My best friend nearly froze to death last winter on the streets here in Ottawa and spent several days in ICU. Thankfully, he is now housed. We also came across the frozen body of a homeless person once, in a separate incident a few years earlier.

Shelters won't accept people after certain hours, and getting locked out overnight is life threatening in winter.

Preparing the homeless for winter can't be optional.

#Ottawa #Canada #Homelessness #Winter #Health #Housing

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/is-ottawa-prepared-to-keep-homeless-people-out-of-the-cold-this-winter-9.7026365

My best friend nearly froze to death last winter on the streets here in Ottawa and spent several days in ICU. Thankfully, he is now housed. We also came across the frozen body of a homeless person once, in a separate incident a few years earlier.

Shelters won't accept people after certain hours, and getting locked out overnight is life threatening in winter.

Preparing the homeless for winter can't be optional.

#Ottawa #Canada #Homelessness #Winter #Health #Housing

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/is-ottawa-prepared-to-keep-homeless-people-out-of-the-cold-this-winter-9.7026365

Does Spain's housing crisis offer any help in thinking about how the UK might remove its dysfunctional hosing sector?

Luckily for observers, right now Madrid & Barcelona are adopting very different approaches (the former doubling down on a market solution, the latter pushing for more social housing) and as such offer potentially more evidence on how we might start to step back from the UK's housing crisis.

#housing #Spain #UK #inequality

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/dec/22/barcelona-madrid-different-ideas-tackling-spain-housing-crisis

Does Spain's housing crisis offer any help in thinking about how the UK might remove its dysfunctional hosing sector?

Luckily for observers, right now Madrid & Barcelona are adopting very different approaches (the former doubling down on a market solution, the latter pushing for more social housing) and as such offer potentially more evidence on how we might start to step back from the UK's housing crisis.

#housing #Spain #UK #inequality

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/dec/22/barcelona-madrid-different-ideas-tackling-spain-housing-crisis

"Kirill Ilin's construction company Amcrete constructed the concrete walls of their ground-breaking new four-bedroom prototype 'layer by layer by layer' right on its Waiuku site.

He says houses made with concrete poured by a computer-controlled 3D printer are energy-efficient, quick to construct, and, because of their durability and recyclability, also sustainable."

https://www.rnz.co.nz/life/lifestyle/home/nz-s-first-onsite-3d-printed-home

Minor edit: Fixed quote formatting.

#housing #construction #3DPrinting #Amcrete