Are artificial islands the answer to Hong Kong’s housing crisis?
Will a $60bn development to house 1.1 million people help to ease the world’s most unaffordable property market or is it simply ‘pouring money into the sea’?
Poverty
Uber co-founder buys record-breaking LA mansion for $72.5m as drivers fight for wages
Los Angeles sees a spike in the homelessness population while homes the size of football fields are selling for more than $100m
Philanthropists can’t eradicate global poverty, but we can make a start
Philanthropic organisations have the agility, creativity and audacity to be the risk takers of development financing
Forbes list ‘fat cats’ have more money than all regular cat owners in America
The 400 richest people in the US have a greater collective wealth than 36 million ordinary US households, study finds
When did ‘aspiration’ become a dirty word? When they sprayed it gold…
Two encounters on the streets of London: the gold Ferrari said: ‘I have more money than you.’ The begging mother said: ‘I have none’
Why it’s vital the organic food industry is given room to grow
Take it from this mung bean-munching Guardianista – organics could solve many of the UK’s problems with food poverty and how we eat