Housing & Real Estate

Bridging critical knowledge and action gaps in urban health: A call for transdisciplinary approaches in urban studies in the era of global population aging and climate change

Build for whom? Contested state entrepreneurialism and the governance of affordable rental housing in Shanghai, China

Social Housing and the 15-Minute City: Project-Level Accessibility to Urban Services in Serbia

Spatiotemporal dynamics of informal settlements across argentine cities: A national-scale analysis

Unveiling episodes of everyday informal politics in internationally funded slum upgrading programs

Selective responsibility: Environmental, social and governance frameworks and the containment of environmental and social harm in urban real estate

Estimating the causal effect of extreme flooding on urban property markets: A case study of Porto Alegre, Brazil

Understanding Leapfrog Development for Better Urban Governance: Agent-Based Modeling and Parcel-Level Evidence

Denser housing, more commodified? Comparing the relationship between densification and the production of (de-)commodified housing in Milan, Oslo and Vienna

The Complex Value of Temporary Communities

Economies of Collective Temporary Occupations in Brussels

Investigating the Links Between Air Pollution, Arnona Property Taxation and Housing Prices: A Hedonic Analysis of the Haifa Housing Market

Pricing urban flood risk: Evidence from the housing market in Beijing

Human–AI Co-Production: Normative Challenges in Public Space Design

Spatiotemporal Evolution and Driving Mechanisms of Cultural Facilities in Nanjing: A POI-Based Analysis

Resisting gentrification: Density of belonging in strangled kampung of BSD City, Indonesia

Beyond the Mega-City Narrative in Urban Informality: Informality and Water Precarity in Jaipur, India

From diagnosis to action: A phased in-situ upgrade framework for informal settlements in Taiz, Yemen

GOVERNING OR MANIPULATING LEVERAGE TO BUILD MORE CITIES? Borrowing in the Shadows by Local Governments and Real Estate Developers in China

SDG 11 Global Synthesis Report 2026

UN-Habitat's periodic review of progress on Sustainable Development Goal 11 (sustainable cities), presented in July 2026; it records some gains but warns the housing crisis threatens overall progress.