Malgorzata TOMCZAK
Housing architecture
"Housing is a right, not a commodity"
We know this slogan, in recent times it has been on the banners of various political programs. At the beginning of the political transformation in the field of housing policy, we adopted a free-market pattern, which led us to increasingly restrict the availability of urban residents to their own M. This "invisible hand of the market" is constantly raising prices resulting, among other things, from the fact that supply is increasingly unable to keep up with demand, and any apartment, regardless of quality, sells virtually on the stump.
How to look for and demand good architecture in such a socio-economic model? From whom to demand it? It would be naive to think that it depends solely on the talent of architects - they do not operate in a world abstracted from politics and economics. All the more, of course, we appreciate those who succeed. But there is no elaborate mechanism or tools at work here to make quality assurance a standard. So maybe let's step back a bit, go back to the idea of cooperatives that we know, if only from the communist era, and develop it.
Mateusz Cyganek in his text "Stockholmshusen: effective cooperative housing" describes how the Swedes dealt with the problem of accessibility and quality of housing. Jakub Krzysztofik, in turn, instructs how to set up a housing cooperative. Local governments that want to retain residents and depend on their taxes are realizing that they have the tools to shape accessible housing policy.
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