Citing a draft document from Germany’s Defense Ministry, local tabloid newspaper Bild reported that Germans are expected to build their own bomb shelters as the country’s national draft emergency defense plan has already assigned the construction roles to civilians. With only 579 functional bomb shelters in Germany, the government is counting on its citizens to convert their own homes... 

Satellite imagery analysis reveals a staggering reality in Gaza, where more than 70 percent of residential buildings lie in ruins or bear the scars of bombings, as reported by the Wall Street Journal. The devastation extends beyond homes; the World Bank notes that nearly 80 percent of Gaza’s health facilities have suffered destruction or damage, leaving most of the 36 hospitals in dire straits. Israeli... 

In the world of home improvement, investing wisely is a cardinal rule. The choices we make today have a ripple effect on our future, both in terms of comfort and finances. When it comes to the roof over our heads, one particular choice stands out as a beacon of economic wisdom: metal roofing. Beyond its undeniable aesthetic charm, metal roofing offers a treasure trove of cost-efficient benefits that... 

As Switzerland takes drastic measures to reduce its gas use this winter – including fines and up to three years in prison for citizens who violate new regulations, a viral poster circulating on Swiss social media telling citizens to rat out neighbors heating their homes above 19 C has raised eyebrows. “Does the neighbor heat the apartment to over 19 degrees? Please inform us,” reads the poster... 

The Fed has barely started raising interest rates but the air is already seeping out of the housing bubble. New single-family home sales plunged by 16.6% from March and were down 26.9% year on year. New home sales dropped to the lowest level since the lockdown in April 2020. New home sales are often viewed as a leading indicator of the state of the overall housing market. The unsold inventory of new... 

The UK has announced that it will pay Britons £350 every month if they take Ukrainian refugees in their homes and take care of them. This is actually something smart, cool and more countries should be doing this. Not only many refugees wouldn’t like to live in those typical government tents, but UK’s way its a win-win as the British civilians get some free cash while they also get to... 

Black Lives Matter protesters on Wednesday night marched through residential neighborhoods in Seattle and screamed at white “gentrifiers” to demand they hand over their property to black people. “Is your name Tucker or John, whichever one it is, give up your house!” a militant BLM protester shouted through a megaphone at a white person in their own home. “Give black people back their homes!” “You’re... 

The Green Party in Sweden has suggested confiscating the homes of citizens and giving them to migrants if the property is deemed to be too large or if the owner has more than one residence. Blogger Katerina Janouch reveals how the party wanted to introduce a new law which would allow “Municipalities to seize housing to give them refugees.” Under the proposal, authorities would be able to “evacuate... 

The New Zealand government has banned the sale of existing homes to foreign buyers, saying New Zealanders were sick of being “tenants in our own land”. Associate minister of finance David Parker said the ban would mean housing would become more affordable for locals, and supply would increase. “We think the market for New Zealand homes and farms should be set by New Zealand buyers, not overseas... 

Authorities in Hamburg, the second-largest city in Germany, have begun confiscating private dwellings to ease a housing shortage — one that has been acutely exacerbated by Chancellor Angela Merkel’s decision to allow more than two million migrants into the country in recent years. City officials have been seizing commercial properties and converting them into migrant shelters since late 2015,... 

A US newspaper has revealed that the FBI has been raiding the houses of anti-Wall Street protesters in Oregon and Washington in what the agency describes an “ongoing violent crime investigation.” The Oregonian newspaper reported that heavily-armed domestic terrorism units of the FBI have been raiding the homes of activists in Seattle and Olympia, Washington and Portland, Oregon over the last month. The... 

Police at a building where blogger Alexei Navalny lives. Moscow prosecutors have searched the homes of several Russian opposition figures. They are investigating the violence during previous protests. The searches came a day before a key opposition rally in the Russian capital. Officials of the Russian Investigative Committee have searched the homes of Aleksey Navalny, Sergey Udaltsov, Ilya Yashin... 

Millions of Americans may lose homes for debt. Millions of Americans are at risk of losing their homes due to mortgage debt. The finding is by a group of experts from the International Monetary Fund, haning prepared an analytical report on the prospects of the global economy. “About 2.5 million owners of apartments and homes in the U.S. have lost their homes. Other 1,500,000 have systematically... 

The devastating Queensland floods that have claimed at least nine lives in the past 24 hours and left 59 missing have hit the state’s capital Brisbane, where thousands of residents have been warned to evacuate their homes. There were fears that the extent of the flooding could exceed the levels of the 1974 flood, which killed 14 people and inundated more than 6,700 homes. The emergency escalated...