Addressing the Housing Crisis Requires Measures that Transcend Market Logic

Thomas Maloutas, Emeritus Professor of Human Geography and former Director of Research at the National Centre for Social Research (EKKE), explains why the current measures to address the Greek and EU housing crisis are insufficient. Drawing on the Policy Paper he co-authored a few months ago with Dimitra Siatitsa for ELIAMEP entitled “The Housing Problem in the European Union and Greece: Key Dimensions and Policy Responses”, he argues that, while these measures are rooted in market logic, what is actually needed are policies that transcend it

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