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Collectivity - Pier Vittorio Aureli et al. - Promised Land: Housing from Commodification to Cooperation

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The Original Sin When addressing contemporary housing crises, it is common for architects, planners, and the public to refer to a shortage of affordable housing and social housing. What often goes missing in this assessment is the very origin of this crisis, which coincides with the long and controversial process of the privatization of land. To put it bluntly: there is no housing affordability without access to land. The privatization of land is nothing new: it is and has always been a legalized theft perpetrated by landlords with the active support of the state. The legalized theft of…

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