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To afford rent, they moved in with nuns. Now, the D.C. home is closing : NPR

To afford rent, they moved in with nuns. Now, the D.C. home is closing : NPR

Published by Sam Flores

Former residents, current residents and friends of Anne Montgomery House begin a traditional Greek dance at the farewell celebration in Washington, D.C. on July 31, 2026. The community house, run by Society of the Sacred Heart, is closing after a decade. Charlotte Kesl for NPR hide caption toggle caption Charlotte Kesl for NPR Sister Diane Roche sits on the front porch of Anne Montgomery House, smiling as she thinks back to opening the home a decade ago. The house, located in Northeast Washington, D.C., has given young women an affordable place to live while they studied, completed fellowships or launched careers in one of the nation’s most expensive cities. By nightfall, it will close its doors for the last time. “I’m 76 years old and running a house like this takes a lot of energy,” Roche said. “Something inside me just said this is it.” Sister Diane Roche, 76, pictured on the front porch of Anne Montgomery House said she’ll miss some of the daily rituals she shared with the home’s younger residents. “They keep …

This Art Project Slows Down Citi Bikes to Make NYC’s Rent Crisis Feel Real

This Art Project Slows Down Citi Bikes to Make NYC’s Rent Crisis Feel Real

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Justin Blinder lost his job two weeks before the Covid-19 pandemic hit in 2020. To pay his rent, he turned to delivery services, riding his bicycle across New York City to deliver food. As he went, he noticed the disparities in where the food items went. Which order of Nomé sushi went where and how much people tipped. “The city started to feel much more economically and psychologically disparate,” Blinder tells WIRED. “It really changed so much on a block-by-block level. These inequalities and demographic differences were happening in such close proximity.” That experience has morphed into an art-project gadget called Ground Truth that Blinder hopes will raise awareness about the housing affordability crisis in New York City and beyond by making a Citi Bike—one of the ever-present ebike rental options across the city—harder to ride through places where it’s harder to live. Blinder, a Brooklyn artist and contractor at Meta, received a $10,000 grant for the project from a Brooklyn arts organization called Idle Hands. A Ground Truth device attached to an ebike. Photograph: …

The Road to the Rent Freeze | Tara Raghuveer

The Road to the Rent Freeze | Tara Raghuveer

Published by Jenni Sidey

On the evening of June 25, minutes after New York City’s Rent Guidelines Board voted to freeze the rent for a million rent-stabilized apartments across the five boroughs, I caught up with a tenant I know named Josie Wells. Standing outside the auditorium in East Harlem where the vote had just occurred, we spoke about the implications of the freeze for her own apartment, which she rented from the real-estate group Pinnacle until the company filed for bankruptcy and put over five thousand of its units—including her own—up for auction. After Pinnacle filed, Josie helped build the Union of Pinnacle Tenants, which has continued to organize even as a new landlord has taken over some properties. “I don’t know if it’s gonna change my life,” she told me, a paper kazoo in one hand and a slice of pizza in another. “My rent is so high, there’s utilities, food prices,” she went on. “So, yeah, it’s huge, it’s huge, it’s huge…and it’s just a breather.” After weeks of speaking with tenants in rent-stabilized units across …

‘We quit our day jobs to live on a canal boat and now save £1,200 a month on rent, bills and food’

‘We quit our day jobs to live on a canal boat and now save £1,200 a month on rent, bills and food’

Published by Daniella Wilson

Stay ahead of the curve with our weekly guide to the latest trends, fashion, relationships and more Stay ahead of the curve with our weekly guide to the latest trends, fashion, relationships and more Stay ahead of the curve with our weekly guide to the latest trends, fashion, relationships and more A couple from Bolton who ditched their day jobs to live on a canal boat say they have halved their living costs and are “addicted” to life on the waterways. Daniel Blyth, 32, and his wife Charlotte, 35, bought a small motorboat to “test the waters” in 2015 before purchasing a £10,000 three-bedroom narrowboat on Facebook Marketplace. In June 2026, after months of renovations and selling almost all of their belongings, they moved aboard and reduced their monthly living costs from around £2,000 to just £800. Inspired by boating content creators, former handyman Daniel, who first “fell in love” with narrowboats as a child, and ex-care worker Charlotte left their full-time jobs to document their canal life on social media, where they have built …

Release Date, Where to Watch, Rent, Buy Online

Release Date, Where to Watch, Rent, Buy Online

Published by Daniella Wilson

If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, The Hollywood Reporter may receive an affiliate commission. To say Curry Barker‘s Obsession is a box office sensation would be the understatement of the year. Earlier this month, the 26-year-old filmmaker’s breakout horror crossed $200 million globally, making it Focus Features’ biggest movie of all time. Once Obsession surpassed $222 million, it officially became the top-grossing festival acquisition in history. Now, while continuing its successful theatrical run, Obsession is also available as a premium video-on-demand (PVOD) for digital purchase or rental on Prime Video and Apple TV. At a Glance: How to Stream Obsession Digital release date: Tuesday, June 30 Stream online (rent or buy): Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV Price: $19.99 to rent; $24.99 to buy Directed by The Hollywood Reporter‘s June cover star Curry Barker, Obsession stars Michael Johnston, Inde Navarrette, Cooper Tomlinson, Megan Lawless, Haley Fitzgerald, Darin Toonder and Andy Richeter. The logline reads, “After breaking the mysterious ‘One Wish Willow’ to win his crush’s heart, a hopeless …

How “freeze the rent” really works

How “freeze the rent” really works

Published by Sam Flores

On Thursday, tenants and organizers gathered outside the theater at the New York City College of Technology for a block party, but not just any block party. This was in preparation for testimony at a bureaucratic meeting that plays an outsized role in the lives of millions of New Yorkers and controls the ultimate fate of one of Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s central campaign promises: freezing the rent. Inside the theater, the Rent Guidelines Board, which has nine members all appointed by the mayor, met to hear public testimony regarding the board’s primary responsibility: deciding how much to raise the rent in New York City’s roughly 1 million rent-stabilized apartments, which account for about 42% of all rental apartments in the city. The hearing on Thursday is part of a series hosted by the board at venues around the city in which the board hears testimony from members of the public, from both renters and landlords. As one might expect, renters typically advocate for a smaller rent increase (or none at all) and landlords tend to …

The Royals’ Cheap Rent Isn’t All It’s Cracked Up to Be

The Royals’ Cheap Rent Isn’t All It’s Cracked Up to Be

Published by Sam Flores

Princess Alexandra and her brother, the Duke of Kent, both served as working royals for decades, and they both appear in King Charles III’s coronation photographs in May 2023. Their brother, Prince Michael of Kent, had a career in business, but he and his wife, Princess Michael of Kent, have long lived in Kensington Palace apartments rented from the Royal Household for a discount on market rent. Of the three siblings, Alexandra has spent the largest portion of her life doing work directly for the crown. Already a working royal, Alexandra married businessman and courtier Sir Angus Ogilvy in 1963. After their marriage, they bought a sublease on Thatched Lodge House, in Richmond Park, from its previous leaseholder. In 1971, they became the official leaseholders by signing a new 70-year lease agreement with the Crown Estate. According to the 2026 NAO report, they paid 410 British pounds a month until 1995. Then, she renegotiated her lease on Thatched Lodge House, turning it into a 150-year agreement she can pass on to one of her children. …

Princesses Beatrice and Eugenie are being bankrolled by King Charles – is it time they start paying rent?

Princesses Beatrice and Eugenie are being bankrolled by King Charles – is it time they start paying rent?

Published by Daniella Wilson

Princess Beatrice and Princess Eugenie have found themselves unwillingly in the spotlight again, following the release of a new report by the National Audit Office into the royal family’s residential property arrangements. The report uncovered the shocking detail that Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, the King’s disgraced brother, was subletting his properties at Royal Lodge and gaining an undisclosed private income. It’s understood the rent Andrew received was to cover the maintenance and running costs of the sublets, and he did not make a profit; as the leaseholder, he was allowed to do that. But the revelation has prompted fresh outcry over the benefits Andrew had, while only paying peppercorn rent on his 30-room Windsor mansion. WATCH: Has the King been bankrolling Beatrice and Eugenie? The King’s rental agreement with Beatrice and Eugenie What was also laid bare in the report, however, was that Andrew’s daughters, Beatrice, 37, and Eugenie, 36 – two non-working members of the royal family who have their own careers, second homes in the Cotswolds and Portugal respectively, and are married to wealthy husbands …