Housing Crisis

Public confidence in the UK is trending down. Addressing economic insecurity could be an antidote.

With housing precarity rising in the city, Lyon Metropole is taking emergency steps to provide shelter to homeless and poorly housed people.

In Scotland, housing movements’ “radical” ideas became policies after the entry of the Greens into government.

In the face of unaffordable rents, Manuel Gabarre de Sus looks at how cities around Europe can ensure the right to housing.

Housing markets in Europe are unsustainable on many levels. Effective policies are urgently needed to avert a crisis.

After the Hungarian government abandoned a student housing project for a Fudan campus, young people refused to let it die quietly.

Leilani Farha, global housing expert, explains the housing crisis, how to alleviate it, and why housing should be viewed as a fundamental human right.

The pandemic has exposed how access to quality, safe housing is a major issue in Eastern European cities.

Growing inequality has become a hallmark of many cities. For this reviewer, Richard Florida’s latest book is a worrying prescription for more of the same.

A new housing phenomenon is spreading across Europe’s cities – is it a Bohemian, win-win solution or does it exemplify the entrenchment of precarity into new spheres?