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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.
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.
Practitioner Voice

What Makes Rent ‘Fair’

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

Not a single cooperative has left this program since it was introduced more than a century ago, making it possible for generations of families to live securely, and at predictable costs, in housing whose governance they control. How does the program work?