The COVID-19 pandemic was not a great ‘equaliser’, but rather an event whose impact intersected with pre-existing inequalities affecting different people, places, and geographic scales. Nowhere is this more apparent than in housing.


Written by an international group of experts, this book casts light on how the virus has impacted the experience of home and housing through the lens of wider urban processes around transportation, land use, planning policy, racism, and inequality. Case studies from around the world examine issues around gentrification, housing processes, design, systems, finance and policy.


Offering crucial insights for reforming cities to be more resilient to future crises, this is an invaluable resource for scholars and policy makers alike.

Contributions by: Alma Clavin, Niamh Moore-Cherry, Carla Maria Kayanan, Faryal Diwan, Samadrita Das, Kamalika Banerjee, Sher Afgan Tareen, Amanda Furiasse, Dennis Archambault, Claudia Sanford, Tam Perry, Rosalie Warnock, Julia de Kadt, Alexandra Parker, Brian Robson, Dillon Newton, Leanne Monchuk, Rachel Armitage, Philip Brown, Yu Wang, Guanyu Jason Ran, Liangni Sally Liu, Lukas Stevens, Wescley Xavier, Luca Maria Francesco Fabris, Federico Camerin, Yuvacan Atmaca, Zeynep Atas, Phil Hubbard, Loretta Lees, Derek Hyra, Rebecca Tunstall