Solving the housing crisis: opening up private housing to the social sector

2013-02-13T05:50:00Z

Jean-Pierre Lévy has devoted much of his work to the issue of poor housing conditions. Here, for Metropolitics, he discusses the causes of a crisis that, in his view, is essentially qualitative in nature, and proposes a solution to this crisis, whereby the social status of housing is defined according to who occupies it rather than where it is built.
What are the main differences between the way housing issues were addressed in the 1970s and the way they are addressed today?
Housing issues

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