Can we decommercialize housing?

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European cities are a hotbed of real estate speculation and affordable housing is growing out of reach. Millennials and younger will not only not own homes, but are losing their grip on renting.

Guests: Elke Rauth is the editor of the urbanist magazine Dérive, and the co-curator of the urabnize! Festival for urban exploration. She is part of the habiTAT rental house syndicate of the Bikes and Rails House Project in Vienna; a network of self-organised housing projects that aim at buying houses and securing them as self-managed spaces.

Lenke Pálfi and Adél Csűrök are the colleagues of the From Streets to Homes Association, pioneering the Housing First method in Hungary. They help rough sleepers move into affordable rental housing, as well as advocate for affordable rental housing provision to become the institutional, national policy level solution to homelessness.

We meet with them at the Bikes and Rails Housing Project, Vienna

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Creative team Réka Kinga Papp, editor-in-chief Merve Akyel, art director Szilvia Pintér, producer Zsófia Gabriella Papp, executive producer Margarita Lechner, writer-editor Salma Shaka, writer-editor Priyanka Hutschenreiter, project assistant

Management Hermann Riessner managing director Judit Csikós project manager Csilla Nagyné Kardos, office administration

OKTO Crew Senad Hergić producer Leah Hochedlinger video recording Marlena Stolze video recording Clemens Schmiedbauer video recording Richard Brusek sound recording

Postproduction Nóra Ruszkai, lead video editor Réka Kinga Papp, conversation editor

Art Victor Maria Lima, animation Cornelia Frischauf, theme music

Captions and subtitles Julia Sobota Daniela Univazo Mars Zaslavsky Marta Ferdebar Olena Yermakova Farah Ayyash

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