At @housing-studies.bsky.social conference in Sheffield Monday 20 April, in Value and Viability, workshop 1F, I'll be revealing the latest development viability dodges and explaining why affordable housing is to blame for a crisis of affordability #HSA2026
The Myth of Affordable Housing will be published by Routledge on 19 March. I would like to encourage journals to review the book.
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Strategies to discount the price of housing operate in reverse relationship with the value of labour. The better-off benefit first and do so in descending order from financier to landowner to developer to builder to realtor to landlord to household.
Affordable housing makes housing unaffordable.
www.routledge.com/The-Myth-of-...
'The Myth of Affordable Housing' demonstrates the failure of price to effectively fulfil socially needed goals. The displacement of need by affordability has made market price the standard against which all goals are valued. It is this act of valuation that guides the book’s critique.
'The Myth of Affordable Housing' is a critique of the abject failure of affordable housing policies to address a global crisis of need. It will be published by Routledge in March this year. You can read the first two chapters free on criticalplace.org.uk
