The world has still to emerge fully from the housing-triggered Global Financial Crisis, but housing crises are not new. The history of housing shows long-run social progress, littered with major disasters; nevertheless the progress is often forgotten, whilst the difficulties hit the headlines....

Städte und Regionen sind mit einer Vielzahl an Wohnungsfragen konfrontiert: In wachsenden Metropolregionen und Mittelstädten in Deutschland steigen Mieten und Bodenpreise seit Jahren. Andernorts fehlt es vor allem an bedarfsgerechtem Wohnraum. So wird es für weite Teile der Bevölkerung von...

The housing market, like every market, is the product of thousands of interacting buyers and sellers driven by different interests. But unlike other markets, the housing market is able to profoundly transform the socioeconomic structure and the image of a city. Very often, changes in urban space...