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Governing the Homeless in an Age of Compassion

Homelessness, Citizenship, and the 10-Year Plan to End Homelessness in King County Washington – By Tony Sparks: [Abstract] In 2001, President Bush announced his intention to “end chronic homeless by the year 2012” as part of his broad “Compassion Agenda”. Since then, departmental consolidation, changes in funding allocation, and continued decentralization of services provision have […]

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Cooperativización: algunas aproximaciones a las relaciones actuales entre Estado capitalista y sectores subalternos

Por Mariana Giaretto: “El análisis de las relaciones entre Estado y clases subalternas a partir de experiencias concretas de tomas de tierras urbanas nos ha permitido identificar a la cooperativización como un proceso en el que se entrelazan complejamente tanto mecanismos estatales de dispersión del conflicto social como estrategias de subsistencia de los sectores populares.” […]

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The Urban Roots of Financial Crises:

Reclaiming the City for Anti-Capitalist Struggle By David Harvey: [ABSTRACT] Property market booms and busts are inextricably intertwined with speculative financial flows and these booms and busts have serious consequences for the macro-economy in general as well as all manner of externality effects upon resource depletion and environmental degradation. Property booms and capitalist crises also […]

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Vivienda Social en Europa desde 1945

Por Luis Moya y otros: OBJETO DEL TRABAJO: – El trabajo presente es una reflexión colectiva de profesores de disciplinas complementarias dentro de la arquitectura, sobre la vivienda social europea de los países considerados como avanzados en este campo. Nuestro objetivo es aprender de ellos, adaptando lo positivo, no repitiendo lo negativo, y aportando nuevas […]

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De-commodifying Housing

The Realignment Project: Introduction: – If the Great Recession has one common thread that links the U.S, much of the E.U (Ireland, Spain, the U.K), and the rest of the world, it’s our common mistake of treating housing as a speculative commodity whose purpose is to create profits for investors, rather than structures that serve […]

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Council housing isn’t welfare

By John Perry: As part of the authoritarian crackdown following last week’s riots, David Cameron announced on Friday that rioters should be evicted from their council houses – even though the only thing that we know for sure about the connection between riots and where people live is that some of the disturbances happened in […]

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