Photo archive | Informal Housing and Property Rights in Eastern Europe and Central Asia

Rakova Jelša gardening site, Ljubljana, Slovenia. © Petra Matijevic

Ust’e. Local residents of the Ust’e settlement in Karelia turned their house into an informal hotel to attract tourists. As the local mining industry is in decline, they try new forms of employment. © Anna Varfolomeeva

The photo was taken in the settlement Ak Zhar, north of Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. © Eliza Isabaeva

Kyrgyzstan © Bermet Zhumakadyr kyzy

Erdenet, Mongolia. © Joseph Bristle

The photo was taken in the settlement Ak Zhar, north of Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. © Eliza Isabaeva

City-Archive of Samarkand (Usbekistan). A resolution of City’s executive committee that deals with cases of unauthorised housing construction© Mariya Petrova

The photo was taken in the settlement Ak Zhar, north of Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. © Eliza Isabaeva

The photo was taken in Gaj village, Serbia. © Jovana Dikovic

The photo was taken in the settlement Ak Zhar, north of Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. © Eliza Isabaeva

Samarkand, Usbekistan. © Mariya Petrova

The photo was taken in the settlement Ak Zhar, north of Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. © Eliza Isabaeva

Kyrgyzstan © Bermet Zhumakadyr kyzy

The photo was taken in the settlement Ak Zhar, north of Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. © Eliza Isabaeva

Scene from the today-non existent Tacheles squat in Berlin. © Grzegorz Piotrowski

Kyrgyzstan © Bermet Zhumakadyr kyzy

Budva, Montenegro. © Sasha Tsenkova

Bathore in Kamza, Albania. © Nebi Bardhoshi

Mária Valéria Informal Shanty Town in Budapest from the 1920-s. Source: www.egykor.hu

The unfinished department store in Kvartsitnyi settlement in Karelia. Its construction stopped in the early 1990s because the local quarry, the main job provider in the settlement, got bankrupt and closed. The never-finished store serves as a reminder of “good old times” for local residents. © Anna Varfolomeeva