As urban housing vacancy soars in heavily financialized cities across the globe, its detrimental effects—housing crises, interrupted economic cycles, and empty public coffers—are widely felt by residents and city authorities worldwide. This is the case in Beirut where the staggering effects of years of speculative real-estate investments have left Lebanon’s capital in ruin amidst four years of financial meltdown. Despite the evidence of a severe crisis, the absence of data to assess the scale and spread of vacancy limits the possibilities for intervention.
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