Alex Diner, from the New Economics Foundation, says locally-based initiatives can boost affordable housing supply and improve dilapidated neighbourhoods. Despite years of rhetoric around
Access to adequate housing continues to be an unfulfilled right in many parts of the world, writes Winnie Narváez Herrera, Facilitator ÁBACOenRed /FUPECG. In Latin
We’ve increasingly viewed streets as places for motor vehicles. But what happens when you tweak the space or manage access to it? Two studies in
Casey Dawkins, University of Maryland As capital travels the globe, it often lands in historically disinvested urban neighbourhoods, and when conditions are ripe, fuels
As the private rented sector has grown and developed, concerns about the need to improve standards in it have come into sharper focus within policy
Densification has become an important policy objective in many countries to combat urban sprawl, writes Josje Bouwmeester from the University of Bern, Switzerland. The division
Much of public policy aims to diminish or eradicate social evils or harms, but one of the problems with such policy aims is that it’s
Ecuador was the first country in the world to recognise the right to housing in its constitution. Researchers Vanessa Pinto Valencia, Marco Córdova Montúfar and
Community-led housing approaches have grown in global importance and prominence, writes Dr Tom Moore. Around the world, citizens are collaborating to tackle problems of housing
Mercy Denedo and Amanze Ejiogu report on the findings of their latest research. In July 2021, we published our report “Stigma and Social
