homeownership

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...

Reviews

Black Homeownership Under Racial Capitalism: A Review of Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor’s Race for Profit

Hilary Botein - 10 December 2019

Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor’s Race for Profit examines the urban homeownership programs of the 1960s and 1970s, and shows...

Debates

Social housing in Africa: a model to be (re)invented?

Alexandra Biehler & Armelle Choplin & Marie Morelle & translated by Oliver Waine - 16 October 2015

While the question of housing for working-class populations remains a recurrent issue in sub‑Saharan African cities,...

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

The Age of the Renter

Tony Roshan Samara - 5 January 2015

Not all Americans own their home. In fact, more and more of them rent it. More and more of them also end up paying a...

Reviews

The “ordinary” Italian suburbs: exploring the apartment buildings of the middle classes

Thomas Pfirsch & translated by Oliver Waine - 11 December 2014

Through the detailed histories of 23 apartment buildings and their inhabitants, a team of historians and architects...

Interviews

Solving the housing crisis: opening up private housing to the social sector

Lise Bourdeau-Lepage & Jean-Pierre Lévy & Nadine Roudil & translated by Oliver Waine - 13 February 2013

Jean-Pierre Lévy has devoted much of his work to the issue of poor housing conditions. Here, for Metropolitics, he...

Essays

Explaining the periurban right-wing vote: “social frustrations” of low-income households or the reshaping of the working classes?

Violaine Girard & translated by Oliver Waine - 13 June 2012

There is a growing interest in voting patterns in periurban areas, which tend to lean to the right or even far right....

Debates

The difficulties of housing the Chinese “sandwich class”

Jie Chen & Bernard Vorms & translated by Oliver Waine - 21 December 2011

In China, young people from the middle classes are said to belong to a “sandwich class”: they do not have enough...

Debates

Is rising home ownership bad for employment?

Jean Bosvieux & Bernard Coloos & translated by Oliver Waine - 9 November 2011

Homeowners everywhere are less mobile than tenants. However, does home ownership have a negative effect on...

Debates

Access to home-ownership: what are the effects of the economic crisis?

Bernard Vorms & translated by Oliver Waine - 20 April 2011

A 70% home-ownership rate? This is the stated objective of the reform that has recently come into effect in France,...

From the Field

The mayor, the developer and low-cost home ownership

Guilhem Dupuy & translated by Michael Stokes - 17 January 2011

At a time when controlling housing prices has become a national priority, a recent study carried out by Guilhem Dupuy...

Debates

The Virtues and Vices of the Growth of Homeownership

Jean-Claude Driant & translated by Christina Mitrakos - 24 November 2010

Why is it necessary to become a homeowner? Jean-Claude Driant examines the arguments for and against policies that...

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

Black Homeownership Under Racial Capitalism: A Review of Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor’s Race for Profit

Social housing in Africa: a model to be (re)invented?

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

The Age of the Renter

The “ordinary” Italian suburbs: exploring the apartment buildings of the middle classes

Solving the housing crisis: opening up private housing to the social sector

Explaining the periurban right-wing vote: “social frustrations” of low-income households or the reshaping of the working classes?

The difficulties of housing the Chinese “sandwich class”

Is rising home ownership bad for employment?

Access to home-ownership: what are the effects of the economic crisis?

The mayor, the developer and low-cost home ownership

The Virtues and Vices of the Growth of Homeownership

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