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Jamaica Homes Global Affairs & Economic Review — Edition 10 | Published 3 October 2025 | Reporting Period: 3 September…

Jamaica Homes Global Conflict & Caribbean Impact Review — Edition 4 | Published 3 October 2025 | Reporting Period: 3…

A Spanish court ordered nine nuns who broke with the Vatican to leave their 15th-century convent in Belorado, ruling that the Church held valid ownership documents while the nuns showed no legal title, and warning of forced eviction.

A Gleaner reader pointed out that Airbnbs may already fall under Jamaica’s Rent Restriction Act, a law that predates the platform. Nobody has ever enforced it against short-term rentals.

Residents of Harare’s Borrowdale suburb who won a High Court order halting a United Methodist church project on a residential stand accused a council planning official of issuing a temporary permit that let work continue.

Jamaica Homes Global Conflict & Caribbean Impact Review — Edition 5 | Published 3 July 2025 | Reporting Period: 3…

UN-Habitat estimates that 2.8 billion people worldwide lack adequate housing. Jamaica’s own housing deficit, growing urbanisation, and informal settlements place it squarely within a global crisis that no island can resolve by looking inward alone.

The Church of England opened a £3.2 million fund offering parishes grants of up to £25,000 each for architects, consultants and planning advice, so they can explore building affordable homes on church halls, car parks and other land.

Jamaica Homes Global Conflict & Caribbean Impact Review — Edition 6 | Published 3 April 2025 | Reporting Period: 3…

California’s SB 4 lets churches build fully affordable homes by right. A Laguna Beach church applied for 44 homes and about 80 Los Angeles congregations were exploring housing, Shelterforce reported in 2025.

Jamaica Homes Global Conflict & Caribbean Impact Review — Edition 7 | Published 3 January 2025 | Reporting Period: 3…

Notre-Dame drew €843 million in donations, but France’s 42,000-plus mostly publicly owned churches are decaying as rural populations shrink, with some 3,000 to 5,000 religious buildings thought to be endangered.

India’s Madras High Court ordered a federal investigation into claims that Church of South India officials sold 31.10 acres valued at over 220 million rupees for 12 million rupees, land first granted to a mission in 1912.

Jamaica Homes Global Conflict & Caribbean Impact Review — Edition 8 | Published 3 October 2024 | Reporting Period: 3…

Germany’s churches have deconsecrated or closed more than 1,000 buildings, and an architecture professor expects one in four or five, about 10,000 buildings, to lose their original use by 2033 as membership and church tax revenue fall.