“A multi-faceted approach is necessary to address the housing needs of urban workers and the urban poor effectively.”Read the full article
Goodbye 2023: our recommended Equal Times reads of the year
Tamara Gausi:
To round up the year, each Equal Times editor picks the stories that have stayed in their heart and mind, long after publication.Read the full article
Tamara Gausi:
To round up the year, each Equal Times editor picks the stories that have stayed in their heart and mind, long after publication.Read the full article
“Maybe it’s not the right to the city that we need. […] the city represents a form of accumulation that feeds on the extraction of everything around it: the favelas, the occupations and the countryside.”Read the full article
Estimates put Ghana’s housing deficit at about 1.8 million units. This translates to about six million people out of a population of approximately 33 million in need of housing. However, these figures do not account for the quality of available [...]Read the full article
Where the housing and climate crises meet, a question appears: who is a climate-adaptive city for?Read the full article
Real estate developers are flocking to some of Miami’s poorest neighbourhoods, located farther from the coast and better protected from flooding and coastal erosion. Faced with rising housing prices and cost of living, many longtime residents are being forced to [...]Read the full article
A decision by Nigeria’s government to close the camps housing hundreds of thousands of refugees uprooted by the Boko Haram conflict has cost lives, increased human trafficking and labour exploitation in the area, and will make it harder for NGOs to provide humanitarian [...]Read the full article
After labelling their neighbourhood a ‘slum,’ the government evicted its residents to make way for luxury housing developments in the so-called ‘Maspero Triangle’, located two kilometres from Tahrir Square in the Boulaq district. These new flats are aimed at more affluent [...]Read the full article
In 2019, the Abbé Pierre Foundation, which fights against bad housing and exclusion, estimated the number of homeless children in France at 30,000. Since then, local charities have noted an increase in the number of homeless children throughout the country, particularly due to the arrival of new [...]Read the full article
In Mayotte, France’s 101st department, the state is stepping up its housing demolitions. The goal is to eliminate unsanitary housing. But its action has had serious consequences for thousands of people who have been driven out of their homes without anywhere else to [...]Read the full article
As the world begins to return to normalcy against the backdrop of an ongoing health crisis, mental health issues are on the rise.Read the full article
Rental intermediation allows the state, or an approved association, to guarantee private landlords that the rent will be paid on one hand, and to offer tenants affordable rent on the other.Read the full article
