I knew it was going to be ugly, no one had tackled the shed for close to two decades. The last time I had looked…
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According to a new report by the Homes for All Campaign of Right to the City, the same destructive speculative forces that produced the U.S. foreclosure crisis has…
Over the past few months, I have been learning to build a house alongside a new friend, Torsten Ottesjö, architect, lumberjack and pedagogue in carpentry…
What makes a neighborhood an awesome place to live? Is it proximity to cool coffee shops? Or to lovely public parks? While those are beautiful…
Just south of London’s financial district, on the other side of the Thames River stands the Heygate estate, a mammoth public housing block that once…
My son Nelson has been studying at the Univerisdad Complutense, the largest public university in Spain with 75,000 students. He has been in Madrid since…
Over the past several weeks, residents of the Ethelred Estate – a 900-unit housing estate situated just south of the Thames river in the London…
Estate by Fugitive Images, Paul Hallam, Victor Buchli, Andrea Luka Zimmerman, Lasse Johansson, Tristan Fennell Paperback, 152 pages Published September 24th 2010 Please buy direct…
In 2003, at the peak of the market, my parents proudly bought their first home. We’re quite a large family—5 kids total, and you have…
A piece of my heart will always live in Glasgow. It is a city of incredible warmth and beauty and humour, one that welcomed me…
Albert Lowe wrote such a useful comment on Andrea’s DIT article on How to Research a Slumlord, that I turned it into a post here. …
Andrea Gibbons, among other things, established SAJE's Research Department with some path-breaking work that uncovered an invisible criminal slumlord empire just by digging into the information...
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Who Let All These Housing Folks Into the Federal Reserve Bank? It was a real event. Gathered together at the Federal Reserve Bank, just a…