Archive for April 2025

The UK Government has announced new grant funding of £2billion as part of their long-term plans to build 1.5million new homes to help tackle the housing crisis.

Then came the rupture of the Great Recession, when hundreds of thousands of homes in the city’s metro area entered foreclosure between 2009 and 2012. In the aftermath, private-equity vultures descended on the carcass of Atlanta’s single-family housing market, ultimately hiking rents, imposing fees, and ramping up evictions. Since 2010, median rent in the city has increased by 76 percent, while Atlanta’s low-income housing stock has plummeted. Wages have flatlined for the lowest earners, who are now crammed into Atlanta’s most desolate neighborhoods.

Imagine you’re a child in a classroom, and your teacher tells everyone to form groups for a project. You sit and wait, watching as other kids pair up and wondering if anyone will pick you. This fear of rejection — familiar to many children and adults — can significantly impact how kids behave in their peer groups, according to new research from the University of Georgia.

Things have changed. Ted Gioia describes modern students as checked-out, phone-addicted zombies. Troy Jollimore writes, “I once believed my students and I were in this together, engaged in a shared intellectual pursuit. That faith has been obliterated over the past few semesters.” Faculty have seen a stunning level of disconnection. Above: Oxford undergraduates on a late night drinking spree, 1824.

The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that all women worldwide have experienced some form of domestic violence in their lifetime. In the United States, 3 in 10 women (29 percent) and 1 in 10 men (10 percent) report enduring rape, physical violence, and/or stalking by a partner, with significant effects on their wellbeing.