Housing-gap City is a position and a critical tool for framing urban discourses on the politics of dwelling in East Central European cities like Prague.
The research project is an attempt to investigate and imagine a possibility of political and legal turn in how an absent structural system of affordable housing as a public interest can predict the future conditions for architecture and urbanity in Prague.
It reflects the consequences of non-politics of dwelling in post-state-socialist city under contemporary legal gaps along with gaps opening ever more between production and incomes or between price and standard of new entirely private market-generated housing construction. It is a comparative research that addresses the political and legal mechanisms behind forms of large-scale housing projects in European cities where affordable (social, municipal) housing is a standard tool for planning a city.