... or alternative housing for many displaced residents. The project is intended to create modern new districts as part of a national economic agenda, but it risks erasing the unique cosmopolitan character of the Red Sea port city. At the end of January 2022, the conditions for compensation for the loss...

... pandemic cities urban planning labor housing transportation On March 23, 2020, the city of Toronto declared a state of emergency as the COVID-19 pandemic precipitated sudden and dramatic changes in urban life around the world. Initially, the city became eerily quiet. Public transit ridership fell...

... transnationalism is entangled with urban transformations in the Philippines. The diaspora has an important role in the production of urban spaces, where houses, condominium units, and other structures are not just profit-driven investments, but are intimately linked to aspirations and dreams anchored in diasporic...

... through mergers and acquisitions. Underperforming banks and financial institutions had to be shut down. But the most dramatic changes happened in the labor market. © 2022 by The Regents of the University of California 2022 South Korea inequality labor real estate housing Asian financial...

...Caroline Wanjiku Kihato; Sarah de Villiers; Sumayya Mohamed; Bonolo Mohulatsi Densely populated informal housing has mushroomed in formerly segregated South African townships, attracting migrants who survive on the edges of the economy, excluded from basic services. In the pandemic, they have been...

...Xuefei Ren Comparing China, India, and Brazil reveals that current housing policies in all three countries have produced new forms of exclusion for inhabitants of informal settlements. © 2020 Current History. All rights reserved. 2020 The Regents of the University of California China...

... History. All rights reserved. 2018 The Regents of the University of California Douglas Massey Jacob Rugh African Americans Hispanics United States Great Recession Great Depression racism discrimination segregation housing policy redlining predatory lending debt foreclosure...

... informal settlements population political parties elections evictions housing See, here in Ghana we do not use terms like the poor political party activist Bright Dzila explained to me in a 2012 interview about Accra s largest squatter settlement, Old Fa- dama. That is what outsiders use, NGO...

... circulating in Port-au- Prince. The continued presence of NGOs since the mid- 1990s, and their hiring of staff (mainly expatriates) with salaries several times greater than the Haitian government s pay scale, put pressure on the local housing market, particularly after the earthquake. The anthropologist...

... Pamela Starr Pena Nieto Mexico reform Aztec tiger pacto Caldero PAN PRI Fox PRD incentives Mota president teacher union energy Federal Electoral Institute Obrador housing security 2013 51 President Enrique Peña Nieto s first year in office (he was inaugurated in Decem-ber...