Dignified Housing (in Times of Pandemic and Beyond)

Essay, expanding design practices, Kathrin Golda-Pongratz, No Density, Politics and economics

Affordable Housing, Alternative Domesticity, Architecture&nature, Built environment, Capitalism, Cities, Construction, Economy, Environment, Essay, Ethical Values, Health crisis, Housing, Human rights, Inequality, Lima, Neighborhood, Peripheries, Perú, Quality of Life, Reconstruction, Social impact, Spain, urban, Urban strategy

Originally published in The Conversation España.
Translation: Sigrid Ehrmann

Photography: Kathrin Golda-Pongratz

To prevent the pandemic from further spreading, governments in recent weeks started to enforce lockdowns and ordered people to #stayhome or #quedateencasa. All of a sudden, we have become involuntarily confined to our home, regardless of its characteristics, number of inhabitants, or location.