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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...
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...
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...
Series
Black Power and Black Self-Determination in a New Time and New Spaces
Urban Wastes, Present and Future
New York Dossier: The Food Industry Faces the Covid‑19 Pandemic
Cities in the Age of Financialization
Contemporary Housing Struggles: Crises, Activism, and Critical Research
New York Tech Dossier: The Dark Side of New York’s Tech Economy
Progressive Mayors and Urban Social Movements
Land Rights in the Urban Global South
Climate Change and Social Change
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From the Field
Covid-19 Transformed New York’s Destination Food Markets
Ivana Mellers
- 5 October 2021
Ivana Mellers analyzes how New York’s destination markets—key spaces of economic and social interactions—coped during...
From the Field
Moving Inside City Limits: The Urban Mobility of Undocumented Youth
Stephen P. Ruszczyk
- 4 June 2019
The urban context and public transportation shape how undocumented youths move within cities. In a comparison of...
Reviews
Filming Ethnic Diversity in New York
Stéphane Tonnelat & translated by Christina Mitrakos
- 21 October 2016
Frederick Wiseman’s fortieth documentary film, In Jackson Heights (2015), returns to an urban theme explored in...
From the Field
Looking Inward, Across the Border
Harel Shapira
- 19 April 2016
In the constellation of anti-immigrant politics in the United States, groups like the Minutemen, civilians who...
Essays
The Political Aesthetics of Drag
Shaka McGlotten
- 13 October 2015
Drag, or the diverse art form and culture of performance that typically plays with gender and sex, is an integral...
Debates
Disarm the Police
Gregory Smithsimon
- 29 September 2015
In the current political debates about discriminatory policing, there has been a lack of serious discussion of...
Other resources online
Cycles of Violence: Analysing Media Discourse in the Newspaper...
Mobile Lives Forum
How are cyclist and pedestrian deaths depicted in newspaper reports, and how do these reports help shape...
Lahti: The First Carbon-Rationing Experiment Applied to Local...
Mobile Lives Forum
The city of Lahti in Finland was the first to experiment with a carbon-trading scheme among its inhabitants to...
Is Rationing Carbon for Travel a Fair, Efficient, and Realistic...
Mobile Lives Forum
In the wake of the pandemic, a carbon tax at Europe’s borders is now on the agenda, but a domestic version for...
Reducing Carbon-Emitting Travel: A Factor of Social Cohesion and...
Mobile Lives Forum
As part of France’s Mission on the Future of the Economic Model of Public Transportation, commissioned by the French...
Strasbourg, An Example of a Cycling City
Mobile Lives Forum
Strasbourg is the leading city for cycling in France and a constant source of inspiration for all French cities...
The Trinity of Walking, Cycling and Public Transportation Must Be...
Mobile Lives Forum
While emissions from the transportation sector remain at a very high level, all hopes are currently pinned on the...
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