Meet the pro-housing agitators who are fighting to bring down home prices — and winning

Tech Insider : Economy, Politics
A large house being surrounded by smaller homes
YIMBYs want to solve America's housing crisis by making it easier to build homes — and they're starting to notch key wins in big cities.

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Inside the fight to build more housing and bring down home prices

Loneliness is a design flaw

Tech Insider : Economy
Amid a midnight blue background, bright red and orange lonely faces wander among shuttered buildings and structures
Researchers, developers, the US surgeon general, and elected officials alike are beginning to form a new kind of adage: If you build it, they will come together.

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Gen Z is giving up on college

Tech Insider : Economy
Gen-z stepping over a college graduation cap.
In the wake of the pandemic and economic uncertainty, Gen Z is questioning whether college is worth it.

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Forget the Deep State. Trump is at war with the whole state

Tech Insider : Politics
Trump in front of the Capitol and Supreme Court.
Trump's attacks have shifted to the surface state — the state itself. He's going after prosecutors, judges, grand juries, and state officials.

Chelsea Jia Feng/Insider

As Hawaii mourns its dead, 'disaster vultures' are swooping in to make a quick buck

Tech Insider : Economy, Politics
A house on fire being circled by vultures while money falls from the sky
Disaster vultures are investors who take advantage of people who lost their homes to natural disasters in order to turn a profit.

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As Hawaii mourns its dead, investors are swooping in to make a quick buck

It's not just you — no one is posting on social media anymore

Tech Insider
A white text bubble set against a brown background chomps a row of apps that are being threatened by groupchats from right to left--Be Real, Instagram and TikTok.
As people have run into the consequences of constant sharing, social media has become less social — and users are shifting to messaging apps and group chats.

Arantza Pena Popo

China is doing everything it can to conceal the true extent of its economic turmoil

Tech Insider : Economy, Politics
A chart with two white arrows as the xy axis shows a a yellow arrow whose gradual decline peels away at China's flag and unveils a concerned Xi Jiping
Chinese President Xi Jinping and the Chinese government are making key economic data disappear — that should be a warning sign for the rest of the world.

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China's economy is turning into a big black blob.

A new study makes it official: Women are always the wrong age for employers

Tech Insider : Economy
Women of different ages pop in and out of holes in a whack-a-mole scenario. A big turquoise mallet comes and hits some of the women on the head.
Women in every age bracket reported facing workplace age discrimination.

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The looming crisis that's going to crush homeowners from coast to coast

Tech Insider : Economy, Politics
A comic strip of a house inside of a burning house unbothered
As the risk of wildfires and storms grows, owning a home is getting riskier — and it's showing up in the insurance market.

Tyler Le/Insider

Cinda Larimer was delivering newspapers on a cool November morning in Paradise, California, when she noticed something softly float down from the sky: ash.

Wall Street is declaring victory too early — the US is still headed for a recession

Tech Insider : Economy, Politics
A Bull's eye with a downward red arrow and flames reflecting from it
Wall Street and top economists are declaring an "all clear" on the US economy — but some experts warn that a recession is still on the way.

Tyler Le/Insider

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