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UN-Habitat. Annual Report 2024: Adequate Housing for All.
Published: 2 June 2025Dataset period: 2024Accessed: 16 September 2026Type: governmentScope: WorldUN-Habitat's 2024 annual report on adequate housing, including the estimate that 2.8 billion people lack access to adequate housing and that about 96,000 new housing units would need to be built each day to meet needs by 2030.
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UN-Habitat. UN-Habitat sounds the alarm on the global housing crisis in its 2024 Annual Report.
Published: 2 June 2025Accessed: 16 September 2026Type: governmentScope: WorldOfficial press release accompanying the 2024 Annual Report, restating the 2.8 billion inadequate-housing estimate and the 96,000 units-per-day figure.
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United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division. World Population Prospects 2024: Summary of Results.
Published: 1 July 2024Dataset period: 2024Accessed: 16 September 2026Type: datasetScope: WorldOfficial UN population estimates and projections. Reports a world population of 8.2 billion in 2024 and a projected peak of around 10.3 billion in the mid-2080s.
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World Bank. Urban population (% of total population) (SP.URB.TOTL.IN.ZS).
Dataset period: 2024Accessed: 16 September 2026Type: datasetScope: WorldWorld Bank World Development Indicator for urban population share, compiled from United Nations Population Division World Urbanization Prospects. World figure for 2024 reported as 57.7%.
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OECD. Affordable housing.
Accessed: 16 September 2026Type: researchScope: OECD countriesOECD overview of housing affordability. States that real house prices have increased by over 40% over the past decade on average across the OECD, and that one in three low-income tenant households spend over 40% of disposable income on rent.
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OECD. HM1.2 House prices.
Dataset period: through early 2025 where availableAccessed: 16 September 2026Type: datasetScope: OECD countriesOECD Affordable Housing Database indicator on house prices and price-to-income ratios. The price-to-income ratio is an index with 2015 = 100, not a multiple of annual income.
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OECD. Housing prices indicators.
Accessed: 16 September 2026Type: datasetScope: OECD countriesOECD statistical indicators for nominal and real house prices, rent prices, price-to-rent, and price-to-income. Price-to-income is nominal house prices divided by nominal disposable income per head, indexed to 2015 = 100.
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OECD. Tackling the affordability gap through increased supply of affordable and social housing.
Published: 1 July 2026Accessed: 16 September 2026Type: researchScope: OECD/EU2026 OECD report on the affordability gap, supply constraints, construction costs, land-use policy, and the role of affordable and social rental housing.
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UN-Habitat. Open-ended Working Group on Adequate Housing information paper.
Published: 1 November 2024Accessed: 16 September 2026Type: governmentScope: WorldUN-Habitat paper stating that between 1.6 billion and 3 billion people globally lack adequate housing, and citing Institute of Global Homelessness estimates of at least 330 million people experiencing absolute homelessness.
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Government of the United Kingdom. Full steam ahead to fast-track more homes near stations.
Published: 17 August 2026Accessed: 16 September 2026Type: governmentScope: EnglandUK government announcement of National Planning Policy Framework changes creating a default 'yes' for homes within walking distance of well-connected stations.
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HM Land Registry. UK House Price Index for July 2026.
Published: 16 September 2026Dataset period: July 2026Accessed: 16 September 2026Type: datasetScope: United KingdomOfficial UK HPI: average UK house price £273,000 in July 2026, up 1.4% year on year.
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The Guardian. Only slim chance government will meet target of building 1.5m homes, minister says.
Published: 13 September 2026Accessed: 16 September 2026Type: journalismScope: United KingdomReporting that Angela Rayner said there was only a slim chance the UK government would meet its 1.5 million homes target.
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Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation. Housing starts and construction data for August 2026.
Published: 16 September 2026Dataset period: August 2026Accessed: 16 September 2026Type: datasetScope: CanadaCMHC six-month trend in housing starts of 244,149 units in August 2026, down 1.3% from July. Year-to-date starts in centres of 10,000+ were 149,542, down 4% from 2025.
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Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation. Slowing home construction threatens recent affordability gains.
Published: 1 January 2026Dataset period: 2026Accessed: 16 September 2026Type: researchScope: CanadaCMHC estimates Canada needs 417,000 to 469,000 housing starts a year to restore affordability to pre-pandemic levels by 2036.
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Australian Treasury. Homes for Australia: A National Plan.
Published: 1 June 2026Accessed: 16 September 2026Type: governmentScope: AustraliaAustralian government plan restating the National Housing Accord target of 1.2 million new well-located homes over five years to June 2029.
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The New York Times. Bankrupt Wiz Chain to Be Bought by Cablevision in Surprise Deal.
Published: 28 January 1998Accessed: 16 September 2026Type: journalismScope: United StatesContemporary reporting that Cablevision agreed to buy Nobody Beats The Wiz out of bankruptcy for about $100 million. The chain had filed for bankruptcy protection the previous month.
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The New York Times. Metro Business; Wiz Purchase Is Approved.
Published: 5 February 1998Accessed: 16 September 2026Type: journalismScope: United StatesReports bankruptcy court approval of Cablevision's purchase, described as $95 million for 36 stores, with a workforce of about 1,900 remaining.
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U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Cablevision Systems Corporation filing describing the Wiz asset purchase.
Published: 1 February 1998Accessed: 16 September 2026Type: primary documentScope: United StatesSEC filing stating Cablevision Electronics agreed to acquire assets associated with about 40 Nobody Beats The Wiz stores after The Wiz filed for bankruptcy on 16 December 1997. Estimated purchase price about $95 million.
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Wikipedia. The Wiz (store).
Accessed: 16 September 2026Type: organizationScope: United StatesSecondary encyclopedia entry on Nobody Beats The Wiz, identifying Stephen Jemal and brothers Douglas, Lawrence, and Marvin as founders and dating the chain to 1977.
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Stephen S. Jemal. Stephen Jemal — official site.
Accessed: 16 September 2026Type: organizationScope: United StatesPrimary personal site for Stephen S. Jemal's biographical narrative, Nobody Beats The Wiz legacy figures, and JemRock/BUILT description.
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Stephen S. Jemal. Biography — A Brooklyn entrepreneur.
Accessed: 16 September 2026Type: organizationScope: United StatesBiographical page stating the Cablevision sale in 1998, JemRock leadership, and that he works with sons Norman, Solomon, Richard, and James.
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JemRock Organization LLC. JemRock Organization — BUILT platform.
Accessed: 16 September 2026Type: organizationScope: WorldJemRock's description of BUILT, an AI-powered, robotics-driven housing manufacturing system, and the company's reading of the global housing deficit.
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Stephen Jemal. Stephen Jemal — biographical site.
Accessed: 16 September 2026Type: organizationScope: United StatesBiographical site covering family background, Pace University attendance, The Wiz, SSJ Development, PASHA, and JemRock.
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