A home of one’s own is best built with the help of others. Samir Jeraj outlines three models of housing that can beat the tyranny of the marketplace.
The roof over your head has gone from being a home to an asset. Since the political dismantling of the idea of society in the 1980s, governments have privatized social housing, deregulated the rental market and pumped up the housing market, with disastrous consequences.
Now, with traditional home ownership in crisis, what are the possible alternatives? They are, as ever, social – and collective.
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