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LGBTQ+ Buyers, Renters Face Disproportionate Housing Challenges

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LGBTQ+ Buyers, Renters Face Disproportionate Housing Challenges. In previous Zillow research, the company found housing discrimination-protected LGBTQ+ home buyers can pay up to $127,000 more than the typical home market. Comparatively, only 17% of cisgender, heterosexual buyers typically purchase the same type of housing.

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More Women Are Leaving the Construction Industry With Reports of Sexism

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More Women Are Leaving the Construction Industry With Reports of Sexism. How workplace discrimination is turning away a major segment of trade employees. Low outreach for female recruitment could also have a negative impact on a growing labor shortage and on the construction industry as a whole. Women in Construction.

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“Once-in-a-Generation” Opportunity for Women in Construction: Infrastructure Investment & Jobs Act

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The White House states that it will drive the creation of union jobs and help grow the economy in a sustainable way that makes sure all people, including under-represented communities get ahead for decades to come. For women in construction, this IIJA is an excellent opportunity to make construction jobs more inclusive around the nation. .

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Invest In America Commends President Obama For Focus On Foreign Investment

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drop in employment, the commercial real estate market and the construction industry suffered the heaviest during the recession, and these sectors have been among the slowest to recover. House of Representatives and the U.S. real estate projects,” said Jeffrey D. DeBoer, President and CEO of The Real Estate Roundtable.

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Rethinking Housing Design in 2023 

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To meet the evolving needs of both buyers and renters in 2023 and beyond, we as an industry should take the current market slowdown as an opportunity to rethink housing design in response to emerging trends. 4 Current Housing Trends A growing shift toward a modular approach to provide housing more quickly and affordably.

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Green light for first women-only tower block

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Brook House in Acton, west London will be a 15-storey scheme providing 102 social rent affordable flats for single women. The scheme is supported by Women’s Pioneer Housing, who are only one of two such specialised housing associations in the country, and social housing giant L&Q. ”

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Promotion and relegation at Test level, a bigger role for the Lions and supporting the Pacific nations… SIR CLIVE WOODWARD’s 10-point plan to save rugby – and why Gus Pichot has the vision to implement it as he goes up against Bill Beaumont

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Two global annual tournaments — one in Europe, one in the Pacific — with promotion and relegation would ignite the game and bring full houses for every match. Is there any attempt at positive discrimination? Scotland have won the Six Nations wooden spoon four times but bad seasons mean nothing. . 2 – VOTE FOR DEMOCRACY.