With a new recession looming, and an already massive housing crisis, tenants are building towards new models of social solidarity.
Illustration & Data Visualization by Olga Souri / Noucmas
“Not all quarantines are the same. This family allowed me to take a picture of the only window in their semi-basement studio, we also talked for a while. Their house is 28 square meters, the wife was working in a cafe which has closed [due to the pandemic], the husband was laid off shortly before the [COVID-19] crisis began, he was working for a security company and is still waiting to receive compensation. They have two children, aged three and nine. They own a very old TV, they don’t have an…
A market that is controlled but not regulated will not serve those who are unable to pay.
Illustration & Data Visualization by Olga Souri / Noucmas
There isn’t a single neighborhood in Attiki where someone earning the minimum wage for a 40-hour workweek can afford a two-bedroom home at market rent.
As part of AthensLive’s investigation into rent affordability, we looked into rental prices across the region of Attiki, acquired from the national E-Real Estates network, and captured details of more than 17,000 rental properties that were advertised on spitogatos.gr — one of Greece’s leading real estate websites — on a single day. By mapping these against Greece’s minimum wage, we found that 0% are actually affordable.
He fled Afghanistan in 2016. Now he is rebuilding his life in Athens.
This is the second story from our profile video project following young refugees who fled war in the Middle East and are now trying to move on with their lives in Greece.
I first met Elias in June 2018. It was my first editorial meeting with the multilingual newspaper Migratory Birds as the coordinator of the project. He was an old and experienced member already, calm and kind as always.
When he and his family made it to Greece’s mainland in 2016, they stayed in the refugee camp of Lavrio, a sea-port town in the southeastern part of Attica…
A data-driven research into housing financialization in Greece and the restructuring of the country by the markets, accompanied by an open dataset.
Illustration & Data Visualization by Olga Souri
The home of a six-member family in Marathonas was to be auctioned off online on September 18 for €68,000. That’s the lowest price any potential bidder had to pay for a 125 square feet house in the northeastern suburbs of Athens. In April 2018, the house was set on fire while the family was trying to warm themselves with a stove. After a couple of days in the hospital, the father of the family succumbed to burn injuries. …
The world’s most popular short-term rental platform and how it is affecting our neighborhoods explained visually.
Airbnb has effectively created a new category of rental housing. This new category — called ‘short-term rentals’ — exemplifies a software-driven, platform-mediated market that occupies the gap between traditional residential rental housing and hotel accommodation.
A prime example of the corporate sharing economy, the American company operates an online marketplace and — with nearly 5 million listings in 81,000 cities and over 300 million check-ins — it has established itself as the world’s largest peer-to-peer hospitality intermediary. Guests benefit from the ease of use, decent rates, access to peer reviews, and a variety of housing options in neighborhoods not traditionally…
An interview with British artist Michael Landy on his first exhibition in Greece entitled “BREAKING NEWS — ATHENS.”
Michael Landy is one of the Young British Artists. He is best known for the performance piece installation Break Down (2001), in which he destroyed all his possessions, and for the Art Bin project at the South London Gallery. For “BREAKING NEWS — ATHENS,” he invites the Greek public to express what Athens means to them, by portraying the life of the city as seen by its inhabitants and visitors. The exhibition opens on Thursday 30 March, at the Diplarios School in Athens.
Full interview transcript:
The idea behind the exhibition
The exhibition is called “BREAKING NEWS — ATHENS” and it’s commissioned by NEON. I am asking…
Sotiris Sideris
Data journalist & co-founder @AthensLiveGr . Fellow @BerthaFN & @SNForg . Producer of @TheUndocumente3 . TA @media_uoa
