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Housing
Reporting, analysis, vision & strategy bearing on housing, including the housing crises across the globe, tenants rights, private renting, homelessness, overcrowing, social and affordable housing, mortgages and their affordability.
Zohran Mamdani won last month’s New York City Democratic primary promising radical solutions to the city’s cost-of-living crisis. But the real difficulties…
ONE Northside in Chicago is celebrating two hard-won victories: the city just passed a Green Social Housing Ordinance, which will spur the…
Mamdani’s campaign, featuring rent stabilization, fare-free transit, universal no-cost child care, and municipal groceries, offers immediate relief while addressing NYC’s affordability crisis.…
In the largest eviction of a homeless encampment in recent history, around 100 unhoused people were recently forced to vacate Oregon’s Deschutes National…
Washington state has a progressive reputation. On the surface, this image might seem plausible: after all Democrats have continuously controlled the state…
The Block and Build framework has been a key component of Right to the City Alliance’s strategy development over the past couple of…
Thirty-one years after the fall of administrative apartheid, South Africa stands at an uneasy juncture between the promise of a rights-based democracy…
Outrage over property profiteering and government inaction showed its strength and mobilising power on 5 April, with 42 demonstrations demanding lower rents…
“Any city that doesn’t have a Tenderloin isn’t a city at all” – Herb Caen, longtime San Francisco Chronicle columnist. Few San…
The following is an excerpt adapted from Defying Displacement: Urban Recomposition and Social War (IAS/AK Press, 2024). Defining displacement Gentrification is commonly understood as…
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