By Fei Li Like most megacities, London faces a persistent housing crisis. In 2017, the median housing price to earnings ratio in London ranged from 9.7 in the high poverty, east London borough of Tower Hamlets, to 40.7 in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea. The Ipsos MORI Political Monitor Survey in recent years shows that around one third of respondents in … [Read more...] about PLANNED AFFORDABILITY: INCLUSIONARY HOUSING IN LONDON
WHATEVER THE PROBLEM, THE SOLUTION IS LUXURY DEVELOPMENT: NEW YORK CITY’S 21ST CENTURY PLANNING
By Samuel Stein New York boosters sometimes call their city “the real estate capital of the world.” By 2016 its buildings and land were worth over $1 trillion, representing a hike of more than 10 percent over the previous year. The real estate sector is the largest contributor to the New York metropolitan gross domestic product, one of the city’s major employers and by far … [Read more...] about WHATEVER THE PROBLEM, THE SOLUTION IS LUXURY DEVELOPMENT: NEW YORK CITY’S 21ST CENTURY PLANNING
HOW PLANNING IMPACTS HOUSING AFFORDABILITY IN THE RESURGENT CITY
A number of presentations at the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning 59th Annual Conference last year in Buffalo, New York, placed attention on urban resurgence as a process that is often incomplete, constantly ongoing, and always unevenly distributed in terms of who wins and who loses. One session in particular focused on the interactions of "planning practice with … [Read more...] about HOW PLANNING IMPACTS HOUSING AFFORDABILITY IN THE RESURGENT CITY
INTRODUCING THE INDIGENOUS PLANNING COLLECTIVE
By Sean Robin As Maori planning scholar and practitioner Hirini Magunga puts it, “Indigenous planning has always existed. Indigenous communities predate colonialism and were planned according to their own traditions and sets of practice.” [1] However, indigenous planning had long been pushed to the margins of planning within the settler-colonial United States. One effort … [Read more...] about INTRODUCING THE INDIGENOUS PLANNING COLLECTIVE
JUST HOUSING AS AN INTERSECTIONAL STRUGGLE
This article is a section of a report produced by the Right to the City Alliance entitled "Communities over Commodities: People-Driven Alternatives to an Unjust Housing System”. It has been reprinted with permission. To access the complete report, please visit: https://righttothecityalliance.salsalabs.org/communitiesovercommoditiesreportdownload/index.html We see the … [Read more...] about JUST HOUSING AS AN INTERSECTIONAL STRUGGLE