NHK World broadcasts in English. They have a lot of good content about Japanese culture.

It's a Chioggia beet, mostly for cool decoration on a plate.

I don't know why it reminds me of being bored and low energy as a kid and resorting to doing weird postures on the sofa to fill the emptiness.

Some people don't have the capital or don't want to spend the capital to build a house and need places to rent. How do we get those houses built? Massive state intervention? Not sure it will do better than a regulated market, but why not. Now where is the law for it that should be accompanying this potential collapse of private offering?

It shouldn't be but it's a reality that is not offered better solutions as far as this article explains.

Small owners worked to save enough so they could make an investment that gives them a bit of a safety net for their future, and maybe take some freedom to rent another place if they need to live somewhere else for a while. I'm not talking about the ones who inherit enough wealth to do that without working.

If there is no guarantee that they can recover their investment, people will not invest to build homes anymore and their will be less or worse homes to live in.

They should bring those amendments at the same time if they have ideas to prevent a collapse of offer.

Indeed, there needs to be something to motivate investing in homes to build. There are solutions of course, like the state guaranteeing the rent or the state funding the homes. But it's not guaranteed that heavy state intervention is better for the average people than a correctly regulated market, despite what our far left comrades believe here.

Nude rat in French.

I understand a ban on eviction for the most vulnerable people like the elderly and better regulation predatory practices, but a total ban is hard to understand. How do they prevent the obvious abuses this could lead to? What do small owners do when they can't repay their loan because the renter stopped paying and can't be evicted?

One missing piece is that librarians are acting as curators of the data. Not anyone can come to the library, put books around, and game/pay the book finding process to make sure their books come first. Having human curators behind an internet search engine is not realistic.