The housing paradox: what can local municipalities do?

The differences between European cities are even larger than between countries – depending on political colours, cities within the same country might have totally different answers to the same challenges.   Here is a short overview of positive examples, i.e. cases where cities achieved success to mitigate or prevent the problems on the housing market – either through subtracting land out of the property market (i.e. limiting speculation) or through creating additional resources to make housing affordable. The sources of the information are international meetings and the very informative book of Patti-Polyák (2017).   Community-led housing models   According to Patti-Polyák a diversity of community ...