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Articles by Frances Brill
A Crisis of Displaceability: Vacancy, Eviction, and the Uneven Geographies of Housing
1 Introduction Housing crisis narratives have become a rallying cry in cities across the world, yet the framings employed in them vary considerably. This variation has significant political implications for whose experience of precarity becomes legible as crisis and for what responses become conceivable (Heslop and Ormerod 2020; Hochstenbach 2025).
How to Make a City into a Firetrap: Relations of Land and Property in the UK's Cladding Scandal
The Implications of the Freeholder–Leaseholder Model in the Cladding Scandal The government's banning of certain types of cladding requires buildings to undergo significant remedial works. At the time of writing this is being part paid by the government (who have issued £5bn of funding to replace external walls that are flammable) and leaseholders (who are liable for internal faults, balconies, and decking).
Governing investors and developers: Analysing the role of risk allocation in urban development
Introduction The provision of affordable, high-quality housing is a problem for cities globally (Wetzstein, 2017). Mitigating the challenges captured under the umbrella of ‘housing crises’, including alleviating poor-quality rental housing, a lack of social housing and difficulties saving for a deposit to buy a home, is deeply entrenched in and impacted by politics (Heslop and Ormerod, 2020).
Governing investors and developers: Analysing the role of risk allocation in urban development
Introduction The provision of affordable, high-quality housing is a problem for cities globally (Wetzstein, 2017). Mitigating the challenges captured under the umbrella of ‘housing crises’, including alleviating poor-quality rental housing, a lack of social housing and difficulties saving for a deposit to buy a home, is deeply entrenched in and impacted by politics (Heslop and Ormerod, 2020).
Book review: Citizenship and Infrastructure: Practices and Identities of Citizens and the State
Newham Greens ( ) Living in Newham and angry about the water outage? So are we . Twitter, . Available at: https://twitter.com/NewhamGreens/status/1313881998927319040 (accessed 8 October 2020).
Africa: What a Failed Johannesburg Project Tells Us About Mega Cities in Africa
Photo: Pixabay Johannesburg, Joburg. analysis By Frances Brill, Trinity College Dublin and Ricardo Reboredo, Ucl Six years ago a major development was announced in South Africa. Billed as a game changer, it was meant to alter the urban footprint of Johannesburg, Africa's richest city, forever. The Modderfontein New City project was launched amid much fanfare, expectation and media hype.
Africa: What a Failed Johannesburg Project Tells Us About Mega Cities in Africa
analysis By Frances Brill, Trinity College Dublin and Ricardo Reboredo, Ucl Six years ago a major development was announced in South Africa. Billed as a game changer, it was meant to alter the urban footprint of Johannesburg, Africa's richest city, forever. The Modderfontein New City project was launched amid much fanfare, expectation and media hype.
Smart cities in developing countries can learn from Johannesburg’s failed “New York of Africa”
Six years ago a major development was announced in South Africa. Billed as a game changer, it was meant to alter the urban footprint of Johannesburg, Africa’s richest city, forever. The Modderfontein New City project was launched amid much fanfare, expectation and media hype. Zendai, a Chinese developer, bought a 1600-hectare site north-east of Johannesburg for the development, which it quickly dubbed as the “New York of Africa”.
What a failed Johannesburg project tells us about mega cities in Africa
Home Earth Environment March 6, 2019 March 6, 2019 by Ricardo Reboredo And Frances Brill, The Conversation An artist’s impression of the failed Modderfontein smart city in Johannesburg. Six years ago a major development was announced in South Africa. Billed as a game changer, it was meant to alter the urban footprint of Johannesburg, Africa's richest city, forever. The Modderfontein New City project was launched amid much fanfare, expectation and media hype.
What a failed Johannesburg project tells us about mega cities in Africa
Six years ago a major development was announced in South Africa. Billed as a game changer, it was meant to alter the urban footprint of Johannesburg, Africa’s richest city, forever. The Modderfontein New City project was launched amid much fanfare, expectation and media hype. Zendai, a Chinese developer, bought a 1600-hectare site north-east of Johannesburg for the development, which it quickly dubbed as the “New York of Africa”.
Osborne's cut to housing benefit will drive young people into homelessness
George Osborne's emergency Budget delivered in many respects, but it failed young people. His plan to cut housing benefit for 18-to-21-year-olds has alarmed people across the housing sector. A Centrepoint study by the University of Cambridge this week showed the number of young homeless people is over 80,000 - three times the amount the Department for Communities and Local Government estimates. One quarter of young people have experienced unsafe homelessness.
Comment: Tory housing plans will not tackle the housing crisis
The UK is gripped by a housing crisis. According to the DCLG, there was a 118,760 housing shortage in 2014. This, in part, has driven huge house price increases: 12% in London and 11% in Bristol last year. Homes are becoming less affordable. The most commonly proposed solution is an increase in housebuilding which will put downward pressure on prices.The new Conservative government promises more homes and more ways of buying these homes.
Comment: Right to Buy might win votes - but it will make the housing crisis worse
Yesterday David Cameron announced an expansion of The Right to Buy. This expansion means the policy now includes housing associations. Some 1.3 million more people will be entitled to buy their social housing. Right to Buy was one of the most successful political strategies of the twentieth century. Granting long term council house tenants the right to buy their homes effectively converted lifelong Labour supporters to vote for Margaret Thatcher and the Conservatives in the 1980s.
Comment: Housing policy can win elections - but only if it has substance
Housing policy can win elections. After the First World War, Homes Fit For Heroes and the Housing Act (1924) were enacted, guaranteeing housing for workers and helping the Conservative vote. In 1945 a Gallup poll showed 54% of people prioritised housing. Within two years, the newly elected Atlee government had created the Town and Country Planning Act (1947) and the New Towns Act (1946).
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