From London to New York, Dublin to Taipei, Lagos to Toronto, Sydney to San Francisco and many more places besides, a comfortable, affordable, secure home is out of reach for much of the population.

Architect Kate Macintosh is known for designing council housing, but in this interview she argues that a better way to address the UK's housing-affordability crisis would be a tax on land values.

We spotlight the city of Barcelona, which is shrugging off the legacy of fascism by rapidly ramping up its supply of social housing.

Dezeen speaks to residents of new council housing in London about what their homes mean to them.

This case study looks at a housing block in Vienna organised around a central "common heart" that harks back to the city's golden age of municipal construction.

Peter Barber's architecture proves that providing social housing at scale without making the design mistakes of the past is eminently possible, writes Owen Hatherley in this opinion piece for Dezeen.

Several council homes on the Stirling Prize-winning Goldsmith Street in Norwich could be sold at a discount just five years after they were built, Dezeen reveals via a Freedom of Information Act request.

Architects with creative flair are needed to overcome stigmas around social housing, urges Polish-American architect Daniel Libeskind.

This case study of Atelier GOM's Shanghai Longnan Garden estate looks at the first social-housing project in China to abandon high-rise.

London-based journalist specialising in social housing Peter Apps calls for a return to mass public house-building in cities around the world.