... Across the world, property prices in the inner city are spiking, forcing poor and middle-class residents out of their communities. World Policy Journal asked a panel of four experts how governments can work with the private sector to ensure that cities maintain genuinely affordable housing...

... down the human rights abuses in friendly countries such as Iran and Pakistan. He was the prime White House voice for secretly arming the mujahidin to fight the Soviets in Afghanistan, even before the Red Army invaded. It was he who persuaded Carter to block Vance's instinct to complete what the Soviets...

... squalor. Copyright © 2016 World Policy Institute 2016 India Mumbai Dharavi urban studies development housing zoning COURTESY OF RAHUL SRIVASTAVA/URBZ COURTESY OF RAHUL SRIVASTAVA/URBZ MUMBAI—A little over half of Mumbai’s nearly 12 million residents live in communities...

... Barcelona evictions mortgage crisis foreclosures indignados housing PORTFOLIO Ciutat Meridiana, a historically marginalized neighborhood in DOI: 10.1215/07402775-3545894 Barcelona, is isolated from the rest of the city by a freeway. 58 WORLD POLICY...

...Heidi Brown What followed was a dizzying series of events: an anonymous payment of the House’s tax bill by a businessman known to have connections to Putin (House directors say he revealed himself to them but requested anonymity); Shevchuk, on camera, mocking a friendly telegram he received from...

... government that long assumed issues could be resolved by simply replacing settlers with Algerians. After the French fled the country in 1962, the government ignored bigger problems. It assumed the housing stock left behind would be sufficient to meet local demand, and it maintained the legacy of the colonial...

... mediate an year before the president had solemnly end to the war. If Germany would only con­ stated that he could not “consent to any fide in him, he had plaintively written to abridgement of the rights of American citi­ his closest counselor, Edward M. House, zens in any respect...

... inspired lower floating interest rates on housing mortgages and lower credit card interest rates. Both were critical for propping up the consumer economy. Unlike in the United States and much of Western Europe, monetary policy's “transmission mechanism” remained functional in Australia as liquidity did...

... of • the ruling elite commonly held that Anglo- On a grim wet January day just a century Saxons were programmed as if by Provi­ ago, Queen Victoria lay dying at Osbourne dence to govern, and that wars were a bio­ House. It proved a tableau worthy of the oc­ logical mechanism for determining the fit­ casion...

...-entry in mind, is housed at John Jay’s Prisoner Re-entry Institute. Re-entry . It sounds so seamless, like you’ve temporarily left home and are now just re-entering it, ready to pick up where you left off. But the process is anything but simple. It’s a dramatic coming-back-to-life, a strenuous...

... and temporary use provisos for derelict properties. The lessons from Berlin: embrace the night and reconfigure space. Unsurprisingly, the property came into developers’ sights, and the city proposed turning about a third of it into housing and commercial buildings. Since the plans envisioned hundreds...

... that their rebellion against Votes in 2003 by both Senate and House Spanish rule was nearing victory when that to lift a longstanding travel ban (reinstated U.S. battleship blew up (cause still un­ in conference at the behest of the White known) in Havana harbor in 1898. In the House), a reorienting...

... to disperse crowds, and beat villagers, sometimes with batons that deliver electric shocks. A joint force of about 150 members drawn from the police, the army, and the Royal Gendarmerie burned 80 houses and demolished another 26 homes. “They used a type of fire gun to shoot flames to burn down...

... there, and a community of artists who had installed themselves in warehouses around the periphery. But now, a visitor emerging from the vast warren of the Westfield Stratford shopping center, after walking past some new office blocks and rather dubious student housing, will find the park is well used and friendly...

... International Law and the Pinochet Case Susan W altz International law, so runs a common cri­ appeals are underway, but the general has tique, is imprecise, unenforceable, and ir­ been ruled fit to stand trial. He was placed relevant. Realists have long been skeptical under house arrest...

.... The travelers belonged to a subculture that was routinely pushed around by heavy-handed law enforcement, and whose fate was directly shaped by the effects of public order and housing legislation. There is no clear originating moment in New Age Traveler history. They emerged slowly from the British...

... only a few miles from the city center. Down a narrow, pot-marked dirt road, her home is a single-story concrete house behind a concrete wall. A spare metal gate in front bears a green stamp that means it's habitable, that it survived the earthquake. Inside, Delourdes shares two simple rooms with her...

... alized distrust of “nationalistic” (read also dents can do so only through enormous ef­ “unilateral”) initiatives on the global scene. fort. And even then, the White House is not In terms of international politics, Europeans always successful in convincing the rest of tend to see legitimacy...