Priscila Izar

Priscila Izar is an urban studies scholar with empirical and theoretical research interests in the intersection of gender, housing self-building, peripheral urbanisation, and urban policy. Her dissertation, “Housing Provision through Real Estate Development: Adopting Public-Private Partnerships for Affordable Housing Delivery in Brazil”, won the John Browder Award for Best Paper on International Planning and Development at Virginia Tech’s College of Architecture and Urban Studies in 2018. In that research, she highlighted the tension between groundless housing policy goals of enabling private markets and the demands of unhoused low-wage and informal workers struggling for home in the downtown area of São Paulo, Brazil’s most populous and wealthiest city.