Name and Surname
Danilo Ćurčić
Affiliation
A 11 – Initiative for economic and social rights, program coordinator
Contact email
d.curcic@a11initiative.org
Short Biography
Danilo Ćurčić is the program coordinator of the association A 11 – Initiative for Economic and Social Rights, who is particularly interested in issues of economic and social rights. He completed his undergraduate studies at the Faculty of Law at the University of Belgrade, and master’s studies in Economic and Social Law at the University of Essex. Since the academic year 2020/2021, he has been a researcher within the Atlantic Fellowship for Economic and Social Equity at the London School of Economics and Political Science, where he dealt with legal aspects of housing inequalities.
Research abstract
The mass privatization of the housing stock in the nineties, as well as the orientation of housing policy primarily to the creation and support of the development of the housing market, simultaneously reducing investment in affordable and public housing, led to a state of constantly growing housing unaffordability. This housing policy is complemented by other urban development policies, such as public land management or urban planning. Private capital and individual interests have an extremely strong influence on the creation of public policies, and the spatial footprint of such urban development is characterized by growing social, economic and spatial inequalities.
The project “Towards fair housing policies through the interdependence of urban planning and human rights” aims to shed light on the phenomenon of de facto spatial segregation and its impact on access to social and economic rights in Serbia through an interdisciplinary approach. The research will try to formulate criteria for identifying spatial segregation, and then map the policies and measures that affect such a situation and that need to be revised and improved.
In addition to the fact that it is important for us to contribute with this research to the topic of spatial segregation, in all its manifestations and consequences for social and economic inequality, to be more present and discussed in the public sphere, we want to propose in what way and in what cutting-edge sectoral policies we can strive for desegregation .