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...
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...
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...
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...
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...

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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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