Night view down a dense residential street where apartment windows stack tightly above a narrow roadway.

The Crisis

The housing crisis is not one story

It is a set of conditions — adequacy, affordability, supply, and insecurity — that look different in Lagos than in London, and still share some causes.

The Housing Future Project investigates housing through three questions: how we got here, what the evidence shows now, and where current paths could lead. This section is the spine of that work.

Use the pages below as dossiers, not slogans. Each one will deepen as sourced statistics and original analysis are added.