Dr Jennifer Duyne Barenstein is a social anthropologist and the executive director of the Centre for Research on Architecture, Society and the Built Environment (Wohnforum) of the ETH Zurich. Her research interests focus on housing policies and on the socioeconomic and institutional dimensions of housing and urban renewal. She recently completed the research project "Tackling the global housing challenges: relevance and replicability of Switzerland's and Uruguay's cooperative housing policies and strategies" supported by the Swiss Network for International Studies (SNIS) and is currently directing the international research project "Negotiating Space for Cooperative Housing in Latin America: The case of post-conflict Colombia and El Salvador" funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF).