Unaffordable cities
A series that looks at the spiraling cost of living in cities around the world, and its effect on the people who live and work in them.
Cheaper cities? Economist index shows cost of urban life is going down
City links: A worldwide cost of living index, a failed ‘smart’ bus service and a new gentrification podcast all feature in this week’s pick of the best city stories
The price of life in Singapore, city of rules: 'It’s a Faustian deal'
Oliver Milman: The south-east Asian city-state has been hailed for its urban policies – and condemned for the authoritarianism that underpins them. So what do Singapore’s residents make of life there?
Aberdeen, the oil city where boom and bust happen at the same time
The city boasts the highest concentration of millionaires in Britain and an unemployment rate of just 2% – but wage inequality and astronomical rents have heightened calls for change
Paris: life in a storage cupboard has never been so expensive
Converted garages, cellars and chambres de bonne are all being rented out illegally in the second most expensive city in the world
Singapore tops world's most expensive cities list for 2014
The families priced out of their London homes by benefit cap
The world's most expensive cities
Unaffordable cities: Tokyo wages create an army of bargain hunters
Unaffordable cities: Singapore workers tread water on millionaires' island
With 17% of city state's residents worth S$1m, those who serve, drive and treat them may as well live on another planet
Affordability is Britons' biggest housing concern, poll finds
Rising house prices used to be considered good news. Not any more
La Torre de David: the vertical slum of Caracas - in pictures
Unaffordable cities: squatting in Caracas's tower of broken dreams
Unaffordable cities: Berlin the renters' haven hit by green fog of eco-scams
The rise of house prices in cities: how has it affected your life?
Unaffordable cities: this criminal lack of housing is a global scandal
