Two leading experts analyze how the difficulty of finding a home is eroding the promise of social advancement and threatening the democratic foundation of society.
What began as a metropolitan issue has grown into a crisis affecting almost anyone anywhere, blocking economic change and widening the social gap. Housing is a fundamental human right, yet when homeownership becomes a lottery decided entirely by your social background, the foundational promise of social mobility crumbles.
Senior professors Heinze and Kurtenbach analyze why decades of rising public spending and regulatory measures like rent freezes have fundamentally failed to alleviate the crisis. They expose how systemic real estate dysfunction restricts professional mobility, erodes trust in political institutions, and destroys neighborhood cohesion, concluding with an urgent call for new cross-sector alliances to rescue civic stability.
