housing

Terrains

Producing Affordable Housing in West Africa: How States Respond to Demand and Local Realities

Mathilde Mouton & translated by Oliver Waine - 10 October 2025

Based on her consulting work in West Africa, Mathilde Mouton highlights the limitations of state-led social housing...

Essays

Visible Minorities, Visible Risk: Toronto’s Unequal Eviction Burden

Prentiss Dantzler & Khalil Martin & Abigail Meza - 16 September 2025

In Toronto, who gets evicted isn’t random—it follows the city’s racial and economic divides. Canada’s data practices...

Reviews

Dakar, Portrait of a Capital City

Armelle Choplin - 12 September 2025

Dakar, métamorphoses d’une capitale, by architects Carole Diop and Xavier Ricou, takes readers on a journey through...

Interviews

Unleashing Finance Capitalism in the City: An Interview with Isaac Rose, Author of The Rentier City

Jonathan Silver & Isaac Rose - 24 June 2025

Jonathan Silver interviews author and tenant organizer Isaac Rose about his book on housing financialization in...

Essays

Settling on the Financial Periphery: Alternative Housing Practices in Hegang, China

Yimeng Yang - 17 June 2025

Can valuing a home for its use value constitute a form of resistance to housing financialization? Considering the...

From the Field

Integration or Chainsaw: Some Reflections on the Policies of Cruelty in Milei’s Argentina Based on the ReNaBaP Case | Integración o motosierra: Reflexiones sobre las políticas de crueldad en la Argentina de Milei a partir del caso ReNaBaP

Facundo A. Corti - 20 May 2025

Policy efforts in Argentina to reduce housing inequality have been met with Milei’s chainsaw. Facundo A. Corti shows...

From the Field

Massive Evictions and Housing Crisis in Chile

Santiago Castillo Braithwaite - 15 April 2025

In the midst of a deep housing crisis, more than 100,000 families in Chile are currently living in informal...

From the Field

The Uruguayan Housing Cooperatives: The Miracle of the “Commons” | Las cooperativas de vivienda uruguayas. El milagro de los “comunes”

Benjamín Nahoum - 8 April 2025

Benjamín Nahoum presents the case of the Uruguayan cooperative movement that started in the 1960s. Through the years,...

Essays

Using Cross-Class Politics to Challenge Urban Housing Inequality in Islamabad, Pakistan

Hafsah Siddiqui - 1 April 2025

When redevelopment schemes target a city’s poor for removal to provide opportunities for the privileged, how can poor...

From the Field

A Crisis of Habitation in LA’s Last Remaining Wetland

Deike Peters & Sam Lutzker - 18 March 2025

As housing crises become increasingly entangled with environmental crises, the question of just outcomes requires...

Reviews

Life, Loss, and Cooperative Housing in New York

Christian Anderson - 11 March 2025

What forms of urban living, sociality, and security are enabled by social housing? At once memoir and...

From the Field

Dusting off the Archives: Connecting Historical Renters’ Activism to Contemporary Housing-Justice Efforts

Céline Drieskens - 5 March 2025

Drawing parallels between the first renters’ union in Brussels and the contemporary efforts of WUUNE, a newly formed...

Debates

Can the Market Solve Los Angeles’ Housing and Homelessness Crisis?

Katherine Smock - 27 February 2025

Policymakers in Los Angeles hope that market-based solutions will solve the city’s housing crisis. Data from the...

Series

Horizons in the Housing Struggle

Jaime Jover & Kristen Hackett - 14 February 2025

We are living through a polycrisis, a multidimensional, interlinked series of capitalism’s structural problems...

From the Field

In Norway, Housing Schemes Designed with Children in Mind

Grégoire Tortosa & translated by Oliver Waine - 22 November 2024

How can cities take more of a “child’s eye view”? Grégoire Tortosa shows how avant-garde housing developments in Oslo...

Debates

When Rising Expectations Meet Rising Reaction: New York’s 2024 Housing Policy Fight and the Prospects for the Future

Oksana Mironova & Samuel Stein - 10 September 2024

How did New York housing policy fare with Democratic control of the executive, legislative and judicial branches of...

Interviews

Education Myths, Black Self-Determination, and University Accountability to the City

Christopher R. Rogers & Laura Wolf-Powers - 8 March 2024

Laura Wolf-Powers interviews scholar and community organizer Chris Rogers about his extensive work in Philadelphia....

From the Field

Regulating Basement Conversions in New York City

Ooha Uppalapati - 14 July 2023

Ooha Uppalapati examines the regulation of basement apartments in New York City and the implications of proposed laws...

From the Field

Have Low-Income Households Been Failed by the Sale of Social Housing?

Matthieu Gimat & Manon Le Bon-Vuylsteke & Bruno Marot & translated by Oliver Waine - 6 January 2023

Since 2018, the selling-off of social housing in France, as in other countries in Europe, has accelerated. What are...

From the Field

Securing Shelter While Facing Eviction: The Case of Syrian Migrants in Lebanon

Dima El Khouri - 16 December 2022

Dima El Khouri documents the politics of securing housing for Syrian refugees in Lebanon. She shows the complex web...

Debates

Changes in Contemporary Brazilian Housing Policy: The Dismantling of Social Housing and Grassroots Mobilization

Thalles Vichiato Breda - 21 October 2022

Thalles Vichiato Breda argues that since 2016, with the rise of right-wing governments in Brazil, the federal...

Reviews

New York City’s Descent into Neoliberal Policy: A Review of Benjamin Holtzman’s The Long Crisis

John Krinsky - 19 July 2022

Benjamin Holtzman’s The Long Crisis tells the story of New York’s prolonged descent into neoliberal policy. For those...

Debates

Depending on a Curse: What History Tells Us About Property-Tax Reform in New York City

Daniel Wortel-London - 12 July 2022

Daniel Wortel-London discusses New York’s discriminatory policies and taxes and asks: can a tax system as cumbersome...

From the Field

The Promises and Realities of Data-Driven Community Development

Austin Harrison - 22 February 2022

Tennessee nonprofit Innovate Memphis has spent nearly a decade designing the Memphis Property Hub, a public data...

From the Field

Double Jeopardy for Single-Parent Families: When Housing Conditions and Lockdown Collide

Laure Crepin & Fanny Bugeja-Bloch & translated by Oliver Waine - 5 November 2021

Single-parent families are among those households most affected by economic precarity and the current health crisis....

Essays

Before Redlining and Beyond

Alex B. Hill - 2 November 2021

There is a larger story of spatial racism in cities before and beyond redlining. Spatial racism was not limited to a...

Debates

The Second Coming of the Accessory Dwelling Unit

Joseph Weil Huennekens - 26 October 2021

Joseph Weil Huennekens discusses the history of accessory dwelling units (ADUs) in the context of housing in the...

Essays

A Global Right-to-Housing Movement Versus Financialization

Jaime Jover - 23 June 2021

Financialization enables a wealthy transnational class to accumulate capital through land, enhances inequalities...

Series

Cities in the Age of Financialization

Martine Drozdz & Antoine Guironnet & Ludovic Halbert & translated by James Christopher Mizes & Oliver Waine - 18 June 2021

Over the past four decades, the financialization of capitalism has transformed economies, societies, and urban space....

From the Field

Reflections on Four Years of Housing-Justice Support Work with Mapping Action Collective

Sachi Arakawa & Tim Hitchins - 13 April 2021

Mapping Action Collective, based in Portland, Oregon, leverages mapping and data to support housing-justice...

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