-- Canada doesn’t have enough skilled tradespeople to build its way out of its current housing shortage, threatening long-term damage to the country’s social fabric, according to a top executive at one of the world’s biggest real estate firms. Housing is becoming the central issue ahead of Canada’s next general election, currently expected in 2025, with a lack of dwellings …
NEW YORK — On the 31st floor of what was once a towering office building in downtown Manhattan, construction workers lay down steel bracing for what will soon anchor a host of residential amenities: a catering station, lounge, fire pit and gas grills. “We’re taking a vacant building and pouring life not only into this building, but this entire neighborhood,” …
