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The AI boom is fueling a housing crisis in San Francisco as tech workers are lured to the city to take part in the AI gold rush.
Artificial Intelligence

The AI Boom Is Creating Housing Costs in the Bay Area That You’ll Think You Must Be Hallucinating

By Sharon Adarlo

Rently is a hip new SaaS company offering management tools to make life even easier for landlords looking to rent out their apartments.
Future Society

Trendy New Startup Makes You Pay to Tour Apartments When You’re Looking for Housing

By Joe Wilkins

Looking for a patsy, ex-New York governor and current NYC mayoral candidate Andrew Cuomo found one in his one-armed aide.
Artificial Intelligence

Called Out for AI Slop, Andrew Cuomo Blames One-Armed Man

By Noor Al-Sibai

Researchers have found that people who moved a lot in their childhood and early teen years are more likely to be depressed as adults.
Mental Health

If Your Family Moved a Lot as a Kid, We Have Bad News About Your Mental Health

By Noor Al-Sibai

Surveillance technology, including facial recognition software, reportedly has an outsized presence in public housing projects.
Future Society

Facial Recognition Used to Evict Single Mother for Taking Night Classes

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

NFTs aren't totally dead just yet. And in order to keep them alive, a growing number of web3 operators are turning towards a more familiar market: housing. 
NFTs

The Latest Idea to Make People Actually Buy NFTs: Throw in a House

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Rents across the country have skyrocketed thanks in part to an algorithm that hikes rental prices on behalf of landlords.
Artificial Intelligence

Rent Too Damn High? Blame YieldStar, a Secret Algorithm from Housing Hell

By Noor Al-Sibai

Twelve homes in a resettlement community for climate change survivors opened their doors to new owners this week in New Isle, Louisiana.
Climate Change

Louisiana Opens First Climate Change Resettlement Community

By Lonnie Lee Hood

WeWork cofounder Adam Neumann is back, with a property management crypto startup. The confusing part? Its crypto can't pay rent.
Cryptocurrency

WeWork Guy’s Apartment Rental Company Plans to Launch Crypto That Can’t Be Used to Pay Rent

By Noor Al-Sibai

After firing scores of employees over Zoom, the CEO of Better.com is in legal hot water for allegedly defrauding investors. 
Future Society

The CEO Who Fired 900 People Over Zoom Is in Big Legal Trouble

By Noor Al-Sibai

A Texas startup wants to build a community of 100 3D printed homes — which would make it the largest such community in the US.
Future Society

Texas Startup Building Largest 3D Printed Home Community in US

By Tony Ho Tran

Rancho Mirage, California will soon become home to the first neighborhood made entirely of 3D-printed houses in the United States.
3D Printing

An Entire 3D-Printed Neighborhood Is Springing Up in a California Desert

By Dan Robitzski

Some "podestrians," as they call themselves, are getting the logo of a local pod-housing network tattooed on their bodies.
Future Society

People Love Living in Pods So Much They’re Getting Neck Tattoos About It

By Victor Tangermann

Faced with a critical land shortage, the city of Hong Kong is planning to build one of the most ambitious artificial islands in the history of the world.
Future Society

Hong Kong Is Planning a $79 Billion Artificial Island

By Jon Christian

housing homeless new york
Future Society

Hexagonal Pods Attached to Buildings Could Help Solve New York’s Homeless Problem

By Kyree Leary

A Harvard Engineer Invented Stackable Homes
Future Society

A Harvard Engineer Invented Stackable Homes

By Chelsea Gohd