Entries tagged ‘Affordable Housing’
-
How India’s Landlords, Both Benevolent and Self-Serving, Create Affordable Housing
Pushed into the real estate business by urbanization, a class of well-connected landlords has found that protecting migrant workers, rather than exploiting them, can reap rewards.
-
While Their City Planned Their Future, They Struck Back With a “People’s Plan”
Created by informal settlers in Manila, the People’s Plan has forced the hand of a president, helped the urban poor organize — and just might keep a community of thousands from breaking apart.
-
Crowded House: Accra Tries to Make Room for a Population Boom
Can Accra build its way out of a housing crisis? In our fourth Forefront of the Informal City Dialogues, Sharon Benzoni wrestles her way through an incredibly crowded city.
-
Behind the Scenes in Bangkok with Still Life Projects
In February, Still Life Projects traveled to Bangkok to shoot two short films for the Informal City Dialogues, one of which documented the lives of two street vendors. Here’s the story of how they met them.
-
Nairobi’s Rent Collectors Find Themselves Stuck Between Two Warring Sides
For “rent agents” like Musa Karanja, collecting money from informal settlers who don’t know whether they’ll soon be evicted is a process of knocking, begging and praying.
-
When City Governments Create Problems By Solving Them
Crackdowns by city authorities can sometimes cause more problems than they fix, as the case of New York’s so-called “illegal hotel operator” illustrates.
With generous support from
