Urban Housing & Land Justice: Equitable Access to Sustainable Land, Housing & Services

This master track will focus on understanding, applying, and evaluating how the right to land, housing and urban services can be achieved.
Access for all to affordable housing and accompanying basic social, economic and physical infrastructure and services, such as schools, health centres, employment opportunities, public transport and public space, remains a global challenge rooted in unequal access to land. The result is often seen in processes of urban socio-spatial segregation and exclusion, urban poverty and homelessness across the global north and south.The Urban Housing and Land Justice: Equitable Access to Sustainable Land, Housing & Services programme is a master track within the MSc in Urban Management and Development. The programme focuses on understanding and evaluating the complex processes of providing and financing equitable access to land, adequate housing and urban services. It investigates processes and structures behind such provision with a human-right perspective. Land and housing rights are at the centre of the theoretical underpinnings related to socio-spatial justice, urban inclusion, and tenure security.