Shaking Up the City critically examines many of the concepts and categories within
mainstream urban studies that serve dubious policy agendas. Through a combination of …

Rent control is a highly debated social policy that has been omnipresent since World War I.
Since the 2010s, it is experiencing a true renaissance, for many cities and countries facing …

Housing is a fundamental right and a vital determinant of health. Health equity is not
possible without widespread access to safe, affordable, high-quality housing. Local housing …

The (re-) introduction of tenancy regulation in the form of rent controls, tenant protection or
supply rationing is back on the agenda of policymakers in light of rent inflation in many …

In the context of chronic problems with high housing costs, rent regulation has returned to
the forefront of policy debate in several countries. This paper addresses three distinct …

Among the first concepts often taught in traditional economics classes are the notions that
the minimum wage tends to reduce employment and that rent regulation tends to reduce …

Hegemonic responses to housing crises overwhelmingly rely on liberal economic logics,
which preclude understandings of housing inequalities as produced by intersecting …

“Moving people involuntarily from their homes or neighborhoods is wrong. Regardless of
whether it results from government or private market action, forced displacement is …

The concept of location affordability holds that housing affordability should be augmented to
include transportation cost as a related and substantial household cost burden. The recent …

Most research on rent-control laws has come from economics literature, where it is often
referenced in introductory texts as a classic case of an ineffective and counterproductive …