Introduction

Abstract

The first two decades of the 2000s witnessed events that have had worldwide effects, such as the global financial crisis, the Covid-19 pandemic, and the housing affordability crisis. These developments have deepened the existing social and spatial inequalities, resulting in the transformation of housing policies and the functions and meaning of housing. Although housing policy is path-dependent, countries still have a lot to learn from each other. With this motivation, this study presents the major features of the path that Turkish housing policy has followed since 2000. Housing has become one of the major political, economic, and social issues in Turkey since the early 2000s. This resulted in an extraordinary surge in housing output across the country. The housing boom knows no limits, transforming the country into a construction site and creating a significant amount of surplus stock. The social, spatial, and economic outcomes of these limitless construction processes require investigation. This book aims to fill this research gap. The chapter concludes with an overview of the book's structure.