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“Born frees” were supposed to be the first generation of South Africans to access homeownership without restrictions. But new obstacles stand in the way.

The US president’s taste for gilded decor is often dismissed with comparisons to an ornate European style of the 18th century. But the real Rococo deserves better, writes Feargus O'Sullivan.

America has a hot garbage problem.

Massachusetts will shift responsibility for paying for brokers to the person who hired them — in most cases the landlord

Unusually hot weather is making it unbearable to travel on London's underground train network, with temperatures inside some tube carriages nearly 5C hotter than street level, according to data recorded by Bloomberg. Read more: bloom.bg/4nuNbwD 📷: Jose Sarmento Matos/Bloomberg

New York Port Authority is closed due a multi bus accident, New Jersey Transit says in a post on X

California's YIMBY victory.

Ron DeSantis sees Alligator Alcatraz as the first of multiple state-run immigrant detention centers. To build it, he tapped into the state's network of disaster-relief contractors — who have little experience building and running such facilities.

Thanks to the hard work by folks at the Deportation Data Project, Leon Yin & I were able to plug some numbers into this look at New York City's sanctuary status. Immigration arrests are up 11% in the NYC area since Donald Trump returned to the White House. That may sound like a big increase, but it's nothing compared to the jump in arrests in Miami (161%), L.A. (69%) and Chicago (57%) compared to the same period last year. Still, things feel really scary for folks in New York. A big part of the vibe shift, according to immigrants' rights groups, can be traced back to NYC Mayor Eric Adams and the claims by former federal prosecutors that he made a deal with the Trump administration to help enforce its immigration policies in exchange for getting his federal criminal case dismissed. Adams denies this; a New York State Supreme Court judge said there seemed to be a reasonable chance that a quid pro quo could be proven. And his administration is seeking to bring federal law enforcement officials, including ICE, back to Rikers Island, from whence they've been banished for more than 10 years. Underneath this turbulent public theater, however, New York's sanctuary policies haven't changed. The directions NYC lawyers are giving to employees and contractors about how to deal with ICE are the same ones given under former mayor Bill de Blasio. I'm also proud to have been able to get a line into this story quoting from the original executive order creating New York's sanctuary policy, issued by Ed Koch in 1989. His reasoning for making New York a safe place for undocumented immigrants is this: “It is to the disadvantage of all City residents if some who live in the City are uneducated, inadequately protected from crime, or untreated for illness." https://lnkd.in/eM4cxFZv

Trump's tactics to detain immigrants are laying bare the limitations of sanctuary cities like New York, where nearly 2,000 people have been arrested by ICE.