While studying abroad at SIT: IHP: Cities in the 21st Century I created three group presentations on the theme of housing. In Buenos Aires, we highlighted how empty, buildings, spatial inequities, and a lack of legal protections for renters created a lack of affordable housing for residents. In Barcelona, we focused on the debate over rent control and how perspectives differed due to ideology: neoliberal capitalistic view of housing vs. a view of housing as a human right. In Cape Town, we found that spatial apartheid-era injustices were the main contributor to housing affordability and noted the similarities between direct action activism strategies in both Barcelona and Cape Town.

Completed

Erika Chung (Harvard ’26) and Zakkai Mares-Van Praag (Haverford ’26)

February – May 2025

Here are my presentations from my study abroad case studies. They are organized in chronological order from left to right, with Buenos Aires being the first presentation and the Cape Town and Barcelona Comparative presentation being the final. Click full screen to view each presentation in full.