Housing Crisis

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?

In order to make sense of this month’s devastating fire in London, it has to be placed in a context of austerity, deregulation & privatisation.

For many people it seems easier to imagine the end of the world, or even the end of capitalism, than to imagine the end of growth. To break this spell of growth, we bring you some of the policy proposals that are derived from the theory of degrowth.

The UK faces a housing crisis. It is this crisis, and the growing number of evictions that are mobilising people to campaign on housing. A group of young mothers fights back with direct action.