Effective democracy requires participation. However, the history of urban politics, housing policy, and neighborhood revitalization has demonstrated that wealth and power often overshadow participation and community activism. Proponents of equity planning and advocacy planning in the USA have...

Institutions for housing subsidization are an important type of institutions for redistribution. They are dominated by public housing and social housing, which are characterized by (1) public ownership or social ownership, (2) management board not held accountable to the recipients, and (3)...

With the 2015 issuance of the final rules for Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing (AFFH), jurisdictions that receive funding from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) are now provided with data and tools necessary to conduct the analysis of fair housing issues specific to...

This paper explores the responses to the housing crisis in Dublin, Ireland, by analyzing recent housing policies promoted to prevent family homelessness. I argue private rental market subsides have played an increasing role in provision of social housing in Ireland. Instead of policies that...

At the request of the Government of Egypt (GOE), the objective of this brief note is to provide concise recommendations on next steps for the National Housing Program (NHP). These recommendations and policy analysis are an elaboration of the framework for housing policy reform in urban areas in...

House prices have increased faster than average income in many countries over the last decade, raising concerns on the affordability of housing. We study the impact of transaction taxes on the real estate market and the effectiveness of tax subsidies to make housing more affordable. We show how...

Egypt's Housing Crisis takes presidential speeches, parliamentary reports, legislation, and official statistics as the basis with which to investigate the tools that officials have used to "solve" the housing crisis - rent control, social housing, and amnesties for informal self-building - as...

Rent controls are firmly back on the political agenda. At the national level the reintroduction of rent controls is now official Labour Party policy. At the London level Mayor Sadiq Khan calls for their reintroduction as well. Politicians, however, are in this case merely following a shift in...