Conveners
T_13 HOUSING AND SHELTER: Housing crisis I
- Massimo Bricocoli (Department of Architecture and Urban Studies, Politecnico di Milano)
T_13 HOUSING AND SHELTER: Housing crisis II
- Massimo Bricocoli (Department of Architecture and Urban Studies, Politecnico di Milano)
T_13 HOUSING AND SHELTER: Housing justice and equality
- Wanlin Huang
T_13 HOUSING AND SHELTER: Housing, planning, and policy I
- Elif Alkay (Prof. Dr,, Istanbul Technical University, Faculty of Architecture, Department of Urban and Regional Planning)
T_13 HOUSING AND SHELTER: Housing, planning, and policy I
- Elif Alkay (Prof. Dr,, Istanbul Technical University, Faculty of Architecture, Department of Urban and Regional Planning)
T_13 HOUSING AND SHELTER: Housing supply and production I
- Dilek Darby (Istanbul University)
T_13 HOUSING AND SHELTER: Housing supply and production II
- Dilek Darby (Istanbul University)
T_13 HOUSING AND SHELTER: Impacts of housing intervention I
- Wanlin Huang
T_13 HOUSING AND SHELTER: Impacts of housing intervention II
- Wanlin Huang
In metropolitan areas with large populations, university students suffer from spatial inequalities due to inadequate housing supply and uneven distribution of housing environment elements, leading to stress, instability, and insecurity (Sotomayor et al., 2022; Fang and van Liempt, 2021). Since students are a vulnerable group with limited housing choices, an over-reliance on market distribution...
China's housing development has moved from incremental construction to the stage of improving the quality of stock.Historic and cultural block, due to their early construction, property rights, heritage conservation, and funding, have poor living qualities, difficulties in relocating populations, and a concentration of vulnerable populations, and residents generally lack a safe, healthy, and...
The housing crisis in Germany, particularly the shortage of affordable housing in metropolitan areas, poses a significant challenge for middle- and low-income households. However, new buildings alone cannot resolve this issue, especially in the context of the climate crisis. Construction activities and the operation of buildings are among the largest contributors to CO2 emissions in Germany...
Housing has been one of Tรผrkiye's significant urban problems in recent decades. There are two broad categories of factors that directly influence this multifaceted problem. The supply-side factors are mainly the economic and institutional factors that aim to solve the problem by using the housing supply as a tool. Since high rents have been considered the primary cause of the high costs of...
Urban densification is often considered the best strategy for achieving sustainability goals and fostering social mix in urban contexts. While social mix has been used as a central argument to promote densification in several contexts, research has shown that densification is often linked to rising rents and housing prices, displacement, and exclusionary pressures if effective housing policies...
In the city of Milan, the gap between salaries and housing costs continues to widen. As the divide deepens, homeownership (by those who already own or inherit) or financial support are becoming almost necessary conditions for living and working in the city. For those who cannot rely on either of these conditions, the almost constant upward trend of property values and rents has a strong impact...
South Korea has been experienced rapid increase in housing prices and residential instability due to job and industry concentration in the Seoul metropolitan region. The sharp rise in housing prices is one of the major factors that undermines residential stability and housing affordability. Many studies have highlighted the regional imbalance of jobs and industries as a key factor in the...
The housing market is considered a critical sector and a driving force in nearly all economies. In Tรผrkiye, ongoing economic instability has further amplified the significance of the housing sector, fueling a steady increase in housing prices nationwide. Given its critical role in the Turkish economy, the housing marketโs trajectory is crucial not only for economic stability but also for...
Housing, and more specifically providing affordable housing, is now a hot political topic with the European Union now having appointed the first ever Commissioner for Energy and Housing. The drivers of this contemporary housing crisis are manifold, and differ across Europe. In this paper, we will present key results of the ESPON House4All European Research project running from July 2023-July...
Informal settlements are a global issue affecting many countries, including Jakarta. Ongoing urbanization and socio-economic changes have accelerated the development of these settlements in recent decades (UN Habitat, 2021; Cinnamon & Noth, 2023). Informal settlements are complex in both their composition and the social relationships within them; they are neither homogeneous nor well-organized...
This research critically evaluates the post-pandemic urban development trajectories and design-led regeneration projects emerging in Athens, Greece, following the compounded financial and humanitarian crises of recent years. Focusing on the Municipalityโs most socioeconomically marginalised communities, this study interrogates how urban regeneration initiatives intersect with issues of race,...
The concept of 'collaborative housing' refers to various housing models that feature shared spaces or facilities designed for collaboration, resident solidarity, participation in the redevelopment or design processes, and internal governance based on collaboration (Vestbro, 2010a; Bresson and Labit, 2020; Fromm, 2012; Czischke and Huisman, 2018). In contrast to traditional housing, these...
As global urbanization transitions into the stock development stage, the renewal of aging communities has emerged as a critical strategy for addressing the housing crisis and enhancing urban functions. However, three core challenges persist in current practices: balancing historical preservation with modern adaptability, safeguarding the housing rights of vulnerable groups, and reconciling...
Climate change and the environmental crisis pose challenges that must be addressed in a rapid and decisive way. The green transition, significantly put forward by the European Green Deal, aims at facing such challenges through initiatives to make Europe climate neutral by 2050, boosting green growth, cutting pollution and creating green jobs. The green transition is expected to involve deep...
According to Lefebvre (2013), the prioritization of exchange value in urban space forms the basis of urban injustice and inequality. Under the influence of neoliberal policies, housing has transformed from a basic need for shelter into an investment, prestige, and rent-generating commodity. The 2000s, as a period when neoliberal policies became spatialized, marked a time of significant changes...
Many Southern European countries are characterised by a variety of inhabitation practices that, despite their extreme phenomenological diversity, can all be labelled as expressions of informality/illegality: the construction of unauthorised housing units by the middle class, informal inhabitation practices by marginalised or racialized subjects, the illegitimate occupation of public housing...
A defining planning challenge for contemporary European cities is the housing provision and affordability crisis. City planners are compelled to increase the delivery of dwellings, while addressing concerns about affordability, project viability, and functional complementarity through mixed-use developments. Moreover, in the context of climate crisis, these ambitions are accompanied by...
This paper analyzes the transformations of housing policy governance in Europe, with a focus on the redefinition of housing responsibilities and the role of the actors involved. The focus is on the comparison between Italy and France, two countries that, albeit at different times and in different ways, detect processes of decentralization and (re)structuring of housing governance.
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The evolution of social housing in Braga, city located in Portugal, presents a compelling case study of how medium-sized European cities navigate housing challenges amid rapid urban growth and market pressures. This paper results of a collaboration between academics and the municipality and examines the trajectory and current state of social housing in Braga over the past three decades...
Collaborative Housing and Planning: Institutional Interfaces in the UK and Spain
This research examines collaborative housing's contribution to planning practice through its function as an โinstitutional interfaceโ through which housing struggles can be articulated and out into relation with the prevailing institutional logics of activity (Florea, Gagyi and Jacobsson, 2022). It investigates...
A diverse housing supply is widely recognized as a crucial mechanism for mitigating socioeconomic segregation by allowing different income groups to coexist within the same urban fabric. However, most existing research has focused on cities where housing typologies are spatially clustered, reinforcing patterns of residential segregation (Glaeser and Gyourko 2018, Tiebout 1956). Less attention...
Residential Satisfaction (RS) is a widely studied concept in urban planning, environmental psychology, real estate, and marketing that influences housing quality, neighborhood livability, quality of life evaluations, and consumer preferences. However, a systematic review of 50 studies reveals inconsistencies in how RS and its subcomponent, neighborhood satisfaction (NS), are both defined and...
The question of the effects of planning is an old issue for the urban planning research community. Yet, urban plans have been widely criticized for being โrigidโ, โinflexibleโ, โinefficientโ (Demaziรจres and Desjardins, 2016) to the point of causing the field to lose interest in these documents (Hopkins and Knaap, 2018). Their usefulness is sometimes even seen mainly (only) in gathering actors...
The paper stems from a nationally funded project at the intersection of research and design called โUnconventional Affordable Housingโ, involving the Department of Architecture and Urban Studies (DAStU) at Politecnico di Milano, the University of Trieste and the University of Bari. In this context, a collaboration was launched between DAStU and the city administration of San Donato Milanese....
A considerable number of developing countries continue to encounter significant challenges in terms of the provision of social housing for their inhabitants. In Turkey, the issue of social housing is intricately linked to the neoliberal restructuring of social housing policies, which mirrors global trends but exhibits distinct intensity and local dynamics. Prior to the 1980s, the provision of...
This paper illustrates the experience of Universitร Iuav di Venezia (Iuav) as a consultant to the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Programme of Assistance to the Palestinian People (PAPP) in developing design strategies for the recovery, reconstruction and development for the Gaza Strip. Recognising the complexity of the humanitarian crisis and the challenges posed by the evolving...
Given changing patterns of use of commercial space post-Covid, particularly offices, and situations of housing crisis being experienced in many places internationally, there is growing interest in adaptive reuse of commercial buildings for residential purposes. Sustainability considerations around the embodied carbon within building structures also makes such change of use schemes increasingly...
Australian cities are generally large and sprawling, predominantly located in coastal zonesโthus vulnerable to several climate change impacts, including but not limited to floods, storm damage, cyclones and bushfire. In addition to climatic vulnerability, Australia has some of the largest and most unaffordable housing in the OECD. The 4 million people conurbation of South East Queensland...
Housing renewal, which aims to improve the existing housing stockโs structural quality, is largely associated with earthquake risk and the expectation of economic benefits, in Turkey. With the effect of the legal regulation made in 2012 that encourages housing renewal in order to produce earthquake-resistant building stock (Angell, 2014), there has been a significant increase in the number of...
Housing shortages are often associated with the high-demand city centres where their effects are most visible and intense. But housing shortages are regional phenomena whose effects extend far from the urban core. In this study, we explore the implications of insufficient housing completions for urban agglomerations in Europe. Our key question is: what do tight housing markets mean for...
In Italy, and in Lombardy in particular, an interesting third housing sector has been developing for about 25 years. Born as a reaction to the dramatic lack of rental housing, promoted by entities such as the Milanese Church (Fondazione San Carlo), Fondazione Cariplo, the most important Italian bank foundation (Fondazione Housing Sociale), by the cooperative movement (DAR Casa) it has made a...
Access to adequate and stable housing is among the most pressing challenges faced by migrants across Europe, profoundly influencing their socio-spatial inclusion and right to the city (Ager & Strang, 2008; Muรฑoz, 2018; Boccagni, 2020). In Italy, these barriers are compounded by structural deficits in housing policies and pervasive discrimination (Marconi & Shkopi, 2022; Semprebon et al.,...
This article explores the social impacts of public housing redevelopment through how its outcomes reshape public tenantsโ experiences of citizenship in Hong Kong. As the outcome of the redevelopment, public tenantsโ habitats are transformed by demolishing old structures of buildings and neighbourhood layouts and then building new ones; in some cases, residentsโ composition is also changed to...
This contribution takes a look at the affected tenants under economic pressure in the private rental sector in Vienna and how those have navigated their experiences of (displacement) pressure by incorporating seeking help at institutional interventions into their strategies. In Vienna, Austria, housing affordability has decreased especially with the onset of multiple crisis-related dynamics,...
The relationship between public housing policies and ownership presents several challenges which often stem from the tension between the goals of providing affordable housing for low-income households and the realities of market dynamics, socio-economic factors, and policy implementation (Phang & Pacey, 2018; Aalbers, 2016; Rolnik, 2013; Rohe, Van Zandt, & McCarthy, 2002). Iranโs Mehr Housing...
In this paper I explore the impact of redevelopment-related forms of displacement on housing affordability and household economic well-being, focusing on both for-profit and not-for-profit urban redevelopment projects in Switzerland. Research in the U.S. has shown that forced displacement and evictions lead to lower incomes and housing stability, as households experience reduced earnings...
The research is aimed at studying the patterns of development and integration of new mass housing residential areas on the periphery of Moscow in logic of postmetropolis urbanization (Soja 2000). The rural areas annexed to Moscow less than 15 years ago have increased their population to 750,000 people, and by 2035 1.5 million will live here. In fact, an urban mega-satellite built from scratch...
The evolution of housing development policies in Lagos has responded to the growing population and urbanization challenges since Nigeria's independence in 1960. The rapid influx of migrants seeking better opportunities has exacerbated the housing deficit, necessitating policy interventions aimed at affordable housing solutions. Considering the 22 million housing deficits in Nigeria (World...
Housing affordability and accessibility remain critical challenges in Italian urban areas, particularly in Naples. The demand for affordable and inclusive housing necessitates innovative solutions that address shifting social, demographics and urban planning needs. A shift toward cooperative housing policies and 'housing commons' underscores the importance of accessibility and...
With the acceleration of China's urbanization process and the frequent occurrence of natural disasters, public health and other emergencies, traditional low-income housing mainly meets the long-term living needs of residents, but it is often difficult to meet the needs of temporary refuge and emergency resettlement in emergency situations. Xi 'an, as China's new first-tier city.On the one...
Residential care facilities for individuals with disabilities play a crucial role in enhancing their quality of life and supporting sustainable daily living. However, NIMBY (Not In My Backyard) attitudes among local residents often hinder efforts to improve the social independence and quality of life for these individuals. A primary concern driving this opposition is the fear of decreasing...
This article explores the recent transformations in housing production in Heliรณpolis, one of the largest favelas in the city of Sรฃo Paulo, Brazil. This territory consolidated itself through a process of self-construction and the struggle for housing, a dynamic that, while still present in the area, has increasingly given way to an intensive housing production of vertical buildings, identified...
Over the last 22 years of single-party rule in Turkey, both the private sector and the state have made significant investments in housing aligned with a construction-based growth model. While this approach has yielded quantitative results, housing affordability for middle- and lower-income classes, particularly in urban areas, has become a major concern. The housing crisis remains a critical...
A major problem associated with large-scale public housing is social exclusion. Large-scale standalone public housing complexes concentrate poverty and stand out compared to market-rate housing. In such environments, ordinary people may develop prejudices against public housing, causing public housing residents to experience discrimination. Referring to residents living in 'Humansia,' which is...
This paper examines the Faircloth-to-RAD conversion process as an example of creative reinterpretation and repositioning of existing public policy within the national bureaucracy to create an emerging path for US public housing authorities to expand the supply of federally assisted, deeply affordable housing. Specifically, it will delve into the origins and structure of the program and discuss...
Housing is a fundamental human right, essential to the well-being of individuals, families, and communities. However, the global housing crisis, driven by rapid urbanization, the decline of public housing, and the financialization of housing, has transformed housing from a social need into a commodity. With over 1.6 billion people worldwide lacking adequate housingโa figure projected to rise...
This paper explores the intersection of migration trajectories with development induced displacement in globalizing cities, where intensifying circulations of people and capital collide to make inhabitation increasingly unsettled (Simone 2019; Landau; 2022). Specifically, I explore dynamics of affordable shelter provision by drawing on ethnographic fieldwork (2018-19, 2021-22) in Fikirtepe, ...
After the COVID19 pandemic, the cost of rents and mortgages have risen and the relation of these expenditures to income ratio has worsened, reducing the ability of households to reach adequate housing. The region shared by Mexico, United States and Canada are no exception, about one-third of low-income population in North America is burdened by housing costs, and this trend spread across its...
As Canadian cities respond to the growing challenges of post-pandemic economic adjustments and a housing affordability crisis, regeneration of vacant downtowns through adaptive reuse provides an opportunity to maximize economic and social benefits (Mohamed et al, 2017). Through the planning and design of adaptive reuse projects, planners have the opportunity to make a significant difference to...
Today, over 370 million internal migrants cross jurisdictions and live in unauthorized rental housing communities. The housing struggles of migrants challenge Chinaโs urban governance structure (Hsing 2010; Zhang 2002). As the governing strategies of the household registration system have proved inadequate, China has launched an initiative to reconfigure the largely informal rental housing...
Shelter need and response are unmet in most cases during emergency and post crisis (EPC) period due to the nature of calamity and poor planning practices. Planning practices are influenced by multi-actor logics that contribute to designing conflicting strategies both in horizontal and vertical terms.
Following two years of heavy war in Tigray (2020-22), a large number of IDPs have influxes to...
The mid-sized city of รanakkale is defined by its dependence on surrounding natural and rural landscapes, with rural-based production playing a key role in the livelihoods of nearby communities. However, since the 2000s, urban expansion has led to significant transformations in rural spaces and their production dynamics. As the city grows toward neighboring rural settlements, including...
According to the most recent report by the EUโs Joint Research Centre, โHouse prices have surged by more than 50% since 2015, and rents have risen by more than 13% across the EUโ: a dramatic increase triggered by economic factors which, the study claims, include increasing land prices and speculative pricing in high-demand areas (Ozdemir & Koukoufikis 2025).
Some of these economic factors may...
Despite growing evidence highlighting the importance of mixed income developments, there is limited knowledge of which mixed-income subsidized housing developments contribute more or less determining nearby property values. This study address this gap by examining the impacts of mixed-income subsidized housing developments at various types on nearby apartment property values in Seoul, Korea....
๏ปฟThe purpose of this study is to analyze the characteristics of application of private funds in the supply of rental housing in France, Netherlands and Germany, which are major EU member states. These countries have a long history of supply and operation of rental housing. In particular, not only the public sector but also the private sector plays an important role in the supply of affordable...
