Tag: housing
“Self-Defense on All Levels:” How an Autonomous Athens Neighborhood Beat a €15M Eviction Plan
When a quadcopter’s buzz cuts through the August night above Athens’s Prosfygika housing block, it does not raise eyebrows anymore. In front of the neighborhood’s […]
While Cities Become Assets, We’re Still Fighting for Homes
In several Southern and Eastern European countries—including Croatia, Slovakia, Italy, and Portugal—up to 80% of young adults are unable to leave their childhood homes due […]
Athens Municipality Backs Off from Prosfygika
The self-organized community ends hunger strikes, declares victory, and launches an international mobilization.
Two Friends and 36 Cooperative Houses: The Story of Axuntase
Lifelong friends, Nieves and Mariasun, had speculated on the idea of living together with their families already in the 1980s when they were young, married, raising their children, and trying to break with the traditionalism of the earlier generation.
“Ni tuya ni mía: nuestra casa” 1315 razones para auto-organizarse y luchar ante la crisis de vivienda
CC Asamblea de Vivienda de Villalba Link copied! Este artículo ha sido redactado por unos de sus protagonistas, la Asamblea de Vivienda de Villalba, colectivo […]
The Struggle for Housing From 1315, One of the Largest Organized Squatted Blocks in Spain
In the heart of Collado Villalba, a municipality located in the northwestern mountains of Madrid, forty kilometers from the capital, more than a hundred people survive squatting without water in two blocks of public property.
Housing Politics and Human Response After a Disaster Through the Lens of Anthony Micallef
Marseille has a population of 900,000. I’m trying to tell the story of a part of the Marseillais who will never feature in publications on Instagram or elsewhere, because they don’t fit the image “Marseille bébé” we want to give of the city.
Behind the Venetian Mask: The Battle Between Overtourism and the Right to Live
Venice is a city that floats between two worlds: the imaginary and the real. Today a distance has widened so dramatically between these dimensions that […]
Housing Crisis, One Year On
In June 2021, EU members met in Lisbon to pledge to combat homelessness. They formed a platform whose goal is to eliminate the social blight […]
Urban Landscapes in the 21st Century: Can Eco-Cities Tackle Climate Change and Pollution?
Turning Point talked with municipal officials, grass roots organizers, researchers, and residents in the Middle East, Europe, and the Americas to map out urban strategies for adaptation to climate change and to find out more about the prospects of finding an alternative to the current, ecologically devastating forms of urbanization.