In 1972, the US had more metro lines per capita than Canada, France, or Germany. Now, it's below all of them. It only has 50% of Canada's per-capita metros.
In 1990, 4 of the world’s 14 longest metros were in the US. Today, not a single US network sits on that list.
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Ships are manipulating their GPS signals to misdirect guided weapons. These vessels are showing up on shipping data platforms as clustered on top of one another, noted TankerTrackers.com, a research agency.
Read @nassosstylianou.bsky.social and Malcolm Moore's report
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Part of the issue is a lack of growth. A recent study showed that cohorts who experience more GDP growth in their lifetimes are more likely to trust the government and have positive perceptions of their living standards. academic.oup.com/qje/advance-... In Britain, such voters are dying out
Solution to Soho problem appears to be to pedestrianise all the surrounding areas.
Last week we published a research note by @geographyjim.bsky.social and colleagues on housing for disabled Londoners.
Worth a read - it covers what we know about the ability of London's housing stock to meet disabled Londoners' needs:
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The report doesn't make policy recommendations but here is one thought to leave you with: homes for sale or rent are now legally required to have an Energy Performance Certificate, so is there a case for requiring them to also describe their 'Accessibility Performance' for disabled people?
The report also benefitted from very helpful discussions with @inclusionlondon.bsky.social and other members of the London Housing Panel. Our quantitative findings are complemented by Inclusion London's previous qualitative research www.inclusionlondon.org.uk/services-and...
This has been a long thread but there's a lot more in the full report so please take a look! It was also a team effort - huge thanks to my co-author Rohan Ranaweera, and to GLA colleagues for finalising and publishing the report while I am on parental leave.
Finally, the report is quite focused on issues facing disabled people with mobility-related impairments. That reflects the fact that our main data sources tend to focus on physical accessibility and wheelchair use. So we need more research into housing issues facing people with other impairments.
When households with disabled members do move, it is less likely to have been for 'positive' reasons (such as wanting a bigger place) & more likely to have been for negative reasons like their previous home being unsuitable or in poor condition, or not being able to afford their housing costs
Another interesting finding is that while households with disabled members are just as likely as other households in London to say they expect to move house, they are less likely to have actually moved recently.
Accessibility is unsurprisingly a big issue for Londoners who use a wheelchair at home, with 66% saying they find it difficult to manoeuvre their wheelchair around their home. And 42% of wheelchair users in London said they didn't have a place set aside at home to keep their wheelchair.
The improvement in basic 'visitability' is good news, but is far from the whole story. A fully accessible home requires additional features (e.g. adequate lift provision and accessible kitchens and bathrooms) which are still much rarer. We estimate that <1% of homes in London have all these features
Looking back over decades of construction (using pooled English Housing Survey data for the whole country), there was a dramatic improvement in the 'visitability' of new homes around the turn of the millennium, due to changes in building regulations.
Only 17% of homes in London meet this basic 'visitability' standard, but in the rest of England the figure is even lower at 12%. These figures have increased over the last decade, almost entirely due to new construction rather than improvements to existing homes.
The other key factor is accessibility: how easy or hard is it for disabled people to get into, move around in and use their homes? The details matter here: for example, one basic measure of whether homes are 'visitable' relies on four criteria to do with getting through doors and using the loo.
Households with disabled members are more likely to say that they are in arrears on their housing payments or that keeping up with payments is a struggle. Again, these indicators of affordability problems are worse in London than in the rest of England.
Affordability is worse for disabled households in both social and private renting. Some of this is due to having lower average incomes - and the gap would be larger still if households with disabled members weren't more likely to be receiving Housing Benefit.
One key factor is affordability: households with a disabled person spend a higher share of their income on housing costs, with a particularly large gap in London. This comparison also does not capture any additional costs disabled people face relating to adaptations, equipment or energy bills.
And it's probably not the quality of the home as measured by the Decent Homes Standard. Because disabled people are more likely to live in social housing and in newly built housing, slightly fewer of them live in homes that fail to meet the standard.
What's driving disabled Londoners' higher rates of dissatisfaction with their homes? It's probably not overcrowding, as households where nobody has a disability are more likely to be overcrowded (partly due to differences in age profiles and household sizes).
The higher rate of dissatisfaction in social housing is important because disabled people, particularly those in London, are more likely to live in social housing than non-disabled people.
Breaking this down by tenure, disabled social housing tenants have the highest rates of housing dissatisfaction - but the gap between disabled and non-disabled households is highest in the private rented sector.
Disabled people are more unhappy with their housing. Both in London and the rest of England, they are more than twice as likely as other households to be dissatisfied with their homes.
New research! An analysis of the housing circumstances of disabled Londoners, which finds that most of London's homes are either financially or physically inaccessible to disabled Londoners - long thread of findings follows ... data.london.gov.uk/housing/rese...
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One in six small multi-family buildings in the West Village is now a huge single-family home, part of a mansion wave sweeping over NYC
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