Angesichts stetig steigender Mieten in den Großstädten stehen zunehmend Vermieter im Fokus öffentlicher und politischer Diskussionen. Selbst eine Enteignung großer privater Wohnungsgesellschaften in Berlin wird mittlerweile von einer Bürgerinitiative gefordert. Durch die Überführung der...

New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) tenants' health are put at risk by the policies and practices of the government. Public housing tenants receive unequal treatment when compared to tenants in private housing in obtaining repairs and preventing dangerous conditions. These conditions include...

Two recent decisions of the Chief Justice of the BC Supreme Court, Evans (2016) and Brett (2020), introduced a dangerous new idea into homeless encampment jurisprudence: that the purportedly private character of encampment sites determines both that defendants’ Charter rights are not engaged...

Die kommunalen Wohnungsgesellschaften in Deutschland verfügen noch über einen Bestand von 2,3 Millionen Wohnungen. Diese Wohnungen befinden sich vor allem in Großstädten, womit auch der kommunale Wohnungsbestand vom Immobilienmarktboom seit 2000 profitiert. In den 2000er Jahren wurde der...

The United Kingdom’s housing costs are among the highest on earth, and London is virtually the most expensive major city in the world for renting or buying a home. People often avoid moving to work in productive sectors because nearby housing is too expensive. The proportion of Britons who...

This essay outlines how the UK’s land-use policies and fiscal incentives distort the housing market, while the planning system adversely affects housebuilding and home-ownership. Most policies to date have been ineffective and welfare-reducing, if not outright amplifying the problems...

Die kommunalen Wohnungsgesellschaften in Deutschland verfügen noch über einen Bestand von 2,3 Millionen Wohnungen. Diese Wohnungen befinden sich vor allem in Großstädten, womit auch der kommunale Wohnungsbestand vom Immobilienmarktboom seit 2000 profitiert. In den 2000er Jahren wurde der...

The cooperative model has become a reliable option to correct or soften the alienating features and dominance of private and public orientations to individual and social development. Proponents advocate that greater cooperation can build stronger communities that foster social cohesion and...

The built environment is characterized by man-made physical features that make it difficult for certain individuals — often poor people and people of color — to access certain places. Bridges were designed to be so low that buses could not pass under them in order to prevent people of color...

Happiness sums up people's attainments from living. Economics is concerned largely with prosperity as the material contributor to happiness. Prosperity is a relative term rather than an absolute one. Prosperity level can be defined as the feasible material standard of living that an economy can...