affordable housing

Interviews

Fighting for Housing Justice: An Interview with Two Youth Organizers in Curtis Bay, Baltimore

Nicole Fabricant & Carlos Sanchez & Terriq Thompson - 16 March 2021
Two Baltimore youth organizers discuss the importance of community land trusts, for housing and beyond. Series:...
From the Field

The Contestations and Contradictions of the New York City Housing Authority’s Plan for Mixed-Income Redevelopment

Valerie E. Stahl - 10 November 2020
The New York City Housing Authority, faced with a capital shortfall of nearly $40 billion, is pursuing a series of...
Essays

The House is Ours: How Moms 4 Housing Challenged the Private-Property Paradigm

Lauren Everett - 6 October 2020
In the midst of a global housing affordability crisis that has been heightened by the Covid‑19 pandemic, it is time...
Essays

Shelters for Profit, Not People: The Rise of Tax-Credit Investment in US Cities

Renee Tapp - 22 September 2020
Tax-credit investment in US cities provides tax havens for investors, and squanders taxpayer resources on...
Debates

What Does a Just Housing Plan Look Like? NYC and National Housing Movements Show the Way

Oksana Mironova & Sylvia Morse - 22 October 2019
How could we develop a housing plan that is not rooted in capitalism? Oksana Mironova and Sylvia Morse describe how...
From the Field

Community Movements and Housing Liberalism: Reflections on the Bank of America Low‑Income Housing Competition

Avi Garelick - 15 October 2019
Avi Garelick describes how the imperative for realism in affordable housing production conflicts with the goals of...
Reviews

Crisis Makes Heroes: Affordable Housing in New York City During and After a “Decade of Fire”

Susan Saegert - 2 July 2019
Susan Saegert discusses the memoirs of two hard-fighting Bronx housing advocates, active at a particularly...
Debates

The Limits of the Accepted Orthodoxy on Rent Control

Loïc Bonneval & François Robert & translated by Oliver Waine - 22 March 2019
In response to a recent critique of their work, Loïc Bonneval and François Robert defend their method and results. In...
Essays

Organizing Against Projet Gentrification: Housing Activism in a White-Supremacist Landscape in Montreal

Pierce Nettling - 27 November 2018
Housing activists in Montreal and Quebec have successfully sought to secure tenant rights and social housing for...
From the Field

When Progressive Mayors Aren’t Enough: Homes for All and Trans-Local Social Movements

H. Jacob Carlson & Marnie Brady & Gianpaolo Baiocchi - 13 November 2018
Progressive governments are often pulled away from their campaign promises by local growth-coalition interests or...
Reviews

Photographing the Slums of 1900s Berlin

Danièle Voldman & translated by Oliver Waine - 14 September 2018
At the turn of the 20th century, the dramatically poor conditions of urban working-class housing was a cause of...
From the Field

The Cost of Affordability: Inclusionary Zoning and Displacement in East New York

James Shelton - 20 March 2018
What are the impacts of New York City’s Mandatory Inclusionary Housing program upon low-income communities of color?...
From the Field

Excluding Fast and Slow: Charlottesville’s Long Battle over Public Space

Frank Muraca - 9 January 2018
The “Unite the Right” white-supremacist rally in downtown Charlottesville, Virginia, erupted into violence, killing...
Debates

To Prevent Worsening Inequality, Put Affluent Neighborhoods on NYC Rezoning List

Moses Gates - 17 November 2015
Mandatory Inclusionary Zoning is meant to boost the affordable housing supply and create more economically...
Debates

New York’s de Blasio bargains with FIRE

Tom Waters - 16 June 2015
Frantic deal-making over an obscure but costly New York City real-estate tax incentive (421‑a) provides a window...
Debates

Interrupting Inequality: Crisis and Opportunity in Low-Income Housing Policy

Susan Saegert - 26 January 2015
Inequality in the United States is deeply rooted in issues of property ownership, wealth, race and class....
From the Field

“Soft densification” in Canada

Anastasia Touati & translated by Oliver Waine - 5 June 2013
Against the backdrop of a housing crisis, a number of local authorities in Ontario, Canada, have developed policies...

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From the Field

Arts Districts Without Artists

Meghan Ashlin Rich - 23 March 2015
Numerous studies have examined gentrification’s harmful effects for low-income residents, but few examine the...
Debates

Interrupting Inequality: Crisis and Opportunity in Low-Income Housing Policy

Susan Saegert - 26 January 2015
Inequality in the United States is deeply rooted in issues of property ownership, wealth, race and class....
Debates

Kanal İstanbul: a “crazy project” serving political ambitions

Yoann Morvan & translated by Oliver Waine - 7 December 2011
The current proliferation of mega-projects in the Istanbul metropolitan area is both undeniable and impressive. The...

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When New Lifestyles Disrupt Daily Mobility in England

Mobile Lives Forum
Thanks to new “remote” practices enabled by the development of teleworking and online shopping, we can perform our...

Autonomous Vehicles: What Role Can They Play in the Mobility...

Mobile Lives Forum
At a time when companies and governments are focusing all their energy on innovation, autonomous vehicles seem to...

Call for Papers | Southern Diaries: Mobilities Research in the...

Mobile Lives Forum
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“Manuel de sociologie des mobilités géographiques”, by Leslie...

Mobile Lives Forum
While mobility in all its forms has been the subject of an increasing amount of research over the past 20 years,...

History of the Concept of Mobility

Mobile Lives Forum
Defining mobility is especially important because the term is highly polysemous. When geographers use the term...

Are Homeless People “Vagrants”?

Mobile Lives Forum
The image of the “homeless person” is associated with the older figure of the wandering vagrant. In reality,...
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