informal 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...

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...

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

Rio de Janeiro: Storms, Militia, and Urban Development

Leandro Benmergui & Rafael Soares Gonçalves & translated by Oliver Waine - 8 November 2019

The dramatic consequences of storms at the beginning of 2019 in a favela in Rio de Janeiro reveal the ongoing...

From the Field

Repositioning the state’s role through water politics in Mexico City’s informal settlements

Guillem Ramírez Chico - 27 March 2018

Throughout the Mexico City metropolitan area, the struggle for water access often defines the relationship (or lack...

From the Field

Snowbirds’ Gift Economy in the Arizona Desert

David Frati - 7 November 2017

Each year, 200,000 retired people spend the winter in and around the small town of Quartzsite, Arizona, in the...

From the Field

Land Titling: A Tool, not a Panacea

Kareem Ibrahim & Deena Khalil - 20 December 2016

The government of Egypt has long relied on land titling to limit the growth of informal urban residential...

From the Field

Securing Land Tenure in Egypt: Who Needs Registered Titles?

David Sims - 14 June 2016

David Sims challenges popular wisdom on property-rights regimes in non-Western nations by questioning the relevance...

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

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

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

Rio de Janeiro: Storms, Militia, and Urban Development

Repositioning the state’s role through water politics in Mexico City’s informal settlements

Snowbirds’ Gift Economy in the Arizona Desert

Land Titling: A Tool, not a Panacea

Securing Land Tenure in Egypt: Who Needs Registered Titles?

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