{"id":686814,"date":"2025-08-23T23:55:14","date_gmt":"2025-08-23T20:55:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/the-ancient-greeks-and-romans-grappled-with-housing-crises-too\/"},"modified":"2025-08-23T23:55:14","modified_gmt":"2025-08-23T20:55:14","slug":"the-ancient-greeks-and-romans-grappled-with-housing-crises-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/the-ancient-greeks-and-romans-grappled-with-housing-crises-too\/","title":{"rendered":"The ancient Greeks and Romans grappled with housing crises, too"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3a9551482d5\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3a9551482d5\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/the-ancient-greeks-and-romans-grappled-with-housing-crises-too\/#A_housing_crisis_is_nothing_new\" >A housing crisis is nothing new<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/the-ancient-greeks-and-romans-grappled-with-housing-crises-too\/#Housing_crises_had_serious_social_consequences\" >Housing crises had serious social consequences<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/the-ancient-greeks-and-romans-grappled-with-housing-crises-too\/#Attempts_to_fix_the_problem\" >Attempts to fix the problem<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/the-ancient-greeks-and-romans-grappled-with-housing-crises-too\/#Location_location\" >Location, location<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-5\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/the-ancient-greeks-and-romans-grappled-with-housing-crises-too\/#Refinancing_and_debt\" >Refinancing and debt<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-6\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/the-ancient-greeks-and-romans-grappled-with-housing-crises-too\/#Lessons_from_the_past\" >Lessons from the past<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"article-gallery lightGallery\">\n<div data-thumb=\"https:\/\/scx1.b-cdn.net\/csz\/news\/tmb\/2025\/ancient-rome-1.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/scx2.b-cdn.net\/gfx\/news\/hires\/2025\/ancient-rome-1.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"Credit: Pixabay\/CC0 Public Domain\">\n<figure class=\"article-img\">\n            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/scx1.b-cdn.net\/csz\/news\/800a\/2025\/ancient-rome-1.jpg\" alt=\"ancient rome\" title=\"Credit: Pixabay\/CC0 Public Domain\" width=\"800\" height=\"530\"\/><figcaption class=\"text-darken text-low-up text-truncate-js text-truncate mt-3\">\n                Credit: Pixabay\/CC0 Public Domain<br \/>\n            <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>In many developed countries, the price of property has risen so high it&#8217;s meant <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2024\/sep\/28\/the-housing-crisis-is-global-what-are-other-countries-doing-about-it\" target=\"_blank\">the dream of home ownership has faded<\/a> for many people. Often, renting isn&#8217;t a much better option, with an undersupply of affordable properties.<\/p>\n<p>This is one of the great issues of our time. But is it a specifically modern problem? Like today, people in ancient times dreamed of having property. The purchase of a house was a source of joy.<\/p>\n<p>But they also had to deal with some strikingly similar difficulties at different points in time over various centuries.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"A_housing_crisis_is_nothing_new\"><\/span>A housing crisis is nothing new<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>In 164 BCE, King Ptolemy of Egypt went into exile and fled to Italy. Disguised as a commoner and accompanied by three slaves, he went to Rome. There, Ptolemy sought out his friend, Demetrius.<\/p>\n<p>When he found him, he was shocked. This friend, who was fairly wealthy in Egypt, was living in poor conditions.<\/p>\n<p>One of the reasons for this, as we are <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.loebclassics.com\/view\/diodorus_siculus-library_history\/1933\/pb_LCL409.361.xml?result=1&amp;rskey=VY5kce\" target=\"_blank\">told<\/a> by the Greek historian <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/biography\/Diodorus-Siculus\" target=\"_blank\">Diodorus Siculus<\/a> (c. 80\u201320 BCE), was that rental properties in Rome had become so expensive: &#8220;Because rents at Rome were so high, Demetrius was living in a small and altogether shabby garret.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Even though Demetrius was well-off, Rome was so costly, he couldn&#8217;t find a decent, affordable rental property.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Housing_crises_had_serious_social_consequences\"><\/span>Housing crises had serious social consequences<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>In the 130s BCE, Rome was in a dire situation. Owing to the greed of wealthy landowners, poorer people were increasingly unable to afford rents or purchase property.<\/p>\n<p>As the Greek writer <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/biography\/Plutarch\" target=\"_blank\">Plutarch<\/a> (c. 46\u2013119 CE) <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.loebclassics.com\/view\/plutarch-lives_tiberius_gaius_gracchus\/1921\/pb_LCL102.161.xml?result=1&amp;rskey=1mp6pc\" target=\"_blank\">tells<\/a> us: &#8220;The rich began to offer larger rents and drove out the poor.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>To try to resolve this problem, Roman politicians decided to create a law &#8220;forbidding the holding by one person of more than five hundred acres of land.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>However, this law did not succeed. The wealthy found ways to evade it by getting middle men to buy property for them.<\/p>\n<p>This failure had serious <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">social<\/a> consequences. As Plutarch <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.loebclassics.com\/view\/plutarch-lives_tiberius_gaius_gracchus\/1921\/pb_LCL102.161.xml?result=1&amp;rskey=1mp6pc\" target=\"_blank\">explains<\/a>: &#8220;The poor, who had been ejected from their land, no longer showed themselves eager for military service, and neglected the bringing up of children.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>As people could no longer afford to live in their own country, many felt they had no stake in the future any more. They lost their desire to fight for the country, or raise future generations.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Attempts_to_fix_the_problem\"><\/span>Attempts to fix the problem<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Over the centuries, ancient rulers also attempted to tackle housing unaffordability in different ways.<\/p>\n<p>One proposal was for the state to offer land for free, on which <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>licants could apply to build homes.<\/p>\n<p>As the Athenian writer <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/biography\/Xenophon\" target=\"_blank\">Xenophon<\/a> (c. 430\u2013350 BCE) <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.loebclassics.com\/view\/xenophon_athens-ways_means\/1925\/pb_LCL183.199.xml?result=1&amp;rskey=5FnfyW\" target=\"_blank\">noted<\/a>: &#8220;If the state allowed approved applicants to erect houses on [vacant sites within the city] and granted them the freehold of the land, I think we should find a larger and better class of persons desiring to live at Athens.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>What if there was no vacant land available for people without access to housing? <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/biography\/Servius-Tullius\" target=\"_blank\">Servius Tullius<\/a>, king of Rome in the 6th century BCE, offers an example of another possible (and perhaps familiar sounding) solution\u2014urban sprawl.<\/p>\n<p>According to the historian <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/biography\/Dionysius-of-Halicarnassus\" target=\"_blank\">Dionysius of Halicarnassus<\/a> (writing in the 1st century BCE), Servius <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.loebclassics.com\/view\/dionysius_halicarnassus-roman_antiquities\/1937\/pb_LCL347.309.xml?mainRsKey=8H4dRE&amp;result=2&amp;rskey=9lb1WW\" target=\"_blank\">expanded the size of the city<\/a> and made new land free to build on.<\/p>\n<p>This would house Romans who &#8220;had no homes of their own.&#8221; This solution seems to have worked and expanded the size of the city greatly.<\/p>\n<div class=\"ads w-100 my-4 article-main__more bg-light p-3 border\" aria-hidden=\"true\">\n<p class=\"mb-3\">\n        Discover the latest in <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/sciencee\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"5\" title=\"Science\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">science<\/a>, tech, and space with over <strong>100,000 subscribers<\/strong> who rely on Phys.org for daily insights.<br \/>\n        Sign up for our <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sciencex.com\/help\/newsletter\/\" target=\"_blank\">free newsletter<\/a> and get updates on breakthroughs,<br \/>\n        innovations, and research that matter\u2014<strong>daily or weekly<\/strong>.\n    <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Location_location\"><\/span>Location, location<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>People in ancient times also understood that location was everything. They knew that if they moved from a big city to a rural area, property would be more affordable.<\/p>\n<p>For example, the Roman poet <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/biography\/Juvenal\" target=\"_blank\">Juvenal<\/a> (c. 55\u2013127 CE) <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.loebclassics.com\/view\/juvenal-satires\/2004\/pb_LCL091.185.xml?rskey=mQTIXr&amp;result=1&amp;mainRsKey=gCakqi\" target=\"_blank\">observed<\/a> that for the same amount you&#8217;d pay in yearly rent in Rome: &#8220;An excellent house at Sora or Fabrateria or Frusino can be bought outright [\u2026] Here you&#8217;ll have a little garden [\u2026] Live in love with your hoe as the overseer of your vegetable garden [\u2026].&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Of course, the difficulty was finding an income far from the city. For most people, that was not possible.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Refinancing_and_debt\"><\/span>Refinancing and debt<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>If people had no money but had property without a current mortgage, they could refinance their property to get a loan. As one anonymous ancient commentator <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.loebclassics.com\/view\/cratinus-testimonia_fragments\/2011\/pb_LCL513.311.xml?rskey=lDuTfa&amp;result=1&amp;mainRsKey=uc5XjH\" target=\"_blank\">wrote<\/a> about the custom of the Athenians: &#8220;People who were in debt would mortgage their houses and have notices written on them so it would be known that they were in debt.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The long-lived comic poet <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/biography\/Alexis-Greek-writer\" target=\"_blank\">Alexis<\/a> (c. 375\u2013275 BCE), joked about this practice. A character in his play The Greek Girl <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.loebclassics.com\/view\/atheneus_grammarian-learned_banqueters\/2007\/pb_LCL224.27.xml?mainRsKey=IKk7Sc&amp;result=1&amp;rskey=GAdDCO\" target=\"_blank\">quips<\/a> about having &#8220;to mortgage all our property&#8221; to buy expensive fish for dinner.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Lessons_from_the_past\"><\/span>Lessons from the past<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>The Roman politician <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/biography\/Tiberius-Sempronius-Gracchus\" target=\"_blank\">Tiberius Gracchus<\/a> (c. 169\u2013133 BCE) offered a powerful piece of rhetoric about the housing crisis of his time. Referring to displaced citizens, he <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.loebclassics.com\/view\/plutarch-lives_tiberius_gaius_gracchus\/1921\/pb_LCL102.167.xml?result=1&amp;rskey=pJwIfx\" target=\"_blank\">said<\/a> that:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The wild beasts that roam over Italy have every one of them a cave or lair to lurk in; but the men who fight and die for Italy enjoy the common air and light, indeed, but nothing else. Houseless and homeless they wander about with their wives and children [\u2026] they have not a single clod of earth that is their own.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Today, we might live in a very different world, but looking to history shows us access to housing and social cohesion have long been closely linked.<\/p>\n<div class=\"d-inline-block text-medium mt-4\">\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tProvided by<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tThe Conversation<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"icon_open\" href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<svg>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<use href=\"https:\/\/phys.b-cdn.net\/tmpl\/v6\/img\/svg\/sprite.svg#icon_open\" x=\"0\" y=\"0\"\/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/svg><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p class=\"article-main__note mt-4\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t  This article is republished from <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\" target=\"_blank\">The Conversation<\/a> under a Creative Commons license. 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