This book offers a cross-national perspective on contemporary urban renewal in relation to social rental housing. Social housing estates - as developed either by governments (public housing) or not-for-profit agencies (housing associations) - emerged out of post-war urban renewal programmes and...

Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Redevelopment Frontiers in Buenos Aires -- Chapter 3. Becoming a “Socially Integrated City” through “Creative Districts” -- Chapter 4. From Villa to Barrio -- Chapter 5. Neoliberal Governance and Chicago’s Southwest Side -- Chapter 6. Chicago’s...

Institutional crises have been continuously embeded in weak accountability. In Latin America, human rights' violations catalyze the outcomes of such crises. In the aim of understanding the housing crisis, this research evidenced a vicious cycle in Brazil and Chile: despite the creation of...

Während in der ökonomischen Literatur Immobilienpreise hauptsächlich mit Ausstattungsmerkmalen erklärt werden, wird die Frage nach dem Einfluss der Anbieterform erstaunlich selten gestellt. Dies ist umso bemerkenswerter, da Anbietereinflüsse in öffentlichen Debatten, z.B. über die...