housing
Platform capitalism and short term rentals are boosting housing commodification and urban financialization. Worldwide, struggles for the right to housing and the city are fighting back, expanding knowledge and building tools to address the impacts of temporary rentals. I talked about this with Katalin Gennburg, Member of Die Linke in the Berlin House of Representatives, philosopher and researcher of urban…
Burning Farm, June 2024 A growing number of people are facing a shortage of affordable and adequate housing. The gap between salaries and housing costs has widened over the past decades as housing costs and real estate values increased, also thanks the residualization neglect of public housing and to a shift in public policies ultimately aimed at creating the framework…
Contemporary phenomena and strategies of living in Italy. Edited by Michael Obrist, Antonietta Putzu, Park Books 2023 Too many tourists Bottle caps fill the cracks between the cobblestones in the streets of Trastevere, once an infamous neighbourhood, in the heart of Rome. Tourists flock to bars and restaurants, crowding the winding alleyways and banging trolleys up and down narrow staircases to…
in Open for Maintenance/Wegen Umbau geöffnet, German Pavillion, Venice Architecture Biennale 2023 Catalogue I grew up in a tiny apartment in Rome that my father adapted over the years to accommodate the growing family. He built the furniture himself, each piece fitting the others to make use of all the space available, not unlike a sailboat. One day, when I…
FARSANG spoke to Sarah to discuss the housing crisis as well as phenomena such as Airbnb, gentrification, and ‘sustainable tourism’. FARSANG Journal: Thanks for joining us. To start with, how did you start focusing on urban issues and housing? How did this journey begin? Sarah Gainsforth: It began from two separate experiences. The first is that I have personally experienced housing issues:…