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Susanne Schindler

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Susanne Schindler is a trained architect and urban historian and a research fellow at Harvard's Joint Center for Housing Studies.
Two green recycling bins on the sidewalk and a gray trash pail by the curb on a residential street. Cars are parked on either side of the trash pail.
From the Field

Tenants’ Rights and Taking Out the Trash

October 7, 2025 | Samuel Stein and Susanne Schindler

A conversation about what it means—or could mean—to have resident control over property management.

View from an upper-story window across the street from two three-story houses seen through the brown leaves of an oak tree. At left is the blue-gray clapboard exterior of the house from which the photo was taken.
From the Field

What Makes Rent ‘Fair’

February 28, 2025 | Susanne Schindler and Samuel Stein

Should monthly charges be pegged to the cost of financing, developing, and operating housing, or to household income? Or are there other ways to design how rent is calculated?

Nonprofits

Why Nonprofit Cooperatives Are Thriving in Zurich

August 12, 2021 | Susanne Schindler

Not a single cooperative has left this Zurich program since it was introduced more than a century ago. How does it work?