Lost in Politics

written by Matevž Čelik

 

The latest Ljubljana residential quarter, Zeleni Gaj at Brdo, testifies about the neoliberal transition of public housing construction in Slovenia. The 650-apartment settlement is the largest completed housing project of the State Housing Fund since its establishment and, at the same time, the largest public housing project since the reestablishment of the capitalist economy. The project speaks in its own way of the hopes and aspirations at transforming the economic system from socialist to neoliberal, of the decay of urban planning and of the change in understanding the apartment from a good that everyone is entitled to a prestigious consumer product intended only for the successful ones.