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☆ Gen Z-ers Are Moving Out. Where Are They Looking to Buy Homes?
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-15 | by ( Kalia Richardson | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Many Gen Z-ers who came of age during the past couple of years missed out on the record-low mortgage rates of 2020 and 2021. But even with higher rates now in place, Mr. Channel expects the number of Gen Z home buyers to grow from here. “Even though you might hear a lot of doom and gloom and people might say, ‘Well, Gen Z-ers will never be able to buy a house,’ they said the same thing about millennials, and millennials are the largest group of home buyers in America,” he said. Mr. Channel relayed some tips for 20-somethings looking to buy a home: Focus on boosting your credit score and repaying student loans. And take advantage of first-time buyer programs, including Federal Housing Administration loans, which can ease the burden on young buyers with smaller down payments and lower credit scores.

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☆ Crane Index Shows Dip in Commercial Construction, Rise in Residential
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-08 | by ( Kalia Richardson | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

As more workers convert their living rooms and bedrooms to home offices, more commercial spaces are left vacant. The evolving work space is one reason crane construction of residential and mixed-use spaces is up across North America, according to a new report. The biannual Rider Levett Bucknall Crane Index for North America, which tracks the number of tower cranes across 14 U.S. and Canadian metro areas, reports that the overall crane count increased by 7.04 percent from the third quarter of 2022 to the first quarter of 2023. According to the survey, eight of the metros saw an increase in cranes, two saw decreases and four held steady — and while a 7.04 percent increase may seem small, it’s the highest reported increase since 2021. To collect the data, researchers count the number of fixed cranes on work sites by tracking construction permits submitted and by simply driving around (biking in New York) to identify tower cranes.

Persons: Levett Bucknall Organizations: North, metros Locations: North America, New York

☆ Here’s What to Know About ‘Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story’
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-11 | by ( Kalia Richardson | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

With her withering glares and colossal wigs, Queen Charlotte has become a treasured character in the first two seasons of “Bridgerton,” the steamy hit Netflix series set in an alternate, racially diverse version of Regency Era Britain. As played by Golda Rosheuvel, she is a hard-line matriarch with an ear for gossip and an eye for beauty. Now she is the subject of her own six-episode Netflix prequel series, “Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story,” which tells the tale of young Charlotte (India Amarteifio) as she begins her rise to power. Viewers witness her whirlwind marriage to King George III, meet her delinquent children and come to better understand her motivations and loneliness. “‘The love of Queen Charlotte and King George united the nation’ — that’s one sentence in ‘Bridgerton,’ and to me that told a whole world,” Shonda Rhimes, the show’s creator, said in a phone interview last week.

☆ ‘Yellowjackets’: How Sophie Nélisse Managed That Harrowing Birth Scene
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-05 | by ( Kalia Richardson | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

This article contains spoilers for Episode 6 of Season 2 of “Yellowjackets.”Sophie Nélisse keeps a close eye on what she eats. When picking out a restaurant for her 23rd birthday dinner last month, she opted for an Italian spot in Montreal that specializes in naturally leavened pizza, pies without commercial yeast. She shops at Erewhon, the trendy health food store, when she is in Los Angeles. “I’ve been eating clean,” she said in a recent video call from her home in Montreal. In the Season 2 premiere, her character, the teenage version of Shauna, snacks on her dead best friend Jackie’s ear.

☆ What’s in Our Queue? ‘Abbott Elementary’ and More
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-02 | by ( Kalia Richardson | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

What’s in Our Queue? ‘Abbott Elementary’ and MoreGilles Mingasson/ABC, via Associated PressI am a reporting fellow on The Times’s Culture desk. As a South Florida native who knows only poolside weather year round, I am experiencing my first real fall. As I await the cold, here are five things that I’ve been listening to and watching →

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