Un tetto a New York. Tre storie indiziarie sulla questione abitativa nella città neoliberale

Abstract

On the basis of three narratives that the author followed during a research stay as Visiting Research Fellow at CUNY the City University of New York, whose focus of study was Understanding Housing Dynamics: Frictions and Potentialities in Policies and Practices, the book brings back to the Italian debate some of the nodes of the housing issue as it is configured today in New York, proposing a mapping of the policies and programmes that address it, in order to elaborate a learning exercise from/with a decentralised perspective. The narratives also provide an opportunity to reflect on the management of affordability - reaffirmed as the primary objective of housing policy - around which to question the role of communities, the new postures of advocacy planning, social polarisations and spatial rights. Articulated in three parts that circumscribe a field of reflection straddling the pandemic as a moment that exacerbated certain features of the housing emergency, the book proposes a methodological lesson for Housing Studies in a comparative perspective.