Sep 09, 2007Workfare, Housing, Conferences, 2005, Books

Andrej Holm: Hartz IV und die Konturen einer neoliberalen Wohnungspolitik (2005)

What follows is an analysis by Andrej Holm on the emerging of a neoliberal housing regime in Germany - part and parcel of the new workfare regime....

Aug 03, 2007Security, Housing

Nik Theodore and Ryan Hollon on non-state forms of policing in Chicago

Our friend Nik Theodore and Ryan Hollon talk about non-state forms of policing in the Chicago public housing market (external link to the Chicago...

Apr 27, 2007Conferences, 2003, Workfare, Housing, Books

Jacqueline Leavitt: Jobs and Public Housing - Old Programs and New Paradigms

Public housing in the United States and Los Angeles began as a jobs program but job training programs are a relatively recent intervention in public...

Apr 13, 2007Security, Urbanization, Workfare, Housing, Books

Review: Living and Working on the edge

Eick, Volker/Sambale, Jens (Hg): Sozialer Wohnungsbau, Arbeitsmarkt(re)integration und der neoliberale Wohlfahrtsstaat in der Bundesrepublik und...

Apr 29, 2006Urbanization, Homelessness, Housing

Jens Sambale / Volker Eick 2005: Das Berliner Ghetto - ein Missverständnis

Recent events (fall 2005) around Paris and France in general triggered a curious interest in Berlin-based journalists from the anglo-saxon press:...