Entries tagged ‘Real Estate’
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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.
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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.
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Airbnb Ruled Illegal in New York
The popular apartment-sharing website was ruled illegal in New York City today, a win for the city’s ledger and a loss for the informal economy.
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Where the New India Rises, a Highway Divides Eras and Economies
In Sriperumbudur, the NH4 highway divides a town: Thatched roofs and mud roads on one side, powerful corporations on the other, with workers moving, sometimes uneasily, between the two worlds.
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A Covert Operation to Keep Lima’s Construction Workers Well-Fed
She isn’t a contractor, an architect or a carpenter, yet Maritsa has found a way to cash in on her city’s frenetic construction boom: By feeding its workers, one meal at a time.
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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.
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