Human rights
Housing
The right to secure housing is recognized under international law, yet most states are failing dismally to respect this most basic of rights.
Here we delve into the root causes of global housing inequality and put forward solutions to deliver truly affordable housing for all. Our coverage also explores how communities and social movements are resisting evictions, gentrification and social cleansing.
Through thought-provoking dispatches and comment pieces we explore alternative housing initiatives, even reimagining a world without landlords.
Agony Uncle: Am I contributing to gentrification?
‘I was pushed out due to rising rents; now I'm inflicting the same on others. What should I do?’ Our in-house ethics advisor chips in.
Housing is a circus
A new aerial cabaret show explores the housing crisis and the debts of home. Amy Hall reports.
Can’t pay, won’t pay
The Covid-19 crisis has triggered an international rent strike. Amy Hall reports on the housing activists hoping to build strong networks of solidarity as financial crisis and mass evictions loom.
How private equity eroded the right to housing
The UN expert on housing explains how, almost overnight, private equity firms became the biggest landlords in the world.
You’ll never edit Grenfell
The LRB’s Andrew O’Hagan can’t rewrite the Grenfell narrative, argues rapper Potent Whisper.
Priced out no more: how a London group defied gentrification
Radical plans might transform the way we approach development. Alessio Perrone reports.
Watch: Grenfell community’s Silent Walk for justice
Last weekend, a silent march commemorated the victims of the tragedy and demanded justice. Pablo Navarrete reports.
Community action for affordable London homes
An inner-city neighbourhood in north London has a radical plan to fight gentrification, writes Alessio Perrone.
Finding home: Lack of affordable housing is a crisis across the West
With house prices and rents soaring, can there be a remedy to homelessness? Wayne Ellwood investigates.
Then & Now
A photographic account of changes over the years in: housing; water; education; health; sanitation; food and farming; technology; and women.
Flooded out, then priced out: Katrina’s legacy 10 years on
The rebuilding of New Orleans has made the city unaffordable for locals, writes Sarah Shearman.
London mums evicted – but not beaten
The fight for housing justice in the capital will continue, says Liam Barrington-Bush.
Resisting evictions Spanish style
The fallout the property bubble is mass homelessness. Melissa García Lamarca records how public anger has galvanized the movement for housing justice.
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A counterfeit life in a Philippines slum
Informal dwellers are struggling to survive in Metro Manila, says Iris Gonzales.
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A tsunami of demolitions
Africa’s squatters are up against ruthless state power. *Andrew Meldrum* reports on Harare and beyond.
The lease on life
*Richard Swift* meets the determined squatters of Bangkok who don’t know the meaning of the word eviction.
Welcome to Squatter Town
By 2030 there will be over two billion squatters worldwide. Richard Swift reports on their attempt to carve out their own piece of urban space.
Urban Explosion: the facts
For the first time in human history most of us live in cities: many in desperate conditions. The *NI* takes the measure of urban growth and poverty.
