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Towards a society of multiple property owners?
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Director of Studies
La Fabrique de la Cité
Vincent Le Rouzic is Director of Studies at La Fabrique de la Cité.
A graduate of Essec and École Normale Supérieure, Vincent Le Rouzic holds a PhD in urban planning and economics from the Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne.
Vincent Le Rouzic has previously worked in the real estate, innovation and research sectors. He was a department manager for three years at the École Normale Supérieure Paris-Saclay. He also spent four years in housing policy consulting. He began his professional career at Bouygues Immobilier working in various agencies (Warsaw, Brussels, and Corporate Real Estate in Ile-de-France).
The author of a PhD thesis on the experimentation of land ownership organizations and the real solidarity lease in France, he is an expert on affordable housing, participatory housing, the right to the city, property and the commons. He is also a specialist in institutional economics, and more particularly in the works of John Commons and Elinor Ostrom. His research work has been distinguished by the Palladio Foundation’s Junior Prize for Real Estate and the Special Prize for Theses on the City from PUCA, the CDC Institute for Research and APERAU.
Vincent Le Rouzic was also president for three years of the Community Land Trust France association and is a director of the UrbaMonde association.
