The United Nation’s Universal Declaration of Human Rights recognises the right to housing as part of the fundamental economic, social, and cultural rights of human beings. However, a housing crisis in London has emerged in recent decades, where problems include shortages of housing supply in sale, private rental, and social housing markets. Housing is more about just brick and mortar - It is a bearer of culture, politics, history and so on.
What was the past, what is the present and what will be the future of housing?
The objective of the exhibition is for the general audience, especially housing policymakers, to gain greater contextual background related to housing research and what a creative future could look like.
The exhibition contains three parts:
This exhbition was funded by Knowledge Exchange and Impact of London School of Economics and Political Science.
Lois Liao is currently a Research Associate at the University of Sheffield and a Visiting Fellow at the Department of Geography and Environment, London School of Economics and Political Science. She completed her PhD at University College London. Her doctoral thesis "Economic and Socio-Psychological Analyses of Social Housing Policies in the U.K." focuses on bringing Bourdieusian theories in understanding social housing policies.
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