Moving house in a pandemic: The move isn’t the hardest part, the packing is
Moving into a new home doesn’t have to be stressful if you get help. What comes before and after that is tough enough.
The plan, passed with an 8-1 vote, will distribute $400,000 of a $10 million fund generated by marijuana tax revenue, to up to 16 families to use toward housing needs.
Inflation is already creeping into some corners of the world
Prices have risen for commodities and in industries for reasons directly tied to the disruptions of COVID-19, the policy response or the surge in demand that comes with hopes of recovery.
Australia shows the world what post-virus recovery may look like
Success in suppressing COVID-19 — outside isolated flare-ups — has sparked a snap back in household and business sentiment.
Boisterous children and noisy neighbors put on the map in Japan
A new website is pledging to help house hunters avoid neighborhoods inhabited by "stupid parents who let their children play on roads and parking lots.”
Nagoya’s central district is seeing more empty stores and offices as the COVID-19 pandemic has led to an increase in teleworking and almost no inbound tourists.
Japan's attempts to promote home ownership leave renters in cold
People are moving out of Tokyo into the suburbs and countryside in response to COVID-19.
Record 96,000 Japan households receive rent support amid pandemic
The program originally targeted displaced workers, but the government relaxed conditions in April to cover people whose incomes had fallen.
Some of Hong Kong's poor finally feel at home in prefabricated 'modules'
When Lau Kai Fai, his wife and teenage son moved into a new Hong Kong flat last month, he thought the 290 square feet (27 square meters) of space in his "module home" felt like "winning the lottery." Among the first Hong Kongers to move ...
Struggling apartment rental firm Leopalace21 Corp. said Monday its debts exceeded assets by ¥11.8 billion as of the end of June. The negative net worth reflected stagnant apartment occupancy rates apparently stemming from Leopalace21's shoddy construction scandal, which came to light in 2018. The company ...
Struggling apartment rental firm Leopalace21 Corp. saw its debts exceed assets by about ¥10 billion at the end of June, it was learned Saturday. The negative net worth is due to falling occupancy rates for its apartments, reflecting a scandal over shoddy construction that came ...
Rules on buying farmland eased in rural Hiroshima amid depopulation
Smaller plots are being made available in a bid to attract younger people from the cities to the countryside.
