Home in Common: Decentralizing Domesticity

As the homeownership models that sustained previous generations slip further out of reach, more and more people are left in a precarious relationship with domestic space—locked out by the shifting tides of the housing market. Vancouver, Canada is a case in point: repeatedly touted as among the world’s most ‘liveable’ cities, it is paradoxically also one of the most unaffordable for owning a home. Its housing remedies rely on conservative, nostalgic models of ownership—in turn largely failing to impact the interrelated problems of scarcity, homogeneity and unaffordability. Rather, the very nature and meaning of ‘home’ itself needs a more fundamental remodeling: from homes in isolation to Home in Common.

Volume Editors
Amir Ameri & Rebecca O'Neal Dagg

ISBN
978-1-944214-14-2