housing crisis

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

Reviews

A Social Portrait of the Subprime Crisis

Camille François & translated by Oliver Waine - 14 May 2021

What have been the social and urban consequences of the subprime mortgage crisis, and what lessons can be learned and...

Series

Contemporary Housing Struggles: Crises, Activism, and Critical Research

Joshua Akers - 12 March 2021

In this series, Metropolitics focuses on the intersection of organizing, technology, politics, and policy in urban...

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...

Debates

The Damage Inflicted by French Rent Controls between 1914 and 1948

Robert C. Ellickson & David Le Bris - 26 February 2019

In an essay in Metropolitics, Loïc Bonneval questioned the consensus among economists that strict rent controls have...

Debates

Does Rent Control Prevent Investment in Real Estate?

Loïc Bonneval & translated by Oliver Waine - 8 February 2019

While rent-control measures kept private rental housing in France affordable for much of the 20th century, it has...

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

The Ongoing Housing Crisis and the Rust Belt Revolt for the GOP

Elora Lee Raymond - 13 January 2017

In response to a tense post-election moment in the US, the Metropolitics editorial committee has initiated...

From the Field

Contesting Economies of Displacement and Dispossession

Joshua Akers - 13 January 2017

Joshua Akers describes Detroit’s housing crisis, characterized by speculation, displacement, and increasingly violent...

Essays

Managing New York City’s Rental Housing Catastrophe: The Once and Future Potential of Tax-Foreclosed Properties

John Krinsky - 20 October 2015

New York City faces a rental housing crisis, with homelessness at record levels, more than a million households...

From the Field

When Predator Becomes Prey: Rental Housing in Low-Income Minority Neighborhoods

Clément Théry - 2 February 2015

In the growing low-income rental market, predator and prey roles can shift, as landlords and tenants alike can fall...

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...

Massive Evictions and Housing Crisis in Chile

A Crisis of Habitation in LA’s Last Remaining Wetland

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

Horizons in the Housing Struggle

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

A Global Right-to-Housing Movement Versus Financialization

A Social Portrait of the Subprime Crisis

Contemporary Housing Struggles: Crises, Activism, and Critical Research

The Limits of the Accepted Orthodoxy on Rent Control

The Damage Inflicted by French Rent Controls between 1914 and 1948

Does Rent Control Prevent Investment in Real Estate?

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

The Ongoing Housing Crisis and the Rust Belt Revolt for the GOP

Contesting Economies of Displacement and Dispossession

Managing New York City’s Rental Housing Catastrophe: The Once and Future Potential of Tax-Foreclosed Properties

When Predator Becomes Prey: Rental Housing in Low-Income Minority Neighborhoods

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

The Age of the Renter

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