8 configurations, 11/19/12; Out of the Box: 10 Amazing Underground Homes, 12/11/12; H2OME – Your house at the bottom of the ocean, 9/5/14; Luxury floating homes planned for The World in Dubai, 7/13/15; Why I Am Never Going to Own a Home Again, 8/14/15; World's first portable islands will let super-rich create eco-friendly getaways anywhere on Earth, 8/18/15; Dubai's newest luxury home on the water has an eye-watering price, 8/12/16; These Enchanting Japanese Cottages Will Make You Want To Retire Early, 10/17/16; Tiny Homes Banned in U.S. at Increasing Rate as Govt Criminalizes Sustainable Living, 11/6/16; These Pre-Fab Smartdome Homes Can Be Set Up Almost Anywhere, 11/20/16

Abandoned Property: There are 18.6 million vacant homes in the U.S., which is enough for every homeless person in America to have six.‘Sovereign citizen’ defies authorities and seizes ‘abandoned’ Ohio homes, 11/26/13

Renter Society: Real House Prices Fall To 2000 Levels: The Ownership Society Is Dead!, 2/22/11; Government-owned homes may get 'for rent' signs, 8/10/11; 10.8 Million Foreclosures Await: Fannie Mae Wants To Become Slumlord, 8/11/11; Take That, Tokyo! San Francisco Approves 220-Square-Foot ‘Micro-Apartments', 11/20/12; War on renters, 10/10/13; Challenging the 911 Landlord Law, 10/17/13; Meet Wall Street - Your New Landlord, 12/20/13; Your new landlord lives on Wall Street, 3/5/14; Cashing In On The Death Of The "American Dream": Rental Permits Soar Most Since 1990, 6/16/15; Rent is Too Damn High: San Fran Residents Pay $1,000/Mth To Live In Shipping Containers, 8/3/15; Rents rise to ‘crazy’ levels, 8/16/15; Huge Rent Hikes Coming; How Will It Affect Price Inflation?, 10/13/15; Who Can Afford The American Dream? “Rental Rates Have Reached Apocalyptic Levels”, 1/28/16

Housing Market: Home Value Estimator: Enter the property address then click "Get Value!"; Forrest Gump Explains Mortgage Backed Securities; Real Estate Downfall; Personal Letter from Satan to Paulson; 7 Reasons Why Housing Isn’t Bottoming Yet, 7/20/9; Real Numbers, 5/25/10; Housing Starts plummet in May, 6/16/10; 12 Very Ugly Charts On The State Of The Housing Market, 6/17/10; Coming U.S. Real Estate Crash, 6/24/10; House Prices Are Still Too High And They're Going To Tank, 6/29/10; Biggest Monthly Pending Home Sales Drop On Record, 7/1/10; A Decade of Declining Home Prices Ahead, 7/30/10; Record Commercial Real Estate Deterioration In June As CMBS Investors Pray For 50% Recoveries, 8/1/10; Government's New Genius Idea: The $1,000 Down Payment, 8/5/10; Bank lending in the CRE market collapsing; Homebuyer Demand All But a 'Standstill', 8/16/10; There's No Evidence Of A Housing Bottom, 8/18/10; Death of the 'McMansion': Era of Huge Homes Is Over, 8/19/10; Housing Slide in U.S. Threatens to Drag Economy Into Recession, 8/23/10; Can We Please Be Honest About Fannie And Freddie? They Now Exist To Make Houses More Expensive, 8/25/10; Where Are The Housing Bulls Now?, 8/25/10; Rosenberg Explains Why Not One New Home Priced Over $750,000 Sold In July, 8/26/10; Axing the Bankers Money Tree, 8/26/10; U.S. Home Prices Face 3-Year Drop as Inventory Surge Looms, 9/15/10; 70% Think It’s a Good Time to Buy a Home, 9/16/10; Home Prices To Fall Another 75%?, 9/19/10; 7-Million Housing Shadow Inventory Could Trigger A Price Avalanche, 9/20/10; Golden State, not so golden; Here's Why Housing Will Reach Bottom In 2014, Followed By A Decade Of Stagnation, 9/24/10; Here's Why House Prices Will Now Drop Another 20%, 10/5/10; Flawed Foreclosure Documents Thwart Home Sales, 10/7/10; American Housing Market Is Headed for Total Destruction, 10/13/10; Existing Home Sales – Lying Is a Time Honored Sales Tactic, 10/25/10; Home Equity as a Percentage of Household Net Worth, 11/2/10; Home Prices Continue To Plunge In October, 11/9/10; 15 Housing Markets That Will Get Crushed The Hardest By 2012, 11/19/10; Shadow Inventory Jumps More Than 10 Percent in One Year, Pushing Total Unsold Inventory to 6.3 Million Units, 11/22/10; FHFA Confirms That The Housing Double Dip Is Here, 11/24/10; Foreclosure scandal impact: Sales dry up, 11/29/10; Housing Problem In 3 Pictures, 11/29/10; Walk Away: The Rise and Fall of the Home-Ownership Myth, 12/2/10; 15 Charts You Must See Before Buying A House, 12/4/10; Dr. Doom Predicts Another $1 Trillion in Housing Losses, 12/6/10; U.S. Home Values to Drop by $1.7 Trillion This Year, Zillow Says, 12/9/10; $9,000,000,000,000 in total home value has crashed since June 2006, 12/9/10; Amazing Satellite Images Of The Ghost Cities Of China, 12/14/10; As Mortgage Rates Go Parabolic, Home Prices Will Soon Be Latest Shoe To Re-drop, 12/16/10; Owner’s Equity in Real Estate Down 55.7%, 12/16/10; About that 90% drop in home prices..., 12/23/10; Roubini: 'Housing Prices Can Only Move Down', 12/28/10; Home Prices Falling Faster in Biggest Cities, 12/28/10; Now House Prices Will Now Drop Another 20%, 12/29/10; If House Prices Keep Falling This Fast, The Economy Is Screwed, 12/29/10; Here's Why Home Prices Have To Decline At Least 20% And Probably More, 12/30/10; Story Of 2011 Will Be The Second US Housing Crash, 1/3/11; Amherst Securities: Investors Underestimating Severity of Housing Problem, 1/4/11; 'Saving' the Housing Market, 1/4/11; Housing bust creates new kind of declining city, 1/6/11; Housing Market Slips Into Depression Territory, 1/11/11; Unsealed Docs Show The Fed Was Fully Warned Of A Housing Crisis, 1/15/11; Eight States Running Out of Homebuyers, 1/18/11; House Prices Might Fall for Years, 1/29/11; Nearly 11% of US Houses Empty, 1/31/11; Coming Collapse Of Commercial Real Estate Is Already Here, 2/2/11; Housing Armageddon: 12 Facts Which Show That We Are in the Midst of the Worst Housing Collapse in U.S. History, 2/3/11; Frighteningly Obvious Truth that Most Deny – US Housing Continues Freefall & Is Nowhere Near The Bottom, 2/7/11; Negative Home Equity Surges to 27%, Weighing on Housing Recovery, 2/9/11; Administration Declares GSE Model "Dead", Increases Down Payment Requirements, 2/11/11; Turmoil In The Housing Market Makes A Recovery All But Impossible, 2/11/11; NAR: Obama Administration Wants To Make Us A Nation Of Renters, 2/11/11; Housing Crash Is Hitting Cities Once Thought to Be Stable, 2/14/11; Foreclosure Sales Rise Dramatically in Key States, 2/15/11; Obama and Geithner's Insidious Plan to Hand the Entire Housing Industry Over to the Banks, 2/17/11; Pending Home Sales Fell More Than Expected in January, 2/28/11; Sword Hanging Over the Housing Market, 3/10/11; Peter Schiff: Housing Market Will Fall For Many More Years, 3/17/11; Survey Shows Americans Upbeat About Owning Homes, 3/19/11; House Prices Will Drop Another 20%, 3/22/11; Comparing Housing Prices, Real vs Nominal (1890-2011), 3/24/11; Why U.S. Housing Market Optimists Are "Nuts", 3/24/11; Spring 2011 Guide of 30 Key Charts to See Before You Buy or Sell Your Home, 3/30/11; 10 US Housing Markets At Risk Of A Major Collapse, 4/14/11; Fed Aims at Mortgage Fraud, Shoots Housing Market in the Gut, 4/18/11; Americans Shun Cheapest Homes in 40 Years as Owning Loses Appeal, 4/19/11; Did The Realtors Screw You?, 4/19/11; March Survey: Almost half of housing market is now distressed properties, 4/25/11; U.S. Home Prices May Fall 11% This Year, Morgan Stanley Says, 4/25/11; Covert bailing out of the commercial real estate industry by the Federal Reserve - How the Fed bails out ritzy hotels and empty shopping malls on the back of taxpayer dollars; National Home Prices Double Dip, 5/5/11; Sell Your House YESTERDAY, 5/5/11; $6.5 Trillion Lost, One House at a Time, 5/10/11; Don’t Buy A House In 2011 Before You Read These 20 Wacky Statistics About The U.S. Real Estate Crisis, 5/10/11; Quadruple Dip: Housing Starts, Permits Drop, Miss Expectations; Houses Under Construction At New Record Low, 5/17/11; 20 Startling Facts About the US Housing Market, 5/19/11; Pending Home Sales Off 11.6% From Last Month, Down 26.8% From 2010, 5/27/11; 19 Cities Where Home Prices Just Won't Stop Falling, 6/1/11; 6 Reasons Housing Prices Aren't Rising, 6/7/11; US Housing Crisis Is Now Worse Than Great Depression, 6/14/11; Double Dipped Housing; Has Housing Bottomed? Here's How to Tell, 7/20/11; 19 Cities Where Housing Is Worse Than It Was Last Year, 7/26/11; Vacant Homes Will Drown Housing Recovery, 7/27/11; Another Real Estate Time Bomb: Unsellable Vacant Homes?, 8/12/11; Home Prices Decline 5.9% in Second Quarter, 8/24/11; Housing Market is Shrinking, 8/25/11; Five Rules to Remember When Dealing with Real Estate Agents, 8/27/11; Housing Market Outrage, 8/30/11; Obama's "Mickey Mouse" Plan to Save The Nations Housing Market, 8/31/11; Homeownership Rates by Selected Age Groups, 8/31/11; A View of the Long-Term Trends in the Housing Market, 9/8/11; Surge in All-Cash Buying Signals Demise of 'Normal' Housing Market, 9/19/11; Lower Lows in the Cat-Like Real Estate Market, 10/3/11; Housing prices in 20 U.S. cities drop more than forecast in August, 10/25/11; Ten things you need to know about buying or selling a home, 10/26/11; Housing market continues its freefall as 14 million Americans descend into negative equity, 11/11/11; Realtors: We Overcounted Home Sales for Five Years, 12/13/11; Massive Downward Revisions Imminent: National Association of Realtors Miscounted Millions of Home Sales over last 5 Years, 12/15/11; NAR Just Made The Mother Of All Data Revisions, 12/21/11; This Chart From Robert Shiller Will Terrify Anyone Who Owns A Home In America, 12/28/11; Fed Members Laughed As Housing Bubble Grew, 1/30/12; Homeownership rates fall to 66% as downturn nears a bottom, 2/1/12; Scariest Housing Market Chart Ever, 2/18/12; 10 Best Cities To Buy Bank-Owned Properties, 3/1/12; Suburban Home Prices Will Not Rebound In Our Lifetime, 3/27/12; Home prices fall to 2002 levels, 3/28/12; Something 'Crazy' Is Happening In The Southern California Housing Market, 4/8/12; Truth About The 'Housing Bottom': Home Prices Across The Northeast Are In Total Freefall, 4/16/12; Even After The Housing Crisis, You're Still Better Off Renting, 6/5/12; 5 Compelling Reasons To Flee The Market And Rent Instead, 6/13/12; There's Only One Reason to Own a Home Today, 7/11/12; Prepare For The Coming Housing Collapse: Part II, 9/6/12; Here's Why There's No Housing Recovery and Prices Will Collapse Another 20%, 9/19/12; QE3 – Pay Attention If You Are in the Real Estate Market, 9/20/12; 32 Percent Of Americans Would Have No Problem Walking Away From Underwater Homes, 10/4/12; Real Estate: Is the Bottom In, Or Is This A Head-Fake?, 12/10/12; Rise in Home Prices All an Illusion, 2/7/13; Robert Shiller Destroys The Idea Of Investing In A Home, 2/7/13; Wall Street betting billions on single-family homes in distressed markets, 4/21/13; Will The New Housing Bubble That Bernanke Is Creating End As Badly As The Last One Did?, 4/30/13; Housing Bubble Pop Alert: Colony Pulls IPO On "Market Conditions", Blue Mountain Rushes To Cash Out Of Own-To-Rent, 6/4/13; How Big Institutional Money Distorts Housing Prices, 6/4/13; Want a better deal on buying a house? Find a physically unattractive real estate agent, 6/14/13; Soaring Mortgage Rates Are Going To Make It Far More Difficult To Buy Or Sell A House, 6/27/13; What’s Really Priced into the Housing Market’s Gains, 7/24/13; American Dream Slipping as Homeownership at 18-Year Low, 7/30/13; Why are Your Children Buying Houses for Ben Bernanke?, 8/6/13; This Land Is Your Land: When Desperate Cities Give Away Homes, 8/15/13; Prepare For Tough Times If Your Job Has Anything To Do With Real Estate Or Mortgages, 9/11/13; Look Out Below: Home Sales Plunge: “Biggest Drop in 40 Months”, 10/30/13; What Real Estate Bubble? Oh, You Mean the One That's Bigger Than the 2007 Bubble?, 10/31/13; Half of Every Mortgaged Home in America Still Completely Underwater, 1/16/14; You Can Buy A House For One Dollar Or Less In Economically Depressed Cities All Over America, 2/2/14; Housing Bubble 2.0: Here’s Why, 3/17/14; Stunning History Of "All Cash" Home Purchases In The US, 3/21/14; Home Sales Plunge Most In 3 Years, Drop 8th Months In A Row, 3/27/14; Existing Home Sales Drop To Lowest Since July 2012; All-Cash Buyers, Investors Are 50% Of March Transactions, 4/22/14; Why the housing recovery is over, in four charts, 7/18/14; At $195 million, Beverly Hills estate sets U.S. high-price mark, 11/6/14; Peter Schiff: Fed-Propped Oil Prices Tumble. Stocks and Real Estate Next, 1/12/15; True Cost of the Homeownership Obsession, 1/17/15; Next Victim Of Crashing Oil Prices: Housing, 1/18/15; American "Nightmare" Shocker: The Real US Homeownership Rate Has Never Been Lower, 3/9/15; Neo-feudalism on the rise in America as home ownership dies with the middle class, 3/12/15; "The Fallout Ratio" Is Flashing Red - The Chart That Realtors Don't Want You To See, 7/1/15; Almost Half of Homes in New York and D.C. Are Now Losing Value, 9/3/15; U.S. Home Prices Are 14% Overvalued According To Bank of America, 3/30/16; Homeownership Rate in the U.S. Drops to Lowest Since 1965, 7/28/16

Communal Living: With Housing Costs Sky-High, the Commune Makes a Comeback, 9/21/16